Kycamlrbinb guidelines

KYC and AML Guidelines
issued by RBI/NABARD
03 August 2015
Bankers Institute of Rural Development, Lucknow

Introduction
• Banks advised to follow customers identification procedure
• For opening of accounts & monitor transactions of suspicious nature
• These guidelines revisited in the context of FATF’s recommendations
On Anti Money Laundering (AML) standards &
Combating Financing of Terrorism (CFT)
• FATF’s recommendations combined with CDD based on BSCB
• A proper policy framework on ‘Know Your Customer’ and Anti-Money
Laundering to be put in place with the approval of the Board.

Applicability
• Applies on All India Financial Institutions, all Scheduled Commercial
Banks (including RRBs), Local Area Banks,/ All Primary (Urban) Co-
operative Banks /State and Central Co-operative Banks.
• The guidelines are issued under Section 35A of the Banking
Regulation Act, 1949 and Rule 9(14) of Prevention of Money-
Laundering (Maintenance of Records) Rules, 2005.
• Objective: prevent banks/FIs from being used, intentionally or
unintentionally, by criminal elements for money laundering or
terrorist financing activities.
Also enable Banks to know/understand their customers/ their
financial dealings better and manage their risks prudently

Definitions under the guidelines
• A ‘Customer’ is a person who is engaged in a financial transaction or
activity with a reporting entity and includes a person on whose behalf the
person who is engaged in the transaction or activity, is acting.
• “Designated Director" means a person designated by the reporting entity
(bank, financial institution, etc.) to ensure overall compliance with the
obligations imposed under chapter IV of the PML Act
• Officially Valid Documents means the passport, the driving licence, the
Permanent Account Number (PAN) Card, the Voter's Identity Card issued by
the Election Commission of India, job card issued by NREGA duly signed by
an officer of the State Government, letter issued by the Unique
Identification Authority of India containing details of name, address and
Aadhaar number, or any other document as notified by the Central
Government in consultation with the Regulator.

Definitions under the guidelines-contd…
• Where simplified measures are applied for verifying proof of identity/
address, other documents too are valid in addition
• Persons: (i) an individual, (ii) a Hindu undivided family,(iii) a company,
(iv) a firm,(v) an association of persons or a body of individuals,
whether incorporated or not,(vi) every artificial juridical person, not
falling within any one of the above persons (i to v), and
(vii) any agency, office or branch owned or controlled by any of the
above persons (i to vi).
• “Transaction” means a purchase, sale, loan, pledge, gift, transfer,
delivery or the arrangement thereof

Definitions under the guidelines-contd…
• “Transaction” includes
• (i) opening of an account;
• (ii) deposits, withdrawal, exchange or transfer of funds in whatever
currency, whether in cash or by cheque, payment order or other
instruments or by electronic or other non-physical means;
• (iii) the use of a safety deposit box or any other form of safe deposit;
• (iv) entering into any fiduciary relationship;
• (v) any payment made or received in whole or in part of any contractual or
other legal obligation; or
• (vi) establishing or creating a legal person or legal arrangement

KYC Policy: components
• Banks/FIs have to frame their KYC policies. Components are:
• (i) Customer Acceptance Policy(CAP);
• (ii) Customer Identification Procedures (CIP);
• (iii) Monitoring of Transactions; and
• (iv) Risk Management.

Customer Acceptance Policy
• No account is opened in anonymous or fictitious/benami name.
• Parameters of risk perception are clearly defined in terms of the
nature of business activity, location of the customer and his clients,
mode of payments, volume of turnover, social and financial status,
etc. so as to enable the bank/FIs in categorizing the customers into
low, medium and high risk ones.
• Not to open an account where the bank/FI is unable to apply
appropriate customer due diligence measures
• Circumstances, in which a customer is permitted to act on behalf of
another person/entity, should be clearly spelt out in conformity with
the established law and practice of banking.

Customer Identification Procedure
• CIP means undertaking client due diligence measures while commencing
an account-based relationship including identifying and verifying the
customer and the beneficial owner based on the OVD/s
• Banks/FIs should have a policy approved by their Boards which should
clearly spell out the Customer Identification Procedure to be carried out at
different stages
• Bank may seek mandatory information for KYC which the customer is
obliged to give while opening an account or during periodic updation.
• Other ‘optional’ customer details/additional information, if required, may
be obtained separately after the account is opened only with explicit
consent of the customer

Customer Due Diligence(CDD)
• For opening accounts of individuals, banks/FIs have to obtain one
certified copy of OVD containing details of identity and address, one
recent photograph and such other documents pertaining to the
nature of business and financial status of the customer as may be
required by the bank/FI.
• Where the banks rely on the CDD done by an intermediary, they have
to satisfy themselves that the intermediary is a regulated and
supervised entity and has adequate systems in place to comply with
the KYC requirements of the customers.
• All said and done the Primary responsibility rests with Bank/FI

