UK Joint Money Laundering Steering Group Consults on Pooled Client Accounts Guidance

The U.K. Joint Money Laundering Steering Group has launched a consultation on draft guidance on Pooled Client Accounts. The JMLSG Guidance is provided for firms in the financial sector. A PCA is a bank account opened with a financial institution by a customer, to administer funds that belong to the customer's clients. The customers clients' money will be co-mingled but the customer's clients will not be able to directly instruct the financial institution to carry out transactions. The JMLSG is proposing guidance on the risks, risk assessments, written agreements and due diligence that might be needed when a financial institution opens and administers a PCA for a customer. The consultation closes on June 10, 2020.

View the consultation paper.

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