Open adamdecaf opened 5 years ago
In July 2016, FinCEN enacted new rules regarding beneficial ownership:[2] Financial institutions must collect from the legal entity customer the name, date of birth, address, and social security number or other government identification number (passport number or other similar information in the case of foreign persons) Customer Identification Program
We store and encrypt the SSN when creating a customer.
There's a government service that might let us validate the SSN in code. https://www.ssa.gov/employer/ssnv.htm
CIP is an enhancement over KYC for customer verification and identification by including the Social Social Number to run a credit check and further affirm a legitimate authorized customer in our system.
Notes: https://github.com/moov-io/customers/issues/9