This guidance explains the FATF’s requirements in the context of correspondent banking services and clarifies that the FATF Recommendations do not require correspondent financial institutions to conduct customer due diligence on each individual customer of their respondent institutions’ customers.
FATF
1 October 2016
This non-binding Guidance is intended to assist countries and their competent authorities, as well as the practitioners in the Money or Value Transfer Services (MVTS) sector and in the banking sector that have or are considering MVTS providers as customers, to apply the risk-based approach associated to MVTS.