AML Audit Mobile Office

AML Review Guidelines for Financial Firms
An Independent Audit of Firm’s AML Policies and Procedures

Anti-Money Laundering Audit & Review of Guidelines for Financial Companies is an audit app to conduct an independent review of financial firms AML Compliance Program.

This app is a required tool for any company required to comply with BSA Statutes and industry service providers conducting audit and risk assessment reviews of AML controls and programs.

Users Include:
Money Service Businesses(MSB) / Credit Unions
Investment Management Companies / Registered Investment Advisers (RIAs)
Broker Dealers /Hedge Funds / CTA/CPOs
CPAs / Law Firms/Risk Consultants

The AML audit app complies with generally accepted best practice rules and regulations required by The USA PATRIOT ACT and FATF compliant jurisdictions. This audit helps financial services firms and counter parties detect and correct potential problems with noncompliance with AML guidelines and regulatory statutes.

This app can prevent catastrophic damage to a firm’s reputation, mitigate substantial fines due to non-compliance and strengthen AML risk mitigation practices associated with money laundering and terrorist financing.

OVERVIEW

This audit app was created to conduct an objective evaluation of a company's AML compliance program. This programmatic review of the firm’s AML compliance program has been developed to meet the requirements of FATF compliant jurisdictions and the USA Patriot Act and its related AML provisions, specifically Section 352.

The review should be conducted by someone within the firm who is not involved in accepting client payments, processing of investor funds, overseeing the acceptance of customers, investors or subscription funds for the firm. An appropriate separation of duties and responsibilities for the oversight and evaluation of the policies, procedures and controls should be adhered to in the evaluation of the firm’s AML compliance program.

The app is organized into three sections each comprising three columns. The first section reviews general and organizational requirements of an AML Compliance program. The second section reviews a firm’s due diligence and operational procedures and the third section examines how firms report suspicious activity to enforcement, regulatory and service providers such as a money transfer provider, clearing firm, prime broker, administrator or custodian.

The app's structure will assist the reviewer in developing a relevant understanding of risks and review procedures that are required to make an objective assessment of the firm’s AML Compliance program procedure being examined. The first column outlines the risk characteristics posed by the program element being examined, the second column lists the review procedure and examination questions. The third column is blank for the reviewer to record observations and remarks raised by the examination questions posed in column two. The app allows the reviewer the freedom to record answers and observations that are specific to the business model and the firm’s specific compliance requirements. Once audit is completed, the reviewer can print document as evidence that AML audit has been conducted with a full summary of recommendations and next steps required to effect full compliance of AML regulations and best practice procedures.

The findings of a completed review should be presented to the firm’s Principals and Independent Review Results must be maintained for presentment during SRO examinations and to comply with enforcement agencies requests.

INDEX TO GUIDELINES

A) OVERVIEW

B) INDEX

C) GENERAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL

D) DUE DILIGENCE AND OPERATIONS

E) REPORTING

F) NOTES

AML Mobile Office Audit requires a Mobile Office App for Android. All widely available for no charge on Google Play.