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The AML and compliance dictionary

Plain-English definitions for 919 terms across AML, KYC, sanctions, payments, crypto, fraud, and financial crime. Search, jump by letter, or browse by topic.

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AML & Financial Crime

99 terms

Alert-to-SAR conversion rate

AML compliance programme

AML risk assessment

Anti-bribery and corruption

Anti-money laundering

Beneficial ownership transparency

Bulk cash smuggling

Bureau de change risk

Cash-intensive business

Chief compliance officer

Compliance culture

Compliance officer

Compliance risk

Counter-terrorist financing

Customer risk rating

Deferred prosecution agreement

Delivery channel risk

Designated non-financial business or profession

Drug trafficking proceeds

Entity resolution

Environmental crime

Facilitation payment

False positive rate

Financial crime

Financial crime compliance

Financial crime risk assessment

Financial inclusion

Five pillars of AML

Four pillars of AML

Geographic risk

Grand corruption

Horizon scanning

Illicit financial flows

Independent AML audit

Machine learning in AML

Model validation

Monetary penalty notice

Money laundering

Money laundering charges

Money laundering examples

Money laundering reporting officer

Money laundering typologies

Money service business

Network analysis

Nominated officer

Non-profit organisation abuse

Petty corruption

Predicate offence

Predicate offence list

Proceeds of crime

Product and service risk

Professional enabler

Professional money laundering

Proliferation financing

Regulatory fine

Regulatory technology

Reputational risk

Reverse money laundering

Risk-based approach

Sanctions evasion as financial crime

Self-laundering

Senior management responsibility

Stages of money laundering

Supervisory technology

Suspicious activity monitoring

Suspicious activity vs suspicious transaction

Targeted financial sanctions

Terrorist financing

Third-party laundering

Three lines of defence

Types of money laundering

Underground banking

Wildlife trafficking finance

Willful blindness

KYC, CDD & Onboarding

86 terms

Abandonment rate

Adverse media check

Age verification

Authentication assurance level

Authorised signatory

Beneficial owner

Beneficial owner identification

Beneficial ownership threshold

Biometric verification

Customer due diligence

Customer identification programme

Customer lifecycle management

Customer risk profile

Customer screening

Data enrichment

Database verification

Decentralised identity

Digital identity

Digital identity wallet

Document authentication

Document verification

Driver's licence

Enhanced due diligence

Enhanced onboarding

Facial recognition

Identity assurance level

Identity orchestration

Identity proofing

Identity verification

Injection attack

Know your customer

Knowledge-based authentication

KYC remediation

Liveness detection

Machine readable zone

National ID card

NFC chip verification

Nominee director

Nominee shareholder

Onboarding friction

Ongoing due diligence

Optical character recognition

Ownership chain

Perpetual customer due diligence

Person with significant control

Presentation attack detection

Proof of address

Proof of identity

Residence permit

Risk-based onboarding

Self-sovereign identity

Selfie verification

Simplified due diligence

Source of funds

Source of funds evidence

Source of funds vs source of wealth

Source of wealth

Source of wealth evidence

Step-up verification

Straight-through processing

Ultimate beneficial owner

Unexplained wealth order

Verifiable credential

Sanctions, PEPs & Screening

87 terms

50 percent rule

Aggregation principle

Alert disposition

Alert suppression

Autonomous sanctions

Batch screening

Batch vs real-time screening

Blocked property

Blocking sanctions

Comprehensive sanctions

Consolidated sanctions list

Consolidated Screening List

Country-based sanctions

Cyber sanctions

Denied persons list

Designated person

Designated vessel

Dual-use goods screening

Enforcement action (sanctions)

