Best practices KYC: What to do when your client is in the headlines
By 
Martin Woods2020-09-02T15:50:00
How do we, as AML professionals, assess negative media alerts? It should start with a conversation with the client relationship manager, but it shouldn’t end there, writes Martin Woods.
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