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Customer due diligence

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Keep your business moving and onboard clients quickly without having to compromise your CDD obligations.

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Data at your fingertips

Centralised record keeping and data management systems means your customer due diligence documentation is securely kept in one place, which is easy to access, at any time, from anywhere in the world.

Live data

Experience seamless customer onboarding with our dynamic checklists. Constantly updated, you can trust that you’re using the freshest data reflecting every regulatory shift. Our risk-based approach ensures that ongoing client checks are always based on the most up-to-date information.

Automated alerts

Take the hard work out of remembering when important due diligence checks are required using our alert systems. Set notifications for when PEP and sanctions need to be run, and when to review the risk rating of individual clients.

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Create a better experience for your customers, minimise risk, and reclaim time so you can focus on your core business.

Customer due diligence and AML compliance

Customised solutions

We provide custom-built CDD online submission processes designed to perfectly fit your industry’s unique needs, and work within your risk and compliance framework to reflect your brand’s identity.

Streamline processes

We can help create and manage designated business groups (DBGs) so you can share the burden of key AML processes, such as compliance programmes, record keeping and customer due diligence.

Help when you need it

Use our self-service tool to carry out due diligence checks yourself with instant results, or save time and mitigate risk with our fully outsourced, or partly outsourced services.

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More about customer due diligence

CDD is required when a business that is covered by AML regulations starts a business relationship with a customer or potential customer. It’s also required if their relationship with an existing customer ‘materially changes’ and  they need to re-verify a customer identity and risk profile.

Simplified CDD 

Simplified customer due diligence is relevant for customers who are already subject to transparency and public disclosure. These are prescribed entities. In New Zealand they are identified in section 18(2) of the AML/CFT Act and include government entities, local authorities or public service agencies.

Standard CDD

Standard CDD is the process entities must follow to confirm the identity of customers and ensure the personal data they have provided is genuine. In New Zealand CDD must take place when a cash transaction, or series of related cash
transactions, exceeds $10,000. If your customer is a trust, this triggers a need for enhanced customer due diligence, as they are automatically considered high risk.

Enhanced CDD

Enhanced CDD is used for high risk clients. In New Zealand, requirements fall under section 22 of the AML/CFT Act and may apply when a customer: 

  • Has a trust or another vehicle for holding personal assets.
    Is a non-resident client from a country that has insufficient anti-money laundering and countering financing of terrorism systems or measures in place.
  • Has a company with nominee shareholders or shares in bearer form.
  • Is a politically exposed person (PEP).
    You consider that the level of risk involved is such that enhanced CDD should apply. 

Ongoing CDD

Ongoing CDD should be conducted on existing customers, so you can ensure your record of your customer’s activities and/or transactions stay up to date and are as you expected. As an indication – where a customer is considered low risk, CDD should be done every 12 months and, if considered medium to high risk, this should occur every 6 months as well as any other time considered reasonable. You should have your ongoing due diligence requirements set out in your company programme.

Ongoing CDD ensures that the business relationship, including the activities and transactions within it, are consistent with your knowledge about the customer, their business, and risk profile.

In many cases you will not only need to carry out customer due diligence on your client, or the entity you are directly dealing with, but will also need to include:

  • any beneficial owner of a client (the person who ultimately controls the customer); and
  • any person acting on behalf of a client (the person operating or transacting on an account or facility that is held by your customer).

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