BpER Banking Group KYC/AML policy statement

In order to provide exhaustive due diligence information at a group level, in early 2009 Banca popolare dell’Emilia Romagna adopted the Wolfsberg AML Questionnaire as the official statement regarding the KYC/AML policies and practices of all the BpER entities.

The choice for a group statement fell on the Wolfsberg Questionnaire, rather than an independendly drawn up declaration for two main reasons: in the first place to provide evidence for a uniform level of due diligence measures being applied throughout the Banking Group, secondly to offer all correspondents an internationally accepted wording which will reasonably satisfy the anti-money laundering and anti-terrorism principles prevailing worldwide. Finally, the easy access via the internet will allow the Group and its correspondents to save a lot of time and paper.

The Wolfsberg AML Questionnaire covering the Banca popolare dell’Emilia Romagna Banking Group is available HERE (.pdf) and can be accessed via links contained in the web sites of our subsidiary banks as well. The full list of covered entities is provided in the aforementioned document.

For a historical outline concerning the Wolfsberg Group and the drawing up of the Questionnaire, as well as for clarifications on the therein expressed principles, please visit http://www.wolfsberg-principles.com/index.html