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Using online docs for CIP

Question: 
Can we download business documents from the Secretary of State to open an account?
Answer: 

Each institution sets its own Customer Identification Program procedures. You determine on a risk basis what documents and nondocumentary verification your institution will require. If you merely use a public database to determine that this business and these signers are who they say they are, that is nondocumentary verification. If you download actual documents, that is documentary verification.

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First published on 07/10/2016

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