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Kawaguchi Shinkin Bank begins a demonstration project using “Grid Data KYC,” an identity verification service that uses electricity contract information

Kawaguchi Shinkin Bank has begun a pilot study using CAULIS's "Grid Data KYC" identity verification service to verify customers' actual residence and identity information based on electricity contract information. The study will assess whether ongoing customer due diligence can be made more efficient and sophisticated in place of postal mail.

Worth reading
71In focus
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Direction
Improvement
Direction inferred from the company’s description.
Scale
80000000
Households (electricity contract information used by Grid Data KYC)
Wording
Conditional
How definitive the wording is.

Announced details

Grid Data KYC
Applicable field (uses covered by this announcement)

Ongoing customer due diligence by financial institutions; anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CFT); prevention of fraudulent account opening

Launch date3 August 2026 (pilot study began; actual)
What the company reported numerically
Usage history

Uses electricity contract information for approximately 80 million households (size of the information covered by the service; not the number of implementations)

Relationship between the counterparty and the company
Caulis Inc.153A
Relationship with the Company

Kawaguchi Shinkin Bank is participating in the pilot study using a service provided by CAULIS. Capital and personnel ties: not disclosed.

CounterpartyKawaguchi Shinkin Bank

Head office: Kawaguchi, Saitama Prefecture; President: Iida Masahiro (飯田 雅弘). Shinkin bank. Other attributes: not disclosed.

Location (as indicated in this announcement)

Uses electricity contract information for approximately 80 million households

In this announcement the company addresses none of Contract Value / Offering price / Impact on Business Performance.

Source (materials cited by the company)

The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry’s “Gray Zone Elimination System”

Announced details
ItemDetails
Names of Products / Services CoveredGrid Data KYC
CounterpartyKawaguchi Shinkin Bank
Counterparty overviewHead office: Kawaguchi, Saitama Prefecture; President: Iida Masahiro (飯田 雅弘). Shinkin bank. Other attributes: not disclosed.
Relationship with the CompanyKawaguchi Shinkin Bank is participating in the pilot study using a service provided by CAULIS. Capital and personnel ties: not disclosed.
Launch date3 August 2026 (pilot study began; actual)
Applicable areaOngoing customer due diligence by financial institutions; anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CFT); prevention of fraudulent account opening
Location scaleUses electricity contract information for approximately 80 million households
Usage historyUses electricity contract information for approximately 80 million households (size of the information covered by the service; not the number of implementations)
SourceThe Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry’s “Gray Zone Elimination System”
Items this document does not state (9)
Contract ValueOffering priceContract DateAward/certification nameAwarding / certifying bodyRegistration number and expiry dateLocationQuantitative EffectsImpact on Business Performance

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The reasons the company gives

The company's own explanation, not something inferred from the numbers.

To reduce declining response rates to postal requests, rising mailing costs, the risk of misdelivery, the workload of financial institutions and the burden on customers in connection with periodic customer information checks required for AML/CFT measures, and to make ongoing customer due diligence more efficient and sophisticated.

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