With which person(s) should an anti-money laundering officer coordinate when implementing a new hire screening program?
What is an essential element of Know Your Customer (KYC) standards according to the Basel Committee's Customer Due Diligence for Banks paper?
An anti-money laundering specialist at a financial institution has received a legal request to provide all transaction records for a specific individual since 2004. Which of the following item s should be delivered?
A money transmitter's nation-wide agent network remits funds to a country in Africa on behalf of an immigrant community based in the United States. A terrorist group is known to operate openly in this African country. In reviewing transaction records, the compliance officer detects a pattern where two customers together visit the same agent each week and remit the same amount of funds. $2,500, to the same recipient in the country in Africa.
What should alert the compliance officer to possible money laundering or terrorist financing activity by the two customers?
A bank in an offshore jurisdiction approaches an institution about opening a new correspondent banking relationship. Prior to opening the account, the new account representative obtains copies of the offshore bank's anti-money laundering policies and procedures, and all appropriate legal documentation for the bank; ascertains no third parties will be able to access the accounts; and determines the owners of the bank, the bank's primary business activities, and the business address of the bank. Which of the following steps does the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision's Customer Due Diligence for Banks Paper recommend the banker take prior to opening Oils correspondent account?
1. Conduct a site visit and meet all the principals and beneficial owners in person.
2. Verify the bank has a physical presence in the country where it is incorporated.
3. Confirm the bank is subject to regulatory supervision with adequate anti-money laundering laws.
4. Obtain and maintain a complete listing of the correspondent bank's customers, including politically exposed persons.
