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21 August 2026 · Practice notes

25% is only an indication

A client sends you a certificate of incorporation, a share register naming one corporate shareholder abroad, and a director that is itself a company…

21 August 2026 · Practice notes

A PEP is three people

In Cyprus law a politically exposed person is three people: the holder of a prominent public function, an immediate close relative, and a person known to…

20 August 2026 · Practice notes

Fuzzy matching is optional

Every screening desk has the same Tuesday afternoon: a queue of alerts, almost all of them somebody abroad who shares a surname with a designated person…

11 August 2026 · Practice notes

Risk rarely sits on the front company

Screening a single name tells you about that name. But money-laundering risk in a corporate client rarely sits on the front company — it sits somewhere in…

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