Steps to Achieve the Know Your Customer Compliance
Effective KYC involves knowing your customers'customers' identities, financial activities, and the risks they pose. Do you know your customers? At least, that's how it should be. If you are a financial institution (FI) that promotes money laundering or terrorist financing, you may be subject to fines, penalties, and defamation. Most importantly, KYC is a key practice that protects organizations from fraud and losses resulting from illicit funds and transactions. "KYC" refers to the steps a financial institution (or company) takes to: customer identification Understand the nature of your business (The main purpose is to ensure that the client's source of funds is legitimate.) To monitor the activities of our customers, we assess the money laundering risk associated with these customers. Creating and implementing an effective KYC program requires the following elements: 1) Customer Identification Program (CIP) How do you know if someone is who they say they a