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Rabobank, one of the world's leading food and agriculture banks, is leveraging Camunda, a workflow and decision automation platform, to enhance its Financial Economic Crime (FEC) operations. This strategic partnership aims to automate and orchestrate key processes such as transaction monitoring, customer due diligence (CDD), and real-time sanction screening.
Transaction Monitoring and CDD
In the realm of transaction monitoring, Camunda automates the workflow involved in detecting suspicious activity. It orchestrates the steps from alert detection, case assignment, investigation guidance, and documentation capture. By automating these workflows, Rabobank ensures consistent handling of alerts, faster case resolution, and improved compliance with regulatory requirements.
For customer due diligence (CDD), Camunda manages the complex workflows that involve data collection, risk assessment, and approval processes. It allows Rabobank to automate the triggering of enhanced due diligence for higher-risk customers and streamline the periodic review cycles. This automation ensures systematic execution of all steps in the due diligence process with clear audit trails and decision points, reducing manual errors and increasing operational efficiency.
Real-Time Sanction Screening
Camunda also plays a crucial role in Rabobank's real-time sanction screening. It automates the screening of transactions and customers against updated sanction lists, handling automated flagging of hits, triggering immediate investigations, and facilitating rapid decision-making to comply with sanction regulations. This real-time capability enhances Rabobank’s ability to rapidly detect and act on potential sanctions violations, lowering risk and ensuring compliance.
Overall Benefits
The implementation of Camunda at Rabobank has led to significant improvements. It enables end-to-end automation of FEC processes, reducing manual workload and operational bottlenecks. The platform’s ability to model, execute, and monitor workflows provides Rabobank with transparency into FEC operations and measurable compliance improvements. By scaling these automation processes, Rabobank can handle increasing volumes of transactions and customer data without compromising speed or compliance standards.
The Future of Rabobank's FEC Operations
Rabobank's use of Camunda is not limited to its current applications. The bank is evaluating Camunda as the orchestration layer for a new customer risk rating engine. The new FEC platform is intended to scale with Rabobank's needs and stay ahead of financial crime.
CamundaCon 2025 took place in Amsterdam, where Rabobank showcased its successful implementation of Camunda's Self-Managed platform. The bank's use of Camunda has created a single orchestration layer that connects four key systems involved in CDD and fraud detection. In the last cycle, 56,000 signals related to Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) were processed, flagging 1,609 customers.
The bank is highly regulated by the Dutch National Bank, requiring compliance and detection of financial crime at scale. Before Camunda, Rabobank's FEC workflows were isolated across a few different platforms. Now, with Camunda, analysts at Rabobank now spend three times less effort per case.
Moreover, Rabobank is working to combat the estimated €16 billion in money laundering that occurs annually in the Netherlands, much of it tied to drug trafficking and fraud. Camunda's orchestrated workflow at Rabobank improves response times, reduces manual effort, and streamlines operations. The bank's customer service and dedicated support from Camunda have contributed to the smooth implementation of Rabobank's orchestration efforts.
In summary, Rabobank’s use of Camunda helps the bank streamline financial crime investigations, increase operational efficiency, and maintain regulatory compliance across transaction monitoring, customer due diligence, and sanction screening processes.
In the intersection of business and technology, Camunda's automation platform is being utilized by Rabobank to streamline its Sanction Screening processes, ensuring real-time detection and compliance with sanction regulations. This technology-driven approach also extends to the enhancement of the bank's Finance operations with the automation of Transaction Monitoring and Customer Due Diligence (CDD) processes.
Building on this tech-oriented strategy, Rabobank plans to leverage Camunda further for the development of a new customer risk rating engine, aiming to integrate, scale, and future-proof its Financial Economic Crime (FEC) operations.
