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Know your customer is a regulatory process that identifies and verifies the customer and associated parties during onboarding, periodic reviews, and offboarding.
Understand how KYC's customer due diligence evaluates documents, assigns risk (low, medium, high), and applies enhanced due diligence for high-risk clients.
Identify and verify client identities in a KYC review by distinguishing identification from verification, using public sources for identification and official documents for verification, guided by the ID&V matrix.
Identify and verify a company’s day-to-day business activities as the main source of funds for KYC risk assessment, using the commercial register and official documents, supported by transaction monitoring.
Explain source of wealth as the initial injection from clients, its verification in KYC profiles, and how corporate and individual wealth sources are described during onboarding and risk-based assessments.
Explore related parties in KYC, focusing on intermediate beneficial owners and corporate directors; learn to identify full names and the list of directors, using Belgium registry examples.
Explore the certificate of incumbency, a client-issued list of directors and officers, and note it's not a primary document for verifying existence; use registry or articles of association for existence.
Understand sole trader status, or sole proprietorship, where the owner has no separate legal personality. Liquidation risks the owner's personal assets; KYC can complete in one to two days.
Discover how KYC screening checks clients and associated parties against sanction lists and negative news, assessing PEP exposure and guiding compliance decisions.
Explore how political exposed persons (peps) create KYC/AML risk, define pep and pep associate, and explain ed reviews, source of wealth, and management approvals to mitigate risk.
Explore risk assessment in KYC, the final stage that scores low, medium, or high risk using factors from products, customers, and geographic location, guiding UBO rules and reviews.
Establish an AML framework with policies and procedures, a risk-based KYC program, and continuous training, monitoring, and audits; coordinate makers, checkers, and SMEs across the lines of defense.
Understand the compliance organizational chart for KYC and AML, from analysts to the chief compliance officer. Learn how reporting lines adapt to company size and multi jurisdiction environments.
Understand the KYC analyst role within a multi-tier compliance structure, including reporting to managers, end-of-day deliverables, QC scoring, and pathways from junior to senior levels.
Discover how a quality control analyst reviews KYC profiles for completeness and correctness, using makers and checkers and policy-aligned scoring.
Update - Jan/2025
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Contents:-
Course has total of 10 sections we discuss the following items.
· Know your customer definition and difference between EDD, CDD and EKYC,
· Identification and verification requirements for main client and associated parties and required documents for each party.
· Third party approved source and how to use them in your KYC review.
· Identification of nature of business, relation with source of fund and requirements for a completed description of nature of business.
· Source of fund and Wealth and difference between them and which documents to request from client to verify these requirement.
· Ownership Types and how to deal with them and ID&V for UBOs (One type is being discussed).
· Screening and the importance in detecting negative news and black list names, Sanction and countries to look for when conducting CDD review,
· Definition of PEP and type of review that would be required for such person,
· Client legal types such as sole trader from perspective of definition and requirement for ID&V. (One type is being discussed).
· Red flags and how they increase the risk rating of the profile and finally we go through. (One type is being discussed).
· The Risk Assessment and assigning a proper risk rating for clients.
· Introduction to AML, where we discuss basic AML definitions to assist in understanding three stages of Money Laundering.
· The AML Org Chart and the role of KYC analyst inside the organization, alongside the quality checker position and their position within the hierarchy.
Additional bonus:-
Knowledge test to assess understanding of topics discussed and provided with explanation.
External Assignment.
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