AML/KYC Policy

This is a short version of our Anti-money laundering (hereinafter referred to as “AML”) and Counter-terrorist financing Policy, which Aurix applies to its service.
 
The “money laundering” expression refers to all procedures used to cover up the origin of criminal revenues so that they appear to come from a legitimate source. AURIX aims to detect, manage and reduce all risks associated with money laundering and terrorist financing. The company has implemented a strict policy on detecting, preventing, or reducing risks associated with any suspicious activities carried out by customers.
 
Our company constantly monitors the level of exposure to the risk of money laundering and terrorist financing.
 
Our services are available only for EU citizens.

The AML/KYC Policy covers the following issues:

  • Verifying the customers’ background.
  • Responsible for compliance.
  • Monitoring transactions.
  • Risk assessment

AURIX believes that if it knows its client and understands its procedures well, it will be better prepared to assess risks and identify suspicious activity. The bank correspondence relationship shall not be established with “shell banks” and financial institutions if there are any doubts about whether or not the financial institution has a correspondent banking relationship with the “shell bank”.

AURIX is committed to establish and maintain policies, controls, procedures to manage and reduce money laundering and terrorist financing risks. These policies will be revised periodically to ensure that they are up-to-date and will include:

  • risk management by AURIX to prevent the use of its business for money laundering and/or terrorist financing.
  • requests for customer background checks, paying particular attention to customers at high risk, for example, Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs).
  • internal checks
  • the independent audit of policies, checks, and procedures.
  • keeping records
  • monitoring policy compliance

Internal policies, procedures, and checks

Employees:

All our employees must go through a criminal record check as part of the employment process.

Customers/Transactions:

In order to use our services, the customer must sign up in our application by providing a name, an email address, a password, and accepting the terms of this Agreement and our Privacy Policy. After signing up and before starting to make transactions, the user must pass the verification process. In this process, the user must send a copy of their ID card and of a utility bill to confirm their address.

After the user sends all these documents, the account must be validated by an Aurix employee in charge of this process. The main rule is for the customer to be at least 18 years old and an EU citizen.

All new customers shall be verified in the following databases:

  • The criminal database, available on the Romanian Ministry of Home Affairs website
  • The Romanian Court portal
  • Political involvement

The fiat payment can only be made if the account owner is the same as the bank account owner. Any bank account added by a customer must be verified by an Aurix employee before being used for transactions.

If a transaction is part of the following types of transactions, we shall report this to the FIU (The Financial Intelligence Unit):

  • Suspicious transaction;
  • Cash transaction – applies to all cash transactions in RON, for amounts greater than 10,000 EUROs, regardless of whether there is one transaction or several, with a potential connection between them;
  • External transfers – apply to all external transfers for amounts greater than 10,000 EUROs.

We monitor all transactions and when one seems suspicious, we shall request additional information from our customers, such as proving the source of the digital currencies. All customer documents will be stored by our company for a period of 5 years.

Verifying the customers background.

One of the international standards for preventing illegal activity is the customers background check. Checking the customers background means identifying the customer and verifying his/her real identity based on documents, data, or information, both at the time of initiating a business relationship with him/her, as well as doing this on a regular basis.

The customers shall provide the following identification information:

  • Full name
  • Date of birth
  • Country of residence/location
  • Email address
  • Mobile phone number
  • ID card
  • Bank account

Compliance officer:

AURIX will appoint a compliance officer for AML who will be fully responsible for the Company’s AML policy and will report any significant violations of the policy and of the internal procedures against money laundering, as well as of the regulations, codes, and standards of good practice

Monitoring transactions:

Our customers are monitored both by having their identity checked and their transactional patterns analyzed. We will monitor your account activity for unusual volumes, patterns, or types of transactions.

The procedure implies:

  • The daily check of users so that they don’t get “blacklisted”;
  • the management of cases and documents;

AURIX will redirect any suspicious transaction to the Financial Intelligence Unit whenever a suspicious activity is identified in the customers accounts.

Aurix has the right to request the source of funds at any time, regardless of the amount traded.

Risk assessment:

Aurix implements a policy against money laundering and terrorist financing. We are able to ensure that the measures to prevent or reduce money laundering or terrorist financing are equivalent to the identified risks. Risk assessment is a key element to efficiently implement the AML policies and processes.
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