Case Study Of Retail Banking

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Banking provides various kinds of services to the customers are prone to ML risks. Few highlighted below
• Retail Banking is the facility of providing savings, current, loan accounts to personal and commercial customers. This facility involves huge transactions starting from a low size to high sized businesses
Risk involved: o High risk is involved in retail banking as proceeds of crime can enter through the system at any stage of money laundering. o Risk of having fraudulent applications is also associated with retail banking o High level of cash involvement in the transactions make retail banking risky o In loan agreements risk arises when there is huge lump sum repayments of money by the customer or early closing of the accounts by …show more content…

The correspondent bank provides variety of services to the respondent bank as per the needs of the customer. Different banking activity like opening of accounts, clearing related activities or providing third party payments , short term borrowings. Correspondent banks acts like agent between the customer who can be individuals, corporates, financial institutions and the respondent banks
Risk involved: o As the nature of correspondent banking is typically a non-face to face business, it is very difficult to identify and verify the underlying customers. Unable to identify the purpose of the transactions and hence this is considered to be the high risk business for a bank and the banks which are undertaking this business should comply with ML regulations laid down by the regulators. Banks are required to perform enhanced due diligence to mitigate all the risk associated with correspondent banking o If there are proceeds of criminal activity/ laundered money entering through correspondent banking can lead to reputational and financial loss to the

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