smartKYC’s 10 Best Practices for Perpetual Adverse Media Monitoring

By Dermot Corrigan
On: 7 March, 2024,
Categories: Adverse Media, KYC

Four years ago, we posited in our white paper, Eyes Always Open, published in Money Laundering Bulletin, that best practice guidance on KYC screening would soon include perpetual monitoring of adverse media as opposed to just screening at onboarding and re-screening at intervals.

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