Export controls

Extraterritorial sanctions

Frozen assets reporting

General licence

HS code screening

Import restrictions

International organisation PEP

List-based sanctions

Magnitsky sanctions

Multilateral sanctions

Once a PEP always a PEP

Ongoing monitoring

PEP by association

Politically exposed person

Prominent public function

Real-time screening

Rejected transaction

Relatives and close associates

Sanctions circumvention

Sanctions compliance programme

Sanctions evasion

Sanctions list provider

Sanctions programme

Sanctions risk assessment

Sanctions screening

Sanctions vs embargo

Secondary review

Secondary sanctions

Sectoral sanctions

Senior political figure

Ship-to-ship transfer

Specially designated national

Specific licence

Thematic sanctions

Trade sanctions

Transliteration

Transshipment risk

Unilateral sanctions

Vessel screening

Watchlist screening

Wind-down period

Monitoring & Typologies

90 terms

Above-the-line testing

Alert investigation

Anomaly detection

Back-to-back loans

Baseline behaviour

Behavioural monitoring

Behavioural red flags

Below-the-line testing

Black market peso exchange

Case management

Casino laundering

Concealment within business

Continuous monitoring

Continuous transaction monitoring

Cuckoo smurfing

Currency transaction report

Customer segmentation

Defensive filing

Dormant account reactivation

Event-driven review

Financial intelligence unit

Geographic red flags

Informal value transfer system

Integration indicators

Layering indicators

Layering red flags

Look-back review

Micro-structuring

Missing trader fraud

Money laundering through gaming

Monitoring threshold

Negative news trigger

Pass-through account

Peer group analysis

Phantom shipping

Placement indicators

Quality assurance

Rapid movement of funds

Real estate money laundering

Red flags of money laundering

Reg reporting quality

Rules-based monitoring

Scenario tuning

Suspicious activity

Suspicious activity report

Suspicious transaction report

Third-party deposits

Threshold tuning

Trade-based money laundering

Transaction laundering

Transaction monitoring

Transaction monitoring system

Transaction risk scoring

Transactional red flags

U-turn transaction

Under-invoicing

Unusual transaction

Fraud, Scams & Predicate

97 terms

Account opening fraud

Account takeover

Advance-fee fraud

APP fraud reimbursement

Application fraud

Asset misappropriation

Authorised push payment fraud

Bank impersonation scam

Behavioural biometrics

Business email compromise

Caller ID spoofing

Card-not-present fraud

Chargeback fraud

Chargeback ratio

Confirmation of Payee

Credential stuffing

Device fingerprinting

Document forgery

Employment scam

Financial fraud

Financial statement fraud

First-party fraud

Fraud detection

Fraud prevention

Grandparent scam

Human trafficking

Impersonation scam

Income falsification

Inheritance scam

Insurance fraud

Investment scam

Invoice redirection fraud

Money mule recruitment

New account fraud

Nigerian prince scam

Occupational fraud

Payroll diversion fraud

Ponzi vs pyramid scheme

Procurement fraud

Reshipping fraud

Social engineering

Synthetic identity fraud

Tech support scam

Third-party fraud

Triangulation fraud

Unauthorised fraud

Voice cloning fraud

Wrong number text scam

Crypto & Virtual Assets

78 terms

Address clustering

Address poisoning

Automated market maker

Blockchain forensics

Central bank digital currency

Centralised exchange

Consensus mechanism

Cross-chain bridge

Crypto custodian

Crypto exchange

Custodial wallet

Decentralised autonomous organisation

Decentralised exchange

Decentralised finance

Distributed ledger technology

Governance token

Illicit crypto flows

Initial coin offering

Multi-signature wallet

Non-custodial wallet

Non-fungible token

On-chain analysis

Ransomware payment

Ransomware-as-a-service

Real world asset tokenisation

Sanctioned crypto address

Stablecoin depeg

Total value locked

Transaction hash

Unhosted wallet

Unhosted wallet transfer

VASP due diligence

Virtual asset service provider

Payments & Identifiers

122 terms

Account information service

ACH routing number

Bank identification number

Beneficiary account validation

Chargeback ratio (payments)

