AML Independent Review and Supervisory Visit Readiness Checklist

A full AML compliance review programme – governance, risk assessment, policies, CDD file testing, reporting, sanctions, training, records – plus an annual compliance calendar and a pack for an ACCA or other supervisory visit.

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Guidance notes included
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Accountancy practice – compliance & management

AML Independent Review and Supervisory Visit Readiness Checklist

About this document

What it’s for

A checklist to test whether the firm’s AML policies, controls and procedures are well designed, implemented and working. Use it for the MLRO’s