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#187961 - 05/07/04 04:37 PM
New Accounts Risk Assessment
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Hi Everyone. Happy Friday! I've just been assigned the daunting task of adding Risk Assessment procedures to our New Accounts Policy...Im new to Compliance so Im looking for a little help. Is anyone out there willing to share some ideas? Im looking for ideas on how you would rate different types of personal and business accounts. Which ones would you rate as High, Medium, or Low risk etc...For example, If someone opens a business account and they are a pawn shop-you would rate them as High Risk. Or on the personal side, if a customer opens an account with 2 primary forms of ID, you would rate the account as "low risk"... I think Im on the right track here, but I'm having trouble finding a place to start. Any and all suggestions, tips, advice from Guru's, BOL'ers, and the like would be most appreciated. 
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#187962 - 05/10/04 03:36 PM
Re: New Accounts Risk Assessment
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I'd like to expand on this a little and maybe I'll get some responses. Are there any JackHenry users out there that are using the new Risk Rating Method? Rating the accounts as they are opened on the system is easy enough, but do you have any suggestions, tips, etc. on how you included this into your new accounts policy? Did you set guidlines on what is considered Low vs. High risk? Again, any help would be appreciated. Thanks all-sorry about the anon, im still tying to figure this thing out!
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#187965 - 05/10/04 09:40 PM
Re: New Accounts Risk Assessment
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Here's a related thread. If you search on "high risk" you will find others. I'll attempt to draw some comments for you by saying something a lot of folks appear to disagree with: When you are setting up your monitoring program, spend most of your effort on businesses. I've seen "scoring systems" that rank consumers from 1 to 10. Frankly, I believe they make a lot of distinctions based on very little in the way of differences. Some of these scoring systems use criteria that are simply not indicia of the likelihood that a consumer's account would be used to launder money or serve as a conduit for terrorist financing. For me, I would have to have perfected my monitoring system on businesses before I would expend the time and effort distinguishing between consumers other than citizens vs. non citizens.
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#187966 - 05/10/04 10:50 PM
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Here's a related thread. If you search on "high risk" you will find others. I'll attempt to draw some comments for you by saying something a lot of folks appear to disagree with:
When you are setting up your monitoring program, spend most of your effort on businesses. I've seen "scoring systems" that rank consumers from 1 to 10. Frankly, I believe they make a lot of distinctions based on very little in the way of differences. Some of these scoring systems use criteria that are simply not indicia of the likelihood that a consumer's account would be used to launder money or serve as a conduit for terrorist financing. For me, I would have to have perfected my monitoring system on businesses before I would expend the time and effort distinguishing between consumers other than citizens vs. non citizens.
However, if you conduct a review of high-volume accounts, and you find consumer accounts with a high volume of cash deposits followed by monetary instrument purchases, wires, etc., then I would say you would bump that account into the "high risk" category.
I would also be leery of systems that would risk rank based on lifestyle as you could start down a slippery slope of profiling based on marital status, age, ethnicity, gender, gender orientation, etc. And while there are no "Fair Deposit" regulations as we have for Fair Lending, we are just begging the issue.
I guess the main thing is anytime you have a consumer account that appears to be used like a business account (lots of cash, wires, monetary instruments, etc.), then you should be reviewing that account if only to determine if the account should be reclassified (and charged!) as a business account.
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#187967 - 05/11/04 01:21 PM
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However, if you conduct a review of high-volume accounts, and you find consumer accounts with a high volume of cash deposits followed by monetary instrument purchases, wires, etc., then I would say you would bump that account into the "high risk" category.
Actually, in my book, that one would merit its own investigation, beginning now.
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