CDD & KYC

Customer due diligence, beneficial ownership and ongoing monitoring.

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Customer due diligence for UAE DNFBPs: identity, beneficial ownership and the risk-based approach

What CDD and KYC actually require in practice: verifying identity, tracing beneficial ownership to a natural person, when a customer needs simplified, standard or enhanced due diligence, and the ongoing monitoring that doesn't stop once onboarding is done.

11 min read Updated 4 Oct 2026

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Sanctions & TFS Screening, the 24-hour freezing rule, and what to do on a match. 1 guide CDD & KYC Customer due diligence, beneficial ownership and ongoing monitoring. 1 guide goAML reporting STRs, SARs, CNMRs and PNMRs: what to file, when, and how. 1 guide Risk assessment Business-wide and customer risk assessment for DNFBPs. 1 guide Regulatory updates Changes to UAE AML/CFT law and what they mean in practice. 1 guide

Screening, CDD and goAML reporting in one place

groAML re-screens your whole customer book every time the UAE and UN lists change, matches Arabic names properly, and keeps the evidence trail an inspector will ask for.

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