- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By 
Aaron Nicodemus2024-05-13T19:47:00
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) proposed a rule requiring registered investment advisers (RIAs) to implement customer identification programs (CIPs), another facet of a coordinated attempt to close an apparent loophole in federal anti-money laundering (AML) regulations.
The proposed rule, jointly released by the two regulators Monday, would require RIAs and exempt reporting advisers (ERAs) to establish, document, and maintain written CIPs, which would help to “prevent illicit finance activity involving the customers of investment advisers by strengthening the anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism … framework for the investment adviser sector,” the SEC said in a press release.
The CIPs would require RIAs and ERAs to establish risk-based procedures for verifying the identity of each customer before or after the customer’s account is open, enabling each type of firm to “form a reasonable belief that it knows the true identity of each customer,” according to an SEC fact sheet.
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