Kashif Farooqui

Areas of work

Sanction Screening Level 1 and Level 2

KYC/CDD

Transaction Monitoring

Crown Agents Bank (Contract Role) Position held:- SENIOR SCREENING ANALYST – till date

• Screen all payments against Sanctions and PEPs and Adverse Information
• Customer Due Diligence and Enhanced Due diligence of payments (where applicable)
• analysing banks' current filtering processes, including list management, alert generation, alert investigation, and reporting, to identify best practice.
• Analysing banks' current system and technologies, including their core filtering technology, list management solutions, automatic alert disposition techniques and alert/case management solutions

HBL Bank London UK From May 2017 - Nov 2021. PAYMENTS SCREENING OFFICER

• Screen all payments inward foreign cheques & Inward BACS
• Checks Transaction History and monitoring & Tax evasion
• Screen Trade payment 
•  Write suspicious activity reports, files Currency Transaction Reports (CTR's), address sanctions alerts, and other applicable AML processes in accordance with regulations and time limitations
• Escalate issues as appropriate for advanced investigation and analysis
• Build and maintain awareness of the broader context and implications of the various types of risk affecting the bank (e.g., financial, legal, reputation, etc.)
• Liaison with branches and CPU
• Maintain daily, weekly & monthly MIS reports

HBL Bank London UK – May 2015 – May 2021. KYC OFFICER

• Review customer KYC/CDD on-boarding and periodic review files.
• Ensuring client closure files are reviewed and signed off
• Conducts in-depth analysis, risk assessment and due diligence (CDD/EDD).
• Conducts AML Checks of sanctions and PEP & adverse media
• Transaction Monitoring
• Raising SARs when required

ICA Advance Certificate – Managing Sanction Screening

ICA Certificate – Financial Crime Prevention