Glossary

A Comprehensive Glossary of AML & Compliance Terms

What is Money Laundering?
Bank Secrecy Act (BSA)
KYC (Know Your Customer)
Watchlist Screening
What is a Cash-Intensive Business?
AML
What is pKYC?
PEP Compliance
PEP Lists Explained
What is a Blacklist?
What is a Suspicious Activity Report?
What is Batch Processing?
PEP Lists Explained
What is a Money Laundering Reporting Officer?
Money Laundering Control Act
Customer Selfie Liveness Video
eKYC
Enhanced Due Diligence
Sanctions Lists
What is the Automated Screening Tools (ASTs)
Customer Due Diligence
What is AML?
What is Batch Screening?
AML Compliance
What is an Alert?
Fraud Prevention
What is Adverse Media?
Dedicated Customer Success Manager
Monitoring
How to be PEP Compliant
MLRO (Money Laundering Reporting Officer)
What is a SIP?
What is the Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA)?
OCR
Tax Haven
Companies House Data for AML Checks
Sanctions Checks
Terrorist Financing
Monitoring
Customer Identification Program
What is Compliance?
What is a Commission Rogatoire?
What is a Bank Draft?
What is a Person with Significant Control (PSC)?
What is Asset Freezing
National Crime Agency UK
What is the Financial Action Task Force?
What are KYC & KYB checks?
The Financial Conduct Authority
FATF (Financial Action Task Force)
AML Report
What is Fuzzy Matching?
How to be AML Compliant
Electronic Verification
False Positive
Adverse Media
Source of Funds
Electronic Identity Verification
Sanctions Checks
FinCEN (Financial Crimes Enforcement Network)
6AMLD - 6th EU Anti-money laundering directive
Safe Harbour
SIP/SIE
What is Enhanced Due Diligence?
Politically Exposed Person (PEP)
The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023
Money Laundering
Relative or Close Associate (RCA)
Ongoing Monitoring
PEP
What is the Asset Forfeiture
Dow Jones Screening
Sanctions Lists
Beneficial owner
What is KYC Crypto? | A Complete Guide
Retrospective checks
Reputational Risk
What is the Autonomous Sanctions
What is Asset Mingling
What Is Vendor Due Diligence
What is the Asset Protection Trusts (APTs)
Beneficiary
RCA
Ultimate Beneficial Ownership
What is Customer Due Diligence?
Money Laundering Regulations Explained
Structuring
5MLD - 5th EU Anti-money laundering directive
Risk Appetite
Money Laundering Regulations Explained
What is the Anti-Money Laundering International Database (AMLID)
What is the Anti-Money Laundering Programme
Money Service Business (MSB)
Suspicious Activity Report (SAR)
Facial recognition
What is OPBAS?