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Legal Services businesses across the EU have been bound by AMLD for years. With AMLA arriving and the AML Regulation tightening the bar for everyone, now is the moment to retire the spreadsheets.
Sector challenges
- •Balancing legal professional privilege against AML reporting duties
- •Complex client structures using trusts, foundations and SPVs across borders
- •Real estate, M&A and corporate-formation work attracting illicit funds
- •Source of funds and source of wealth verification for HNW clients
- •Demonstrating ongoing monitoring to your Bar / Chamber
Typical AMLD obligations for this sector
- Identify and verify clients and their UBOs before any retainer is signed
- Apply EDD for PEPs, high-risk third countries and complex structures
- Continuous monitoring of the client relationship and transaction patterns
- Report suspicions to the national FIU via the appropriate channel
- Risk-based assessment of every new matter based on EWRA findings
- Maintain records under your Member State retention rules
How the platform helps
- Matter-level risk scoring based on AMLD6 and your national rules
- UBO discovery across European registers
- Privilege-aware workflows that segregate AML evidence from legal advice
- Source-of-funds questionnaires with built-in evidence capture
- FIU reporting templates pre-mapped to each Member State
- A single audit trail for your supervisory body
Purpose-built for Legal Services in the EU
Capabilities mapped to obligations Obliged Entities face under AMLD6 and the AML Regulation.
Customer & UBO verification
Identity verification plus European UBO register lookups, in a single workflow.
Risk assessment
EWRA template based on the EU Supranational Risk Assessment and national risk factors.
Continuous monitoring
Customer, transaction and (for CASPs) on-chain monitoring with risk-scored alerts.
FIU reporting
STR templates pre-mapped to each Member State's national FIU channel.
Programme templates based on AMLD6
Policy, procedure and training templates for you to review and adapt.
Evidence records
A single audit trail for your supervisor.
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Our tools help you prepare, record and manage an AML/CFT program. They do not provide legal or compliance advice and do not guarantee compliance with the EU AML Regulation or your national AML/CFT law. Your business remains responsible for meeting its own obligations and for every decision it makes using these tools. Instant Compliance is an independent software provider and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or acting on behalf of AMLA, any national supervisor or any government body. Read what we do and what stays your responsibility