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AML (anti-money laundering)

The body of law requiring financial businesses to identify their customers, monitor transactions and report suspicions, so that criminal money cannot flow through them. AML weaknesses are a classic diligence finding in fintech deals — in Project Sunrise they produced a specific indemnity. Chapter 12 · SPA definition

Explained in Chapter 12, Indemnities and the Tax Covenant, of M&A Foundations.

As defined in the training share purchase agreement
the matters described in section 5 of the inspection letter from the CBI to the Target dated 6 March 2026 (a copy of which is at Data Room document 7.4.1) relating to failures of the Target’s automated transaction monitoring between January and September 2024 and the resulting backlog of unreviewed alerts, including the remediation programme required by that letter;
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