Customer Due Diligence(CDD)- contd…
• Issues related to CDD
• 1. E-KYC
• 2. Simplified Measures- Allowed in respect of ‘Low risk’ customers
• 3. Small Accounts
• 4. Accounts of non-face-to-face customers
• 5. Accounts of Politically Exposed Persons resident outside India
• 6. Where the customer is a company, partnership, Sole prop
• 7. Foreign Portfolio Investors

Introduction of New Technologies
• Issues related to Credit card/Debit card/ Smart Card/ Gift card:
• Banks have to pay special attention to any money laundering threats
that may arise from new or developing technologies including
internet banking that might favour anonymity, and take measures, to
prevent the same being used for money laundering purposes.
• Banks have to ensure that appropriate KYC procedures are duly
applied before issuing the cards to the customers including add-on/
supplementary card.
• The Agents involved are also to be subjected to due diligence and KYC
measures.

Other conditions
• Periodic updation of KYC : CDD as per risk categorization of Cust.:
• KYC exercise to be done at least every two years for high risk
customers, every eight years for medium risk customers and every ten
years for low risk customers
• Freezing and closure of accounts: partial freezing & revival
• close the account of such customers after issuing due notice
• In the circumstances when a bank/FI believes that it would no longer
be satisfied about the true identity of the account holder, it should
file a Suspicious Transaction Report with FIU-IND

Simplified norms for Self Help Groups
• KYC verification of all the members of SHG need not
be done while opening the savings bank account
• KYC verification of all the office bearers would suffice.
• At the time of credit linking of SHGs, no separate KYC
verification of the members or office bearers is
necessary

Walk-in Customer
• Where the amount of transaction is Rs. 50,000/- or more whether
conducted as a single transaction or several transactions that appear
connected, the customer's identity & address have to be verified.
• If a bank has reason to believe that a customer is intentionally
structuring a transaction into a series of transactions below the
threshold of Rs.50,000/-- Identify/Verify & file STR to FIU-IND
• Banks/ FIs are required to verify the identity of the customers for all
international money transfer operations.
(Clause (b) (ii) of sub-Rule (1) of Rule 9 of the PML Rules, 2005 )

Issue of Demand Drafts, etc, for more than Rs.50,000/-
• Banks have to ensure that any remittance of funds by way of demand
draft, mail/telegraphic transfer or any other mode and issue of
travellers’ cheques for value of Rs.50,000/- and above is effected by
debit to the customer’s account or against cheques and not against
cash payment.
• Banks should not make payment of cheques/drafts/pay
orders/banker’s cheques if they are presented beyond the period of
three months from the date of such instrument.

Unique Customer Identification Code
• A Unique Customer Identification Code (UCIC) helps banks to identify
the customers, avoid multiple identities, track the facilities availed,
monitor financial transactions in a holistic manner and enables banks
to have a better approach to risk profiling of customers.
• Banks have to allot UCIC while entering into new relationships with
individual customers as also the existing customers.

Monitoring of Transactions
• Continuous monitoring/ stringent ones for High risk customers
• large and complex transactions, and those with unusual patterns,
which have no apparent economic rationale or legitimate purpose.
• transactions which exceed the thresholds prescribed for specific
categories of accounts.
• transactions involving large amounts of cash inconsistent with the
normal and expected activity of the customer.
• high account turnover inconsistent with the size of the balance
maintained.

Risk Management
• Banks/FIs have to prepare a profile for each new customer based on
risk categorisation.
• The customer profile to contain information on identity, social /
financial status, nature of business activity, information about the
clients’ business and their location etc.
• The nature and extent of due diligence will depend on the risk
perceived by the bank/FI
• Categorisation of customers into low, medium and high risk

Risk Management- contd…
• Individuals (other than High Net Worth) and entities, whose identity
and source of income, can be easily identified, and customers in
whose accounts the transactions conform to the known profile, to be
categorised as low risk.
• Customers who are likely to pose a higher than average risk should be
categorised as medium or high risk depending on the background,
nature and location of activity, country of origin, sources of funds,
customer profile, etc.
• banks/FIs may use their own judgement in arriving at the
categorisation for each account

Cross-border wire transfers
• (i) All cross-border wire transfers must be accompanied by accurate and
meaningful originator information.
• (ii) Information accompanying cross-border wire transfers must contain the
name and address of the originator and where an account exists, the
number of that account. In the absence of an account, a unique reference
number, as prevalent in the country concerned, must be included.
• (iii) Where several individual transfers from a single originator are bundled
in a batch file for transmission to beneficiaries in another country, they
may be exempted from including full originator information, provided they
include the originator’s account number or unique reference number as at
(ii) above.

