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Regulatory Change: Customer Specific Risk Assessment

Overview

This webinar will provide a focused overview of Customer-Specific Risk Assessment under the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) framework. This is a new regulatory requirement taking effect from 1 June 2025, and reporting entities must be ready to implement individualised risk profiling for all customers.

The session will explain the purpose and benefits of customer-specific risk assessments and how these assessments guide the application of Customer Due Diligence (CDD), Enhanced Customer Due Diligence (ECDD), and ongoing account monitoring.

Attendees will receive practical guidance on designing and implementing a fit-for-purpose customer risk assessment framework, including the evaluation of key risk factors such as customer type, products and services, delivery channels, and geographic exposure.

This training will support your transition to the new requirements, help strengthen your risk-based approach, and demonstrate compliance to supervisors. Participants will earn one Continuing Professional Development (CPD) hour.

Aims and outcomes

Aim:

To equip participants with the knowledge and tools to develop and apply customer-specific risk assessments in accordance with updated AML/CFT regulatory expectations, enabling them to better identify, assess, and manage customer risk.

Outcome:

By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:

  • Explain the regulatory basis and rationale for customer-specific risk assessments.
  • Identify key risk factors such as customer type, product and service offering, delivery channels, and geographic exposure.
  • Design and apply a customer risk rating framework suited to their business model.
  • Use customer risk ratings to inform decisions around CDD, ECDD, and ongoing monitoring.
  • Prepare for compliance with the new AML/CFT requirements effective from 1 June 2025 and earn a CPD hour.

Speaker

Derek Chen

Derek Chen, Director and Head of Compliance at Strategi Group, brings over 10 years of experience in compliance and finance. His extensive background includes leading a compliance consultancy business, working for a wholesale fund manager, and serving in the corporate trustee team of a licensed supervisor. His credentials include:

  • Master of Legal Studies in Corporate Law – The University of Auckland
  • Master of Professional Accountancy and Finance – Massey University
  • Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS)
  • New Zealand Certificate in Financial Services (Level 5)
  • Passed Level One of the CFA programme
Date

30 May, 2025

Time

9:00 am -

10:00 am

Delivery mode

Virtual classroom

Cost

$50.00 + GST per person

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Upcoming Webinar: Regulatory Change with Customer-Specific Risk Assessment

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This webinar will provide a focused overview of Customer-Specific Risk Assessment under the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) framework. This is a new regulatory requirement taking effect from 1 June 2025, and reporting entities must be ready to implement individualised risk profiling for all customers.