OSFI Compliance

Williams McGuire and its team have assisted over a dozen federally regulated financial institutions (FRFI’s) with their AML compliance, aimed at achieving the Guideline B-8 standard. That assistance has included engagements:

By Chief Anti-Money Laundering Officers

  1. To conduct enterprise-wide assessments of money laundering and terrorist financing risk
  2. To remediate OSFI cited decifiencies
  3. To lead project teams through self-assessments of compliance, as well as money laundering and terrorist financing risks
  4. To evaluate the money laundering risks of contemplated product and service offerings, and to design counter-measures
  5. To evaluate and refine their compliance approaches and documentation
  6. To conduct evaluations of the prospective and current Alternative Financial Service Provider (AFSP) clients
  7. To design client risk rating methodologies
  8. To tune technology and business rules designed for the detection of potentially suspicious transactions, with a view to reducing false positives and increasing detection rates
  9. To train directors on enterprise money laundering risks and compliance responsibilities

By Internal Audit

  1. To perform comprehensive independent compliance effectiveness reviews
  2. To design compliance effectiveness review audit plans

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