Example: Investment Knowledge and Suitability Assessment (MiFID II)
1. Guiding the customer into the correct assessment path
1. Guiding the customer into the correct assessment path
The flow begins by asking whether the customer wants to complete a knowledge and experience check or a risk appetite assessment. A central routing logic ensures the customer completes all required sections based on their choices. This structure makes it easy to handle mandatory regulatory checks without overwhelming the user.
2. Assessing knowledge and experience for appropriateness
2. Assessing knowledge and experience for appropriateness
To determine whether the customer understands specific financial instruments, the flow asks a series of concise and clear questions.For listed shares and subscription rights, the flow checks:
- Trading experience
- Understanding of co ownership
- Bankruptcy and loss risks
- Price fluctuation awareness
3. Evaluating risk appetite and suitability
3. Evaluating risk appetite and suitability
If the customer chooses to assess risk appetite, the flow presents eight questions covering investment priorities, behavioral tendencies, loss tolerance, emotional responses to volatility, and self perception of risk taking.These responses are converted into a numerical risk score, which is then categorized into low, medium, or high risk tolerance. This allows institutions to match customers with suitable investment products while meeting MiFID II suitability obligations.
4. Applying approval logic and ensuring correct outcomes
4. Applying approval logic and ensuring correct outcomes
Once the assessments are complete, the flow uses decision logic to determine whether each product type can be approved.
- Customers who pass the knowledge checks receive an approval message.
- Customers who do not meet the requirements receive a clear explanation and are advised to seek guidance or complete basic investment education.
5. Ensuring full auditability and compliance tracking
5. Ensuring full auditability and compliance tracking
Every question, response, calculation, and decision point is logged automatically. This creates an audit ready record that helps compliance teams demonstrate how suitability and appropriateness were assessed. It also ensures that no step is skipped, because the routing logic prevents customers from proceeding without completing mandatory checks.
6. Completing the flow and continuing the customer journey
6. Completing the flow and continuing the customer journey
The assessment ends with a summary and directs the customer to continue to the investments page or next steps in the platform. Regardless of outcome, the institution has a complete and compliant dataset for further review or onboarding.

