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In 2017, The Joint Money Laundering Steering Group, (JMLSG) which sets the regulatory guidance for all UK financial services firms, issued revised KYC guidance. This ensures that United Kingdom regulations remain in line with recent updates from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and the European Union Fourth Money Laundering Directive. This revised guidance places a particular emphasis on financial services businesses adopting a risk based approach to counter potential Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing risks. This update explains the overall approach, recent changes and how these requirements can be satisfied t…

On May 14^th the Council of Europe adopted a directive strengthening the EU Rules to prevent money laundering and terrorist financing. Dubbed the Fifth Anti-Money Laundering Directive, it will amend directive 2015/849 and aims to further enhance transparency and controls in the wake of a number of terrorist attacks in Europe in 2016.

The 5^th Anti-Money Laundering Directive entered into force on 9 July 2018 and Member States will have to implement these new rules into their national legislation by 10 January 2020. Some of the key changes to the 4^th Anti-Money Laundering Directive are as follows:

 1. Transparent access t…

Director of The ID Register, Tim Andrews, explains about the background of the investor onboarding platform and how it can help make key processes such as fund launches faster, easier and more cost-effective.

"Custom software development is at the heart of fintech and makes systems like this one a reality. With our experience in this sector we are helping to solve real problems for finance sector firms." - Managing Director, Ballard Chalmers

After the success of the fully bespoke build of Capital Tracker, a cutting edge cloud enterprise application developed for managing Private Equity funds, Ipes continued their longstanding relationship with software development outsource partner Ballard Chalmers on the build of The ID Register, an online investor onboarding platform that helps makes key processes such as fund launches faste…

The European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into effect on May 25^th 2018 and with just a few months left to comply with the requirements, time is of the essence for businesses.

Fund managers and administrators in particular are caught between the proverbial ‘rock and a hard place’ with respect to Know Your Client (KYC) documentation. On the one hand they must comply with KYC regulations by collecting private and potentially sensitive information on their investors (the ‘data subjects’), while on the other hand they are obliged to respect the evolving rights of investors in relation to data protectio…

The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) has effectively extended the need to complete US tax forms to any financial institution that opens a bank account, holds investments in the US or deals with a US-based supplier or customer. These W Series forms come in different formats. Which one applies to your entity and how do you know which fields to complete?

The point of W Forms