Company registration number

Contactless payment

Correspondent banking

Cross-border payment

Faster Payments

How to find your IBAN

IBAN check digits

IBAN vs account number

Instant payment

Interchange fee

Intermediary bank

Legal entity identifier

Market identifier code

Merchant category code

Money transfer operator

Payment account reference

Payment facilitator

Payment gateway

Payment initiation service

Payment processor

Payment screening

Payment service provider

Primary account number

QR code payment

Real-time payments

Remittance corridor

Routing number vs account number

SEPA credit transfer

SEPA direct debit

Strong customer authentication

SWIFT code vs routing number

Taxpayer identification number

Third-party provider

VAT number check

VAT registration

VAT vs sales tax

Verification of Payee

Where is the account number on a check

Where is the routing number on a check

KYB, Corporate & Registries

81 terms

Adverse media on a company

Aktiengesellschaft

Articles of association

Beneficial ownership filing

Beneficial ownership register

Beneficial ownership registry

Besloten vennootschap

Business licence

Business registry

Business verification

Certificate of incorporation

Companies House

Company number format

Company officer

Company secretary

Company vintage

Corporate family tree

Corporate structure

Corporate transparency

Cross-border entity verification

Dormant company

Federal tax ID lookup

Financial statements

Free zone company

General partnership

Good standing check

Holding company

How to find a company's EIN

International business company

Know your business

Limited liability company

Limited liability partnership

Limited partnership

Litigation check

Memorandum of association

Nominee service

Non-profit organisation

Offshore company

Operating agreement

Ownership verification

Private limited company

Proprietary limited

Public limited company

Registered address

Registered agent

Registered agent service

Registered capital

Representative office

Sanctioned ownership

Societe anonyme

Sole proprietorship

Special purpose vehicle

Privacy, Cyber & Security

88 terms

Breach notification

Brute force attack

California Consumer Privacy Act

Certificate authority

Cross-border data transfer

Cross-site scripting

Dark web monitoring

Data controller

Data localisation

Data loss prevention

Data minimisation

Data protection impact assessment

Data protection officer

Data subject access request

Dictionary attack

Domain legitimacy check

Domain reputation

General Data Protection Regulation

Have I Been Pwned

How to check if a website is a scam

Identity and access management

Incident response

Information security

Is this website legit

Least privilege

Legitimate interest

Man-in-the-middle attack

Multi-factor authentication

NIST Cybersecurity Framework

Password breach check

Password spraying

Password strength

Passwordless authentication

Penetration testing

Personally identifiable information

Phishing website

Privacy by design

Pseudonymisation

Public key infrastructure

Records of processing activities

Right to be forgotten

Right to data portability

Right to rectification

Sensitive personal data

SSL certificate

Standard contractual clauses

Threat intelligence

Regulators & Frameworks

91 terms

ADGM Financial Services Regulatory Authority

AML regulations in Australia

AML regulations in Canada

AML regulations in Germany

AML regulations in Hong Kong

AML regulations in Hong Kong SAR

AML regulations in India

AML regulations in Nigeria

AML regulations in Singapore

AML regulations in South Africa

AML regulations in Switzerland

AML regulations in the EU

AML regulations in the UAE

AML regulations in the UK

AML regulations in the US

Anti-Money Laundering Authority

Anti-Money Laundering Regulation

Asia Pacific Group on Money Laundering

Australian Securities and Investments Commission

Autorite des marches financiers

Bank Secrecy Act

Basel AML Index

Basel Committee

Bureau of Industry and Security

Corporate Transparency Act

Dubai Financial Services Authority

EU Anti-Money Laundering Directive

European Banking Authority

European Securities and Markets Authority

FATF black list

FATF Recommendation 10

FATF Recommendation 12

FATF Recommendation 16

FATF Recommendations

FATF-style regional body

Federal Reserve

Fifth AML Directive

Financial Action Task Force

Financial Conduct Authority

Financial Industry Regulatory Authority

Financial Intelligence Unit India

Financial Services Agency Japan

FinCEN beneficial ownership rule

FinCEN CDD Rule

Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

Fourth AML Directive

High-risk third countries

Hong Kong Monetary Authority

Immediate outcomes

International Cooperation Review Group

Markets in Crypto-Assets

Money Laundering Regulations 2017

Money Laundering Reporting Office Switzerland

Mutual evaluation

National Crime Agency

Office of the Comptroller of the Currency

Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions

Proceeds of Crime Act

Prudential Regulation Authority

Reserve Bank of India

Sanctioned countries list

Saudi Central Bank

Securities and Exchange Board of India

Securities and Exchange Commission

Serious Fraud Office

Sixth AML Directive

Solicitors Regulation Authority

Transfer of Funds Regulation

Transparency International

USA PATRIOT Act

Wolfsberg Group

Wolfsberg Principles

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