Introduction
Today, multiple stakeholders collect and verify similar customer data independently, leading to inefficiencies, inconsistent standards, fragmented customer experiences, and elevated operational costs. In response these challenges, Avanza has developed a National eKYC Platform, built on a private, permissioned blockchain infrastructure, ensuring secure standardization and seamless data sharing across the ecosystem, with full customer consent and control.
AVANZA’s National eKYC Platform – Consonance, was designed in response to a key industry challenge: compliance remains a major burden for financial institutions and regulators across many regions. Today, multiple stakeholders collect and verify similar customer data independently, leading to inefficiencies, inconsistent standards, fragmented customer experiences, and elevated operational costs.
AVANZA’s eKYC-as-a-Service platform addresses these challenges by enabling the harmonization of KYC processes across participating institutions. Built on a private, permissioned blockchain infrastructure, the platform ensures secure standardization and seamless data sharing across the ecosystem, with full customer consent and control.
BIRGER., in collaboration with the Seychelles Banking Association and Avanza, is organising a workshop aimed at presenting the eKYC as-a-service platform.
Date: Friday 8 May 2026
Time: 08:30 am to 10:30 am
Venue: L'Escale Resort, Mahé
Looking forward to welcoming you.
Teams
BIRGER.
Jacques Harel
Chief Executive Officer
Jacques is the Chief Executive Officer of BIRGER. since April 2007, a technology company operating in the Indian Ocean region and East Africa.
He has worked several years for De Chazal du Mée, Chartered Accountants, gaining expertise in various economic sectors.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Business Studies, University of Westminster, London and is a Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) – ACA, Corporate Finance.