Dear Members,

In cooperation with our partner Polixis, we would like to invite you to the webinar “PEPs & Sanctions Screening Today: Definitions, Jurisprudence and Defensible Best Practice for Swiss Independent Asset & Wealth Managers.

🎓 Speaker: Gagik Sargsyan, CEO & Founder, Polixis SA

📢 Agenda: 

• 9.00 – 9.05: Welcome from VSV | ASG
  Filippo Recalcati, Member of the Executive Management
• 9.05 – 9.45: PEPs & Sanctions Screening Today
  Gagik Sargsyan, CEO & Founder, Polixis SA
• Meeting and exceeding supervisory expectations — what supervisory bodies now consider a defensible PEP and sanctions screening programme. How independent asset and wealth managers can design a setup that meet and exceeds expectations at reasonable cost, including how to operationalise the 24-hour screening challenge.
• Best-practice data, in practice — what "good" actually looks like in the age of AI, for list management, data quality, fuzzy matching, name transliteration and beneficial-ownership data; how to combine Swiss, EU, OFAC and UK sources into a coherent and auditable screening universe.
• Latest jurisprudence shaping the field — recent case law and authoritative decisions refining the definition of PEPs and the scope of sanctions obligations (ownership, control, the 50% rule, indirect dealings), and supervisory expectations.
• The depository bank perspective — what a custodian or depository bank today considers a best-in-class KYC file and risk-flag set from an independent asset or wealth manager, and how to design files and screening evidence that anticipate and exceed those expectations, reducing friction, RFI cycles and de-risking exposure.
• 9.45 – 10.00: Q&A

After registering, you will immediately receive a confirmation email with the link you need to participate in the webinar.

We would like to remind you that the presentation of the exclusive offer for SAM members is available on our website under the heading "Solutions".

For any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at: lugano(at)vsv-asg.ch

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