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Al Rayan Bank PLC
FCA enforcement action, 2023
£4m
financial penalty
Money LaunderingAMLPRINCIPLES
Where this fine sits
Rank (largest first)
#22 of 44
Top percentile
Top 50%
vs. median fine
1.1x
smallestlargest
What failed
The firm breached PRIN 3 by failing to maintain adequate financial crime controls in its retail banking operations.
Read the final noticeThe controls that would have caught it
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In short, the firm needed
- Customer Risk Assessment & Rating
- Transaction-Monitoring Scenario Coverage Assurance
- Ongoing CDD & Periodic Review
- Firm-Wide Financial Crime Risk Assessment
Beneficial Ownership Identification & Verification
PreventiveCustomer Due Diligence
For any company or trust customer, find out who really owns or controls it (the actual humans), and prove it, before letting them transact.
- Starting threshold:
- >25% direct or indirect ownership/voting rights defines a beneficial owner; verify identity of every such person; require the full chain to be resolved to natural persons within 3 ownership layers before activation, or document why a deeper/opaque chain is acceptable.
- First-line owner:
- KYC Operations / Corporate Onboarding team
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Enforcement data is sourced from the FCA fines dataset. The control mapping is an analyst view of what would have addressed the failings described in the public notice, not a statement of the regulator's findings.