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View from the chair: Know thy customer

Coutts bank sign
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View from the Chair is a regular column from Bovill’s Executive Chair Ben Blackett-Ord.

Recent events between Coutts, NatWest and Mr Farage will give banks and wealth managers plenty to think about.

For more than 30 years banks have been under increasing pressure to “know their customers”. The requirements arise principally from anti-money-laundering legislation, to ensure that banks’ customers are not money launderers and

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