New Service – Customer Verification Biometric Facial Recognition, We are now pleased to be able in addition to our usual EV solutions add Biometric Facial Recognition to the customer onboarding process for both UK and overseas individual checks.
Access to the SmartSearch Platform through Business Tax Centre is on a ‘pay as you have used basis’ with no formal contractual amount payable, pay for your usage only.
Ministers had already announced the register, intended to lift the “cloak of secrecy” around company ownership contained within the consultation document for ‘Trust and Transparency For UK Companies’. This consultation also raised a number areas of weaknesses concerning ownership and control and will affect client due diligence procedures for regulated entities.
Some 10,000 passports a year are probably thrown in bins, says the UK’s Identity and Passport Service (IPS). Launching a campaign urging people to keep passports safe, it warns the same number are lost in bars and clubs.
Under the Money Laundering Regulations businesses need to carry out customer due diligence on their customers. This involves asking to see documentary evidence of a customer’s identity.
New Cifas stats paint bleak picture for the UK’s financial institutions and card companies.
Identity fraud surged by nearly three quarters in the first half of the year, driven by continued malicious online activity, and the economic slowdown, according to new figures from UK fraud prevention service Cifas.
If you have known somebody as a close relative for 40 years do you still need to ID him before accepting instructions?
AccountingWEB.co.uk 22-Apr-2009
Do the requirements to carry out ongoing monitoring of customer due diligence measures and client’s business relationships mean that you must obtain a passport and utility bill from your existing clients or that you must investigate all the business affairs of your clients?
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has today fined Sindicatum Holdings Limited (SHL) £49,000 and its money laundering reporting officer (MLRO), Michael Wheelhouse, £17,500 for not having adequate anti-money laundering systems and controls in place for verifying and recording clients’ identities. This is the first time the FSA has fined a money laundering reporting officer.
World-Check, in partnership with data quality specialist Datanomic, recently embarked on a project to screen the UK’s Companies House register of companies, company directors and secretaries against World-Check’s global database of high risk individuals and organisations.