KYC vs ID verification: the same software, for different reasons

The first time I watched the compliance team and the fraud team at the same company argue over which vendor to pick, I thought they were arguing about the wrong thing. They agreed on the shortlist. They’d sat through the demos together. What they couldn’t agree on was what the product was for. KYC software and ID verification software look identical from the outside. They check a document. They check a face. They return a signal. They log it. When you shortlist for one, the same ten vendors show