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Assessing Client Risk Profiles

Assessing each client’s risk profile is a core part of AML compliance and can’t be left only to specialists. This course shows fee earners, onboarding staff and supervisors how to use a structured, practical approach to client risk so they can decide what checks are needed, how closely to monitor a relationship, and when to say no. Through a realistic investor scenario, learners see how seemingly low-risk clients can move into higher-risk territory and what to do when that happens.

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Course Overview

Assessing each client’s risk profile is a core part of AML compliance and can’t be left only to specialists.

This course shows fee earners, onboarding staff and supervisors how to use a structured, practical approach to client risk so they can decide what checks are needed, how closely to monitor a relationship, and when to say no. Through a realistic investor scenario, learners see how seemingly low-risk clients can move into higher-risk territory and what to do when that happens.

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Who Should Take This Course

Fee earners across corporate, commercial, property and private client teams

Onboarding and client intake teams completing client risk forms and check

Supervisors, partners and heads of department who sign off on clients and matters

Compliance, risk and MLRO teams supporting the firm’s AML framework

What You'll Learn

  • What “client risk assessment” means in practice and how it links to the firm-wide risk assessment
  • The three core questions behind any client risk assessment: who the client is, what they want the firm to do, and what might increase financial crime risk
  • Key factors in client risk profiles: client type and occupation, ownership and control, geography, reputation and history, and delivery channel
  • How these factors combine into an overall risk rating that drives due diligence depth and ongoing monitoring
  • A detailed case study involving Ms. Lawson, a professional investor client using an investment company, informal syndicates and nominee arrangements
  • How to record each risk element systematically on the client risk assessment form
  • Why Ms. Lawson is rated medium rather than low risk, and how this aligns with the firm’s FWRA
  • What a medium-risk profile means in practice: extra identity evidence, open-source research, clarifying syndicate members and nominee structures, and documenting rationale
  • The dynamic nature of client risk and when to revisit and adjust risk ratings (new instructions, ownership changes, new jurisdictions, adverse information)
  • Clear escalation triggers and how to apply additional checks or decide not to act
  • How to build client risk assessment into everyday work, including use of templates, narrative comments and normalising escalation

Key Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, learners will be able to:

1. Explain the purpose of client risk assessment and its connection to the firm-wide risk assessment.

2. Identify and apply the main factors that shape a client’s risk profile, including client type, ownership, geography, reputation and delivery channel.

3. Use a structured approach to rate clients as low, medium or high risk and record the reasoning clearly.

4. Apply this approach to a professional investor scenario, recognising why apparently low-risk profiles may in fact be medium or higher risk.

5. Determine what additional checks and monitoring are required for medium and high-risk clients in practice.

6. Recognise when client risk ratings need to be revisited and escalated as new information emerges.

7. Embed client risk assessment as a routine habit, using templates consistently and treating escalation as normal professional behaviour.

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Why This Course Matters

Many AML failures stem from weak client risk assessment rather than missing policies. This course equips your teams to look beyond first impressions and apply consistent, defensible judgments about client risk.

By making client risk assessment a normal, well-documented part of every relationship, your firm can spot problems early, protect itself and its people, and still deliver efficient service to the many clients who pose genuinely low risk.

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