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  • Re-KYC Training: AML Compliance

    Gain practical insights into Re-KYC triggers, customer risk assessments, 

    and ongoing due diligence to improve compliance effectiveness and reduce financial crime risks.

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What is re-KYC?

Re-KYC, also called periodic KYC review or KYC refresh, is the process of revisiting a customer's information after onboarding to confirm it is still accurate and complete. It is part of ongoing customer due diligence: keeping the customer file current so your risk rating, screening and monitoring stay reliable over the life of the relationship. 

How Often Must KYC be Refreshed in the UAE?

There is no single fixed period. In the UAE, re-KYC is risk-based: Cabinet Resolution 134 of 2025 (Article 7) requires you to keep customer information current and review it throughout the relationship, and the risk-based approach in Article 5 sets the frequency. Higher-risk customers are reviewed more often, lower-risk customers less often, and any trigger event prompts a review regardless of the cycle. 

What Triggers a re-KYC Review?

Re-KYC is not only a calendar exercise. A review should be prompted whenever something changes, including: 

  • The customer's scheduled review cycle falls due, based on their risk rating. 
  • A change in ownership, control or beneficial ownership. 
  • A change in the customer's activity, products or overall risk profile. 
  • A new sanctions, PEP or adverse-media match. 
  • Expiry of identity documents or other key customer information. 
  • A suspicious transaction or activity connected to the customer. 
  • A material external event, such as the customer's country being grey-listed. 
Acting on these triggers, alongside scheduled reviews, is what keeps customer information current as required by Article 7. 

Re-KYC, Periodic Review & Ongoing CDD: How they Fit Together

  • Ongoing CDD
    The umbrella duty under Cabinet Resolution 134 of 2025 (Article 7): monitor the business relationship and keep customer information up to date throughout its life.
  • Periodic review:
    Scheduled re-KYC carried out at intervals set by the customer's risk rating, the planned, calendar side of keeping files current. 
  • Event-driven (trigger-based) re-KYC:
    An out-of-cycle review prompted by a specific event, such as a change in ownership or a new screening match. 
  • Remediation:
    A programme to fix files that are incomplete or out of date (stale KYC), often run across the existing customer base as a back-book project. 

About this Free re-KYC Course

This practical course teaches compliance professionals how to keep customer files current through re-KYC. You learn what re-KYC is, how often to refresh under a risk-based approach, what events should trigger a review, and how to run a remediation programme for stale or incomplete files. It is grounded in the UAE framework, Cabinet Resolution 134 of 2025 and Federal Decree-Law No. 10 of 2025, but the skills apply wherever ongoing customer due diligence rules do. Practitioner-led, with a certificate on completion. You can start free. 

What you will Learn in this re-KYC Course

By the end of the course you will be able to:

Explain what re-KYC is and how it fits within ongoing customer due diligence.

Set risk-based review cycles instead of relying on a single fixed period.

Recognise the events that should trigger an out-of-cycle re-KYC review.

Refresh customer information and re-rate risk where it has changed.

Plan and run a remediation programme to clear stale or incomplete files.

Document each review so your files stay audit-ready (Article 7).

Why this re-KYC Course is Worth Your Time

KYC is not a one-off. A file that was perfect at onboarding goes stale as customers move, change ownership or change behaviour. If you only check at the start, your risk ratings, screening and monitoring quietly drift out of date, and that is exactly what examiners look for. Re-KYC is how you keep the whole programme current. 

In the UAE the duty is built into the law. Cabinet Resolution 134 of 2025 (Article 7) requires ongoing customer due diligence and keeping customer information up to date, and the risk-based approach in Article 5 sets how often you do it. Because there is no single mandated period, knowing how to set sensible, defensible review cycles is a genuine skill. Ongoing CDD is a global FATF standard, so it travels to any jurisdiction. 

Practical takeaway

You will know when to file a REAR, how to do due diligence on a property deal, and how to keep your brokerage inspection-ready. 

Re-KYC Course Curriculum

Who should Take this Course

KYC and onboarding analysts, periodic-review and remediation teams, compliance officers and MLROs who own the standard, relationship managers who maintain customer files, and the owners and staff of regulated businesses and DNFBPs (real estate, dealers in precious metals and stones, corporate service providers, accountants and law firms, alongside banks, fintechs and virtual-asset firms). No prior qualification is needed, and the course works whether you operate in the UAE or another AML regime. 

What you Get

  • A practical, self-paced online course you can complete in a single focused session. 
  • A certificate of completion that you can keep as evidence of training. 
  • A re-KYC and remediation approach you can apply straight to your own customer base.

By the end of this course you will know how to keep customer files current through risk-based re-KYC, how to act on the events that should trigger a review, and how to clear stale files with a defensible remediation plan. Equip yourself to stop your KYC from drifting out of date, reduce financial-crime risk in your organisation, and keep your programme audit-ready. Join us and keep every file current. 

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She currently assists clients by advising and helping them navigate through all the legal and regulatory challenges of Anti-Money Laundering Law. She helps companies to develop, implement, and maintain effective AML/CFT and sanctions programs. 

She knows Anti-money laundering rules and regulations prevailing in major countries and specializes in Enterprise-wide risk assessment, Customer Due-diligence, and Risk assessment. 

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ProAML Training is part of NIYEAHMA's AMLVerse, a global AML compliance ecosystem that connects consulting, regulatory knowledge and technology, including the consulting practice AML UAE. Courses are built and taught by practising compliance professionals, among them founder Pathik Shah (FCA, CAMS, CISA), who brings more than 28 years in governance, risk and compliance. That means the material is practical, current and grounded in real casework rather than recycled theory.

  • Practitioner-led: written and delivered by working AML professionals, not generalist course writers.
  • Practical and job-ready: focused on what you do at your desk, with real red flags, templates and worked examples.
  • Current: kept in step with FATF standards and the latest national rules, so you are not learning last year's framework.
  • Globally relevant: principles apply across jurisdictions, with strong depth in high-demand markets such as the UAE.

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Frequently Asked Questions About re-KYC

Re-KYC, also called periodic KYC review or KYC refresh, is revisiting a customer's information after onboarding to confirm it is still accurate and complete. It is part of ongoing customer due diligence, keeping the file current so your risk rating, screening and monitoring stay reliable. 

There is no single fixed period. Re-KYC is risk-based: Cabinet Resolution 134 of 2025 (Article 7) requires you to keep customer information current, and the risk-based approach in Article 5 sets the frequency. Higher-risk customers are reviewed more often, and any trigger event prompts a review regardless of the cycle. 

Ongoing customer due diligence is the umbrella duty to monitor the relationship and keep information up to date (Article 7). Re-KYC, or periodic review, is the scheduled refresh of the customer file that sits within it, alongside event-driven reviews. 

Common triggers include a change in ownership or control, a change in the customer's activity or risk profile, a new sanctions, PEP or adverse-media match, expiry of key documents, suspicious activity, and material external events such as the customer's country being grey-listed. 

KYC remediation is a programme to fix files that are incomplete or out of date (stale KYC), usually run across the existing customer base and prioritised by risk, so the whole book is brought back up to standard. 

Yes. Complete the modules and pass the final assessment to earn a verifiable certificate of completion you can keep as evidence of training.

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