Enhance Your AML Program with Trusted Operational Support

Satisfy AML requirements without adding complexity.

Firms are under increasing pressure to keep up with expanding sanctions lists, investor due diligence demands, and evolving regulatory expectations. ACA’s AML Due Diligence Support provides Managed Services to help your firm stay current while reducing internal burden.

Our team supports workflows across the AML lifecycle, including Customer Identification Program (CIP) onboarding, ongoing screening, and remediation. This solution includes structured workflows, screening capabilities, and results tracking—delivered by professionals aligned to your firm’s compliance framework.

Need help managing CIP reviews, ongoing monitoring, or remediation backlogs? We’re here to help.

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What Do You Need Help With?

Our AML Due Diligence Support service helps manage key processes across onboarding, screening, and documentation review. We help clients:

Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements by verifying customer identity at the start of the relationship.

Identify beneficial owners and controlling parties to meet transparency and AML obligations.

Maintain a clear audit trail of decisions and follow-up actions to support regulatory reporting.

Establish consistent, efficient procedures to streamline AML review processes.

Validate the authenticity and completeness of identification and corporate documents.

Analyze flagged results for potential risks and ensure timely escalation of suspicious findings.

Help reduce operational strain by clearing accumulated due diligence and Know Your Customer (KYC) reviews.

Interested in Learning How ACA’s AML Services Fit Into Your Program?

Connect with our team to review your onboarding, screening, and remediation needs, and explore where our Managed Services can provide the most value.

Compliance Support Powered by Technology

Our AML support is delivered alongside ACA’s ComplianceAlpha® platform and uses a built-in screening engine to support review workflows and documentation needs. This solution provides real-time monitoring and streamlines documentation—while keeping humans in the loop for critical decisions. Key capabilities include:

Why ACA?

ACA’s AML Due Diligence Support is delivered by Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (CAMS) with hands-on experience reviewing, documenting, and escalating AML cases across jurisdictions.

Our team works alongside yours to manage operational lift and improve consistency across onboarding, monitoring, and remediation efforts. With structured workflows, tailored reviews, and integrated screening technology, we help reduce internal burden while supporting compliance with global AML expectations.

Reduce Internal Burden

Rely on a team that works within your systems to take on time-consuming tasks and free up internal capacity.

Improve Consistency and Execution

Bring structure and follow-through to core compliance activities, supported by solutions that align with your program.

Stay Ahead of Regulatory Demands

Tap into a team that monitors changing rules and expectations, so your program stays responsive and up-to-date.

ACA helps you avoid compliance delays that slow closings and disrupt investor timelines. Talk to us about how our Managed Services support your firm.

FAQs

AML

ACA’s Managed Services team helps AML Officers handle onboarding documentation, screening hits, beneficial ownership look-through, and ongoing due diligence—allowing them to focus on program oversight, rather than routine reviews and information collection.

Yes. Your internal team always remains in control. ACA’s role is to collect, validate, and present onboarding data—including screening results and commentary. Your compliance officer or AML lead makes the final decision on whether to approve or escalate.

Yes. and validate documents, screen against sanctions and politically exposed person (PEP) lists, and summarize findings to provide clean onboarding packets for compliance review. Our professionals are trusted to interact with investors, delivering polished, white-glove support that reflects your firm’s standards.

ACA’s analysts validate screening matches (e.g., adverse media, watchlists) and escalate genuine concerns to your AML Officer with clear documentation and recommendations.

We typically complete KYC onboarding within one to three business days depending on the complexity of the entity, allowing firms to onboard clients without unnecessary delays. We can also accommodate unique requirements if needed.

Yes. We tailor our CIP and KYC checks by entity type, risk category, regulatory jurisdiction (e.g., SEC, FinCEN, Commision de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF), Chartered Institute of Managed Accountants (CIMA) and your firm’s specific risk tolerance and outreach style to help ensure compliance and efficiency.

Our team performs periodic refreshes, re-screenings, and profile updates in line with your firm’s review cycle.

Absolutely. We offer cleanup projects to help firms address stale client files, outdated CIP records, or large onboarding spikes.

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