RDS is a database list that rates countries of the world as they pertain to Anti Money Laundering (“AML”) and Sanctions risk.

AML Partners is an Anti-Money Laundering software and consulting company serving financial institutions internationally. In an effort to assist financial institutions cope with their complex regulatory landscape we have designed a methodology to assess the AML Risk with countries of a world. We call this utility our Country Evaluator and what it provides is an AML Risk Score for each country.

We have evaluated each Country against what we consider as Concern Lists of the world. Countries obtain Risk Scores based on their listing on a major Sanctions list such as the OFAC Sanctioned List. Some of the Concern lists used in our methodology are the ‘OFAC Country Sanctions, United Nation Sanctioned Countries, European Union Sanctioned Countries, Corruption Perception Index, FinCEN Advisory Countries, OffShore Financial Centers and many more.

Branch and Customer Risk Assessment(s) Financial Institutions can utilize the Country Evaluator to conduct Risk Assessments of their Customer Base where an evaluation could done on a customer’s domicile or where they are incorporated or even where they conduct their business, referred to as Trade Areas.

Transaction Monitoring The Country Evaluator could be used to determine the level of monitoring needed for customer transactions depending on the level of AML Risk the country possesses. Transactions conducted through higher risk countries could be monitored more tightly versus Lower risk countries.