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Final Report - Guidelines EBA/2021/02 on customer due diligence and the factors credit and financial institutions should consider when assessing the money laundering and terrorist financing risk associated with individual business relationships and occasional transactions ('The ML/TF Risk Factors Guidelines') under Directive (EU) 2015/849 (EBA/GL/2021/02) (updated 30 December 2024)
Guidelines
Title II: Sector-specific Guidelines
Guideline 8: Sectoral guideline for correspondent relationships (8.1-8.3)
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Version date: 1 March 2021 - onwards

Firms should take into account that, in a correspondent banking relationship, the correspondent provides banking services to the respondent, either in a principal-to-principal capacity or on the respondent’s customers’ behalf. The correspondent does not normally have a business relationship with the respondent’s customers and will not normally know their identity or the nature or purpose of the underlying transaction, unless this information is included in the payment instruction.

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