Know Your Customer (KYC), Anti-Money Laundering (AML) & Pre-Trade Sanctions Compliance
Classical KYC/AML/Sanction processes
Focus on existing business relationships with individuals and legal entities and their transactions
SIX: Pre-trade and portfolio monitoring
Identifying sanctions regulation that focuses on the financial markets (e.g. asset freezes)
Sanctioned securities increase since the Ukraine invasion
Sanctions Radar
400 million
400 million
Companies and entities
150 million
150 million
Beneficial owners
30 million
30 million
Financial Instruments
Portfolio monitoring
Direct exposures
- Sanctioned Securities
Indirect exposures
- Sanctioned Securities as underlyings in Options, Futures, Structured Products and ETFs
- Special Purpose Vehicles funneling funds to sanctioned entities
Risk exposures
- Grandfathered securities (issued before sanction effective date)
- Derivatives with no cash payments
50% Rule applies
If a security is owned >50% by a sanctioned entity or individual, it is flagged as sanctioned.
SIX delivers a list of all securities and issuers that are sanctioned or at-risk by 11 regulators
- OFAC
- European Union
- United Kingdom
- United Nations
- Switzerland
- Australia
- Canada
- Netherlands
- Japan
- Hong Kong
- Singapore
SIX delivers a list of all ETFs investing in sanctioned securities
- Includes detailed information of the regulation tainting the ETF
- Providing weight of tainted instruments within ETF
Ultumus covers 97% of the market. 10,000 ETF’s from US, Canada, Europe, Asia and Israel.
Example
- ETF linked to CMIC sanctions
- ETF linked to Russian sanctions
- ETF linked to Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV)
SIX delivers a list of all securities linked to entities on trade restriction lists
- Entities on various US Red Flag lists like Department of Defense, Department of Commerce, and Homeland Security
- Normalized files with issuers, directly issued financial instruments, and indirectly linked investment products
- 50% rule applies
- 20% rule applies to affiliates
SIX delivers a list of all MRBs from 30 countries and their linked Securities
- Continous monitoring for new IPO’s
- Monitoring direct and indirect links
- 50% rule applies
No other provider is offering MRB sister companies held by 50% ownership link
Features
Sanctions Rationale
- Outlines the reasons why a security has been sanctioned by the regulator
- Easy for non-compliance professionals to understand
Detailed regulatory information
Number of Executive Order, Ordonnance or General License provided on instrument level
Flash e-mail service
Announces new sanctions programs with impact on financial instruments
Award winning corporate actions
Capture capital increases on grandfathered securities
Awards for Innovation and Excellence
Best AML Financial Crime initiative
Best AML Financial Crime initiative
A-Team Innovation, 2022
Best Solution for financial crime
Best Solution for financial crime
A-Team RegTech Insight, 2021
Best KYC AML Service
Best KYC AML Service
Waters Asia, 2022, 2021
Best Compliance Product
Best Compliance Product
FTF News, 2021
Best Buy-Side Compliance Product
Best Buy-Side Compliance Product
Buy-Side/Sell-Side Technology, 2020
Best Sell-Side Compliance Product
Best Sell-Side Compliance Product
Buy-Side/Sell-Side Technology, 2020, 2019
Delivery
6 days per week
2 times per day
4 Lists, full and delta files
- Institutions
- Financial Instruments
- Structured Products
- Options and Futures
- Optional: ETF‘s
Email and SFTP
- CSV
- XLS
- XML
Transparent & Scalable Pricing
Pricing depends on:
- Number of regulators monitored
- Assets under Management in $bn
- Usage scope