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AML Compliance

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What is AML?

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What is AML Compliance?

An AML compliance program helps organizations like financial institutions, money-service businesses and insurance companies monitor transactions to uncover suspicious and potentially criminal behavior, like money laundering or terrorism financing.

An AML program consists of the following:

  • Know Your Customer (KYC) procedures
  • Risk-based AML policies
  • Ongoing risk assessment and ongoing monitoring
  • AML compliance training programs for staff
  • Internal controls and internal audits

But it can be difficult, if not impossible, to maintain AML compliance manually and meet your AML program requirements in a given jurisdiction. There are so many stops along the customer journey that creating compliance checks at each stage would create a clunky user experience.

Jumio streamlines the process by automatically identifying and screening your customers, during onboarding and beyond.

AML Compliance is More Than Just KYC

Many financial institutions often blur the lines between KYC processes and AML practice, and as a result incur regulatory fines.

Know Your Customer (KYC) is primarily the identity verification process. Its principal purpose is to better understand your customers and their financial dealings, thus managing risks efficiently.

Two important KYC processes include:

Generally, customers who are classified under the high risk category after CDD are prone to money laundering and financing of terrorism. Hence they are regulated and monitored as per stipulated norms. EDD procedures can include verifying politically exposed persons (PEP) and adverse media that puts them at higher risk. 

After customers are onboarded, companies must perform ongoing monitoring to ensure their customers are still suitable to do business with.

Regulators confirm whether organizations are complying with regulatory AML rules. These safeguards help to detect suspicious transactions like money laundering and terrorist financing. 

AML Compliance and Your Identity Verification Process

Online identity verification is the starting point for AML compliance in the digital world. If the EU’s Sixth Anti-Money Laundering Directive is any indication, governing bodies are becoming more comfortable with, and some would suggest even encouraging of, the use of digital customer identity verification.

The European Commission recognizes,

“Accurate identification and verification of data of natural and legal persons is essential for fighting money laundering or terrorist financing. Latest technical developments in the digitalization of transactions and payments enable a secure remote or electronic identification.”

According to Gov.UK, organizations must perform due diligence by carrying out checks on their business and customers, and maintain records to help prevent money laundering. Customer due diligence works hand in hand with customer identification programs (CIPs). It is a financial organization’s responsibility to check and verify who a customer is. In practice, this means obtaining a customer’s name, photograph on an official document that confirms their identity, residential address and date of birth. The best way to do this is to ask for a government-issued document like a passport, along with utility bills, bank statements and other official documents.

AML and KYC go hand in hand when it comes to the role of online identity verification.

To help meet your AML compliance obligations, look for a solution that offers these features and benefits:

  • Convenience for customers
  • A high level of assurance that your customers are who they say they are
  • Mobile and web-enabled, leveraging on-device technology, biometrics (such as facial recognition with liveness detection), compliant machine learning, and identity experts
  • Extra layer of assurance through document verification to help establish proof of address by extracting data from bank statements or utility bills

How Jumio Can Help

Jumio provides an end-to-end platform that helps you meet your regulatory obligations and mitigate AML risk throughout the customer journey, from onboarding to ongoing monitoring.

  • Jumio Identity Verification automates the online identity verification process to ensure the person is who they say they are while providing a frictionless onboarding experience.
  • Jumio Screening lets you adopt a risk-based approach by screening your customers against PEPs, sanctions, adverse media and other watchlists
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