Common-sense KYC: Customers should supply the knowledge
By 
Martin Woods2020-08-07T15:39:00
No one knows a customer better than the customer. As such, financial crime expert Martin Woods believes the onus should be on the customer to provide the required data to keep KYC logs up to date.
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