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#2203600 - 01/22/19 07:18 PM Benefical Ownership Recertification
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As I am preparing for our first exam since the final rule became mandatory - I stumbled across a "what if". If for some reason, a triggering event occurred on an existing customer (who we already obtained and verified beneficial ownership on) and the personal banker failed to recertify the beneficial ownership - would you consider that a CIP exception?

Would that be a line item on your CIP exception report?
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#2203613 - 01/22/19 08:32 PM Re: Benefical Ownership Recertification RVaughn, CAMS
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CIP and Beneficial Ownership are two different things, so it would not be a CIP violation.

What type of triggering event occurred?
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#2203620 - 01/22/19 08:59 PM Re: Benefical Ownership Recertification TryingtoComply
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Changing account signers, etc., would be the triggering event.

I guess in my mind I was thinking that because there we must obtain/verify CIP on beneficial owners - we would need to certify or recertify who the owners are so that we know when we have to perform CIP.

That is why I was equating this as a possible CIP exception.

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#2203691 - 01/23/19 05:05 PM Re: Benefical Ownership Recertification RVaughn, CAMS
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We added Beneficial Ownership procedures to our CIP Procedures so we *would* consider this a CIP exception and treat it the same as we do other CIP exceptions.
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#2203753 - 01/23/19 08:19 PM Re: Benefical Ownership Recertification RVaughn, CAMS
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Interesting. Beneficial ownership is in our CDD procedure which is separate from our CIP procedure.

Anyway, using your scenario, you would likely be criticized for not observing your procedure as your procedure indicates that a change to authorized signers will be considered a triggering event.

Changing authorized signers does not always equate to a change in ownership on a legal entity account. We do not consider it a triggering event unless there is an actual change in ownership. Why create extra work?
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#2203829 - 01/24/19 03:03 PM Re: Benefical Ownership Recertification RVaughn, CAMS
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This is a good example of how tying CIP and Beneficial Ownership together can unnecessarily create busy work for a bank.
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#2203874 - 01/24/19 06:22 PM Re: Benefical Ownership Recertification RVaughn, CAMS
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our beneficial ownership is separate from our CIP procedures.
a change in authorized signers does not equate a change in ownership, however we'd utilize the knowledge to inquire if there was any change in ownership.
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#2203919 - 01/24/19 09:05 PM Re: Benefical Ownership Recertification RVaughn, CAMS
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I've worked at a couple banks that combined the collection of CIP information on the same form with CDD information. I have never liked that approach as CIP is a one-time thing, whereas CDD applies to each account opened and is ongoing.

Anyway, shortly after I arrived I changed the forms.
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#2203952 - 01/24/19 11:23 PM Re: Benefical Ownership Recertification RVaughn, CAMS
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We do not define a change in signers as a triggering event so it is not required in all cases. It is used as an opportunity to ask if there was a change in ownership and if so, a new form would be obtained.
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#2204001 - 01/25/19 04:08 PM Re: Benefical Ownership Recertification RVaughn, CAMS
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While I agree with your thoughts on it not being indicative of a change in ownership always, how about a change in control? Those two items do not always align together. It is the latter that we have deemed it a trigger event that may require a new cert.
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#2204162 - 01/28/19 07:17 PM Re: Benefical Ownership Recertification RVaughn, CAMS
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oops overlooked that part -CONTROL PRONG may have changed even when a owner does not - again uses the knowledge to inquire.
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