Managing & Mitigating Risk

Challenges of CDD/EDD for Higher-Risk Customers

Financial institutions are facing significant Customer and Enhanced Due Diligence (CDD/EDD) challenges for higher-risk categories of customers as outlined in the FFIEC BSA/AML Examination Manual.

This infographic provides an easy-to-understand overview of high-risk customers, including expectations from examiners for risk-based procedures, a visualization of progressive methods of due diligence and suspicious activity reporting, current challenges of conventional CDD/EDD approaches, and how to strengthen compliance with an end-to-end approach to high-risk customer management.