Getting the balance right: Managing your AML obligations without friction, to keep clients and fee earners happy

The delicate act of balancing business and commercial success with compliance obligations is keenly felt in the legal sector. Maintaining this balance has been further complicated by the global pandemic, which has driven significant changes in both the criminal threats the sector faces and the way in which firms interact with clients.

In addition, the regulator has a keen eye on anti-money laundering (AML) compliance – whilst positive steps have been made by the legal sector, a Solicitors Regulation Authority Report found that in 53% of matters they audited, there was insufficient Client Due Diligence (CDD)*. This highlights that the regulator is watching and tough enforcement actions for AML breaches could be on the horizon. Such a perfect storm poses a challenging question for legal sector compliance professionals – ‘How do I ensure that I’m keeping the regulator, internal stakeholders and our clients happy?’.

Helping you to maintain a Risk-Based Approach across the client workflow

LexisNexis® Risk Solutions can help you apply a risk-based approach to managing money laundering risk across the client workflow, without adding friction for your clients or fee earning colleagues. Our combination of trusted data, advanced analytics and intelligent technologies will support your CDD controls; enabling robust identity verification, ongoing monitoring of clients and in-depth enhanced due diligence. Through a single trusted relationship you can create strong, yet client-friendly AML controls across your workflow, minimising your organisation’s exposure to money laundering risk and supporting business growth.

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Assure your customers' identities at onboarding

Activities you conduct...

Conflict checks

Conduct comprehensive Client Due Diligence including Know Your Client checks, Source of Funds and Source of Wealth checks and Enhanced Due Diligence, as required

Identify Beneficial Owners

Assess client risk (including evaluating their associates)

Apply a Risk-Based Approach

Maintain a compliance audit trail

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Prevent fraudulent account openings and takeovers

Activities you conduct...

Monitor the risk category of client – low/medium/high

Identify change in client risk profile prompted by trigger events (new matters/events/address changes/additional data/cases related to client); risk assess and reapply CDD measures as appropriate.

Apply a Risk-Based Approach

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Focus your enhanced due diligence

Activities you conduct...

Evaluate the risk associated with the instruction

  • Conduct remediation when required due to a significant change in risk
  • Ensure any remediation activity is swift and client friendly

Re-evaluate the risk associated with the client

  • On rare occasions, repeat CDD to the same level as a new client

Apply CDD checks for cross jurisdiction matters where the territory of origin does not have CDD requirements equivalent to the UK

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Access critical risk assessment information in a way that suits your business

We provide access to our AML capabilities through a variety of channels. Manual CDD checks can be conducted directly through a web-based portal; our automated ongoing monitoring solutions can be integrated into your existing IT infrastructure or, alternatively, our risk data can be loaded directly into your current case management or customer relationship management platform.

However you wish to access risk information, LexisNexis Risk Solutions can help you to do so from a single, trusted source.

Find out how we can help you meet your AML obligations, whilst keeping clients and fee earners happy

Book a free, no-obligation consultation to find out more.

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Who is LexisNexis® Risk Solutions?

LexisNexis® Risk Solutions harnesses the power of data and advanced analytics to provide insights that help businesses and governmental entities reduce risk and improve decisions to benefit people around the globe. We have offices throughout the world and are part of RELX (LSE: REL/NYSE: RELX), a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. For more information, please visit risk.lexisnexis.co.uk and relx.com.

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