What is KYC? Know Your Customer is the identity-check process serious investment platforms use before they let you fund and trade. You prove who you are. The firm meets industry standards on fraud and financial crime. It is inconvenient for five minutes and protective for years.
What you usually submit
Government ID, a selfie or liveness check, and sometimes proof of address. Details must match. Using someone else’s documents is how accounts get shut.
Why it exists
To make it harder to open accounts for crime, to protect other clients, and to meet legal duties. Platforms that skip this are not doing you a favour.
What it unlocks
Deposits, withdrawals and live trading typically wait on approval. If you skip KYC, you do not have an investment account. You have a form.
Privacy common sense
Upload through the real site. Do not send ID photos to a stranger on a messaging app who claims to be “compliance”.
KYC and a multi-asset account
Complete the check once, then use stocks, crypto and metals under the same verified profile. That is the point of a platform like Orizon Invest.
