BSA Compliance Training & Consulting - BSA Policy Procedures Template

The May 11, 2016, Final Rule on Customer Due Diligence (CDD) requirements created an entirely new section, 31 CFR 1010.230, to address the new beneficial owner rules. One of the provisions is that covered financial institutions are required to establish and maintain written procedures that are reasonably designed to identify and verify beneficial owners of legal entity customers and to include such procedures in their AML Compliance Program.

The Final Rule also amended the current Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Program Requirements, set forth in 31 CFR 1020.210, to “explicitly” include risk-based procedures for conducting ongoing customer due diligence, to include understanding the nature and purpose of customer relationships for the purpose of developing a customer risk profile. This amendment essentially creates a “fifth pillar” of BSA/AML compliance and makes it official that today’s existing CDD regulatory expectations/guidelines are now REQUIRED.

In plain English, this means you need to amend your Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) Policy and update your written BSA Procedures. Do not fear; we are here to help. We have made the required updates to our sample BSA Policy and BSA Procedures templates. You can find them on the Free Downloads page of our website.

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Published
2016/12/30
Deb Irving