Module 6.1 Flashcards
This may be done through depositing cash into different accounts; multiple cash deposits of smaller amounts; buying monetary instruments and financial products; and/or international fund transfers.
Placement
involves separating the illicit proceeds from their source by creating complex layers of financial transactions designed to disguise the audit trail and provide anonymity or to obscure the source of the funds.
Layering
provides appearance of legitimacy to criminally-derived wealth
Integration
T or F. Laundering only involve money derived from a crime.
F. Laundering does not have to involve money at all, since the proceeds to be laundered can involve any sort of tangible or intangible property derived from crime.
this must be exercised to prevent the use of SEC covered institutions as instruments for money laundering.
Due diligence
are aimed at identifying personal customers and the ultimate beneficial ownership of corporate customers, monitoring transactions, keeping good records and reporting suspicions to the authorities.
anti-money laundering (AML) laws
set out a comprehensive and consistent framework of measures which countries should implement in order to combat money laundering and terrorist financing, as well as the financing of proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
FATF Recommendations
The key aspects of the revised FATF Recommendations are:
- global recognition of the risk-based approach to AML and terrorist finance;
- further focus on ultimate beneficial ownership of companies and other entities;
- inclusion of compliance with international sanctions and counter-proliferation measures as global standards;
- revised definition of PEPs to include domestic PEPs (the previous definition only included foreign PEPs);
- inclusion of tax crimes as predicate offences of money laundering; and
- prevention of abuse of non-profit organizations.
“to reduce the vulnerability of the financial system to money laundering by ensuring that all financial centres adopt and implement measures for the prevention, detection and punishment of money laundering according to internationally recognised standards”.
Non-Cooperative Countries and Territories (NCCT) initiative
objective
is a peer review of each member conducted by the FATF on an ongoing basis to assess levels of implementation of the FATF Recommendations, providing an in-depth description and analysis of each country’s system for preventing criminal abuse of the financial system
Mutual Evaluation
You are an investment manager in an investment firm. You have a client on whom your firm’s due diligence has been satisfactorily carried out. They transfer funds to their account with you, from another institution. A few days later the client advises that they wish to cash in their investment, even though they will suffer a loss, and that they wish to transfer the funds to another institution. You report your concerns to your Compliance Office. Which of the stages of money laundering is this potentially an example of?
- Layering
- Placement
- Integration
- Layering
salient features of AMLA
- Criminalizes money laundering.
- Identifies and defines predicate offenses to money laundering.
- Imposes preventive measures to be undertaken by covered persons/institutions. (customer due diligence, record keeping and transaction reporting).
- Created a financial intelligence unit, the AMLC, empowering the same to recover criminal proceeds and prosecute money launderers.
- Authorizes international and domestic cooperation.
- Requires covered persons to properly identify their customers, keep records and report covered and suspicious transactions.
Which of the following is a covered person/institution supervised or regulated by the SEC?
A. Pre-need companies
B. Investment advisor, agent or consultant
C. Issuer of proprietary or non-proprietary shares
B. Investment advisor, agent or consultant
measures of the covered institution should include conducting continuing due diligence on the business relationship to ensure that the transactions being conducted are consistent with the covered institution’s knowledge of the customer and/or beneficial owner, their business profile, including, where necessary, the source of its funds.
“Know your customer” (KYC)
Covered institutions shall ensure that business is conducted in conformity with high ethical standards, that laws and regulations are adhered to, and that service is not provided where there is good reason to believe that transactions are associated with money laundering activities.
Compliance with Laws.
Covered institutions shall cooperate fully with law enforcement agencies. Disclosure of information by covered institutions for the purpose of the AMLA regarding covered transactions and suspicious transactions shall be made to the AMLC.
Cooperation with the Law Enforcement Agencies.
Each covered institution shall adopt policies consistent with the principles set out in the guidelines, and ensure that its directors, officers and employees wherever located are informed of these policies and adequately trained in matters covered herein.
Policies, Procedures and Training.
True or False? Submission of MLPP constitutes substantial compliance of covered persons/institutions with SEC Memorandum Circular No. 2, series of 2010.
FALSE
refers to the procedure of identifying and verifying the true identity, of customers, and their agents and beneficial owners, including understanding and monitoring of their transactions and activities
Customer Due Diligence (CDD)
objective of customer due diligence (CDD)
is to gain a holistic understanding of a client, including their risk profile.
Customer Identification
- Customer Identification Process (CIP)
- Customer Verification Process (CVP)
- Customer Information and Identification Documents
- Presentation of Original Identification Documents
- Additional or Further Verification Measures
- Identify the Source of a Customer’s Assets
- Updating Client Information
- Unusual Transactions
refers to the process of determining the identity of the customer vis à-vis the valid and acceptable identification document submitted to, and/or presented before, the covered person
Customer Identification Process (CIP)
refers to the process of validating the truthfulness of the information, and confirming the authenticity of the identification documents, presented, submitted and provided by the customer; or other ways of verifying the identity and assessing the risk profile of customers, and their agents and beneficial owners, through the use of reliable and independent sources, documents, data or information
Customer Verification Process (CVP)
Covered institutions shall obtain and record competent evidence of the true and full identity, representative capacity, domicile, legal capacity, occupation or business purposes of clients, as well as other identifying information on those clients, whether they be occasional or usual, through the use of documents
Customer Information and Identification Documents.
Covered institutions shall request individual clients who present only photocopies of identification card and other documents to produce the original documents thereof for verification purposes
Presentation of Original Identification Documents
Clients should be made aware of the covered institutions’ explicit policy that business transactions will not be conducted with applicants who fail to provide competent evidence of their identity, but without derogating from the covered institutions’ obligation to report suspicious transactions.
Additional or Further Verification Measures
refers to any natural person who:
a. ultimately owns or controls the customer and/or on whose behalf a transaction or activity is being conducted; or
b. has ultimate effective control over customer that is a legal person or arrangement.
Beneficial Owner
shall refer to express trusts or other similar legal arrangements.
Legal Arrangements