Domestic wire transfers
• (i)Information accompanying all domestic wire transfers of Rs.50000/- and
above must include complete originator information i.e. name, address and
account number etc., unless full originator information can be made
available to the beneficiary bank by other means.
• (ii) If a bank has reason to believe that a customer is intentionally
structuring wire transfer to below Rs.50,000/- to several beneficiaries in
order to avoid reporting or monitoring, the bank must insist on complete
customer identification before effecting the transfer. In case of non-
cooperation from the customer, efforts should be made to establish his
identity and Suspicious Transaction Report (STR) should be made to FIU-
IND.
• (iii) When a credit or debit card is used to effect money transfer, necessary
information as at (i) above should be included in the message.

Maintenance of KYC documents and Preservation period
• PML Act and Rules cast certain obligations on the banks/FIs in regard
to maintenance, preservation and reporting of customer account
information. Banks/FIs are, therefore, advised to go through the
provisions of the PMLA, 2002 and the Rules notified there under and
take all steps considered necessary to ensure compliance with the
requirements of the Act and the Rules ibid.

Maintenance of records of transactions
• (i) All cash transactions of more than Rs. 10 Lakh or its equivalent in foreign currency;
• (ii) Series of all cash transactions individually valued below Rs. 10 lakh, or its equivalent
in foreign currency which are that have taken place within a month and the monthly
aggregate which exceeds rupees ten lakhs or its equivalent in foreign currency.
• For determining ‘integrally connected transactions’ ‘all accounts of the same customer’
should be taken into account.
• (iii) All transactions involving receipts by non-profit organisations of value more than
rupees ten lakh or its equivalent in foreign currency
• (iv) All cash transactions where forged or counterfeit currency notes or bank notes have
been used as genuine and where any forgery of a valuable security or a document has
taken place facilitating the transaction
• (v) All suspicious transactions, whether or not in cash, made as mentioned in the Rules.

Preservation of Records
• Banks/FIs have to maintain for at least five years from the date of
transaction, all necessary records of transactions, both domestic or
international, which will permit reconstruction of individual
transactions (including the amounts and types of currency involved)
so as to provide evidence for prosecution of persons involved in
criminal activity.
• OVDs to be properly preserved for at least five years after the
business relationship has ended
• Special attention to all complex, unusual large transactions and all
unusual patterns of transactions

Combating Financing of Terrorism
• The United Nations periodically circulates the following two lists of
individuals and entities, suspected of having terrorist links, and as
approved by its Security Council (UNSC):
• The “Al-Qaida Sanctions List”, includes names of individuals and
entities associated with the Al-Qaida.
• The “1988 Sanctions List”, consisting of individuals (Section A of the
consolidated list) and entities (Section B) associated with the Taliban
(cf. Section 51A of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967)

Freezing of Assets under Section 51A of Unlawful
Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967
• The Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 has been amended by
the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Amendment Act, 2008
• It is meant for prevention of and for coping with terrorist activities
• Central Government is empowered to freeze, seize or attach funds
and other financial assets or economic resources of entities
• Banks/FIs are required to strictly follow the procedure laid down in
the UAPA Order dated August 27, 2009 and ensure meticulous
compliance to the Order issued by the Government

Reporting Requirements
• a) Reporting to Financial Intelligence Unit - India
• to furnish information relating to cash transactions, cash transactions
integrally connected to each other, and all transactions involving
receipts by non-profit organisations
• cash transactions where forged or counterfeit currency notes or bank
notes have been used as genuine, cross border wire transfer
• delay of each day in not reporting a transaction or delay of each day
in rectifying a mis-represented transaction beyond the time limit as
specified in the Rule shall constitute a separate violation.

Reporting Requirements- contd….
• b) Reports to be furnished to FIU-IND
• Cash Transaction Report (CTR)- by 15th of the succeeding month
• Counterfeit Currency Report (CCR)- by 15th. day of the next month.
• Suspicious Transaction Reports (STR)- it should be furnished within
seven days of arriving at a conclusion that any transaction, whether
cash or non-cash, or a series of transactions integrally connected are
of suspicious nature
• Non Profit Orgn.- by 15th of the succeeding month
• Cross-border Wire Transfer- by 15th of the succeeding month

Others
• Information collected from customers for the purpose of opening of
account is to be treated as confidential and details thereof should not
be divulged for the purpose of cross selling, etc.
• avoid undue hardships to individuals who are otherwise classified as
low risk customers
• educate the customer regarding the objectives of the AML/CFT
• adequate screening mechanism for recruitment of personnel
• ongoing employee training programme
• Designated Director and Principal Officer

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