ML 4.2 MLRO access to know your business information
- (1)
A relevant firm must take reasonable steps to give its MLRO, or any person to whom the MLRO's duties have been delegated, access to any know your business information it has.
- (2)
Know your business information in (1) is information about:
- (a)
the financial circumstances of a client or any person on whose behalf the client has been acting or is acting; and
- (b)
the features of the transactions which the relevant firm has entered into with or for the client (or that person).
- (a)
In order to do his job properly, the MLRO has to decide whether to make a report to NCIS. In most cases, before taking the decision to make a report, the MLRO is likely to need access to a relevant firm's know your business information.
A relevant firm is not required to increase the amount of information it gathers and keeps about its clients in the normal course of its business. Rather, a relevant firm should use its existing client information effectively by making such information readily available to its MLRO.