{"id":12957,"date":"2016-12-27T08:05:39","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T08:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indiaforensic.com\/certifications\/?p=5279"},"modified":"2019-06-04T10:43:55","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T10:43:55","slug":"classification-high-risk-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiaforensic.com\/certifications\/classification-high-risk-customers\/","title":{"rendered":"Classification of High Risk Customers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regulated financial institutions are required to take a risk-based approach to customer due diligence and ongoing monitoring under the Money Laundering Regulations. Customer relationship pose money laundering and terrorist financing risk before the regulated financial institutions.<\/p>\n<p>Classification of the customers is done under three risk categories viz. low, medium and high. Customer\u2019s identity, Social\/financial status, Nature of business activity, Information about the client\u2019s business and their location etc. are some of the parameters in the risk assessment strategy of the financial institutions.<\/p>\n<p>Higher Risk Customers are those who are engaged in certain professions or avail the banking products and services where money laundering possibilities are high. Financial Institutions conduct enhanced due diligence (EDD) and ongoing monitoring for the higher risk customers.<\/p>\n<h2>Classification of High Risk Customers<\/h2>\n<p>Customer Identification situations that present a higher money-laundering risk might include, but are not restricted to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Customers linked to<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/indiaforensic.com\/dealing-with-customers-from-high-risk-countries\/\">higher-risk countries <\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Customers from <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indiaforensic.com\/high-risk-business-sector-real-estate\/\">High Risk Business sectors<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Customers who have unnecessarily complex or opaque <a href=\"https:\/\/indiaforensic.com\/identifying-the-ultimate-beneficial-owners\/\"><strong>beneficial ownership<\/strong><\/a> structures<\/li>\n<li>Unusual account activity<\/li>\n<li>Lack an obvious economic or lawful purpose<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indiaforensic.com\/heightened-risk-individuals-politically-exposed-persons\/\">Politically Exposed<\/a><\/strong> Persons (PEPs)\n<ul>\n<li>Customers who are close relatives of PEPs<\/li>\n<li>Entities whose ultimate beneficial owner is a Politically Exposed Person.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Customers with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indiaforensic.com\/adverse-media-information-on-high-risk-customers\/\">dubious reputation<\/a><\/strong> as per public information available<\/li>\n<li>Accounts of non- face- to- face- customers etc.<\/li>\n<li>Non- resident Customers doing business in India<\/li>\n<li>Accounts of Cash intensive business such as accounts of Bullion dealers, jewellers, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indiaforensic.com\/video-learning\/laundering-real-estate\/\">real estate developers<\/a><\/strong> etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>High risk customers are identified from the customer base and are monitored perpetually for the potentially suspicious activities in their accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Riskpro, which is a leading company in the domain of intelligence-as-service offers the inputs which are useful for the monitoring systems of the banks. It has created risk management framework which helps the banks in assessing the customer risk. Though Riskpro is largely India focussed it helps the global players to understand the local market reputation of the high risk customers.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regulated financial institutions are required to take a risk-based approach to customer due diligence and ongoing monitoring under the Money Laundering Regulations. Customer relationship pose money laundering and terrorist financing risk before the regulated financial institutions. Classification of the customers is done under three risk categories viz. low, medium and high. Customer\u2019s identity, Social\/financial status, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":12982,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[461,462],"class_list":["post-12957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kyc","tag-heightened-risk","tag-high-risk-customers"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Classification of Highetened Risk Individuals and Entities<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Financial Institutions should know the classification of Highetened Risk Individuals and Entities to effectively manage their reputation risk\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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