Politically Exposed Persons
As part of their KYC procedure, financial firms submitted to AML regulation must list and apply higher vigilance standards to their PEPs. This exercise can be complicated as the criteria are broad: the FATF and different international bodies often publish updates for these recommendations.
What is a Politically Exposed Person (PEP) ?
What is an Adequate Risk Management ?
§ 2 of the same article indicates that these systems also entitle life insurance companies to identify the cases which have a beneficiary of a life insurance contract and, where appropriate, the beneficial owner of the beneficiary of such a contract is a PEP.
Introduction of National PEP
For its fourth amendment, the AML Directive adopted the concept of a national PEP. The directive provides a non-exhaustive list of public prominent functions:
- heads of state, heads of government, ministers and secretaries of state;
- parliamentarians or members of similar legislative bodies;
- members of the governing bodies of political parties;
- members of supreme courts, constitutional courts or other high courts, including administrative courts, whose decisions are not subject to appeal, except in exceptional circumstances;
- members of the courts of accounts or councils or executive boards of central banks;
- ambassadors, consuls, charge d'affaires and senior officers of the armed forces;
- members of the administrative, management or supervisory bodies of public companies;
- directors, deputy directors and board members of an international organization, or persons holding an equivalent position within it.
Pideeco: Customer due diligence investigation platform
Within a continuous dynamic environment, it might quickly become impossible for human analysts to follow the evolving track of worldwide politically exposed persons and their family and business relatives.At Pideeco we decided to revolutionize manual approaches and human interaction, inconsistent with modern vision.
We focus on developing grounded solutions that help real business professionals to make the best assessment supported by the best information at their side.
Pideeco Screening solution provides advanced monitoring of unstructured and structured data sources to identify existing risk signals better. Our solution includes the verification of all mandatory risk evaluation criteria. The database is updated continuously with (inter-)national official and another relevant listing of sanctioned individuals or entities. Furthermore, Pideeco holds the property of a Belgian National list of politically exposed persons and performs daily updates of the information it contains.
Pideeco Customer Due Diligence platform provides a wide variety of resources and workflows and allow you to centralise your customer risk appreciation and developments in one secured location.
How can Pideeco help you with Politically Exposed Persons?
Our decade-long experience in compliance and the financial sector can help your company to:- Analyze your current PEP-detection systems and create a gap analysis together with a mitigating action plan.
- Draft or improve your current policies and procedures concerning PEPs.
- Execute a lookback to find any PEPs that were not screened by your systems.
- Research any negative news and sift through sanction and blacklists to spot any high-risk PEPs.
- Screen PEPs on your behalf.
- Carry out enhanced due diligence procedures towards PEPs on your behalf.
- Carry out annual EDD revisions of PEPs on your behalf.
- Create comprehensive analysis templates with the material impact of the PEP on the transaction or service.
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