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By Paul Jones
With the intense focus by the SRA on Anti-Money Laundering over the last year or so, it should not be any surprise that the regulator has decided it can’t wait for lockdowns to be over and it wants to get a picture of how firms are managing their Money Laundering obligations, especially as this time last year their AML Directorate Team were carrying out on-site audits, but for obvious reasons that stopped.
By Wayne Williams
On 18th November 2020, I wrote a news article reminding firms that the SRA were actively monitoring compliance and setting out the information etc. that needed to be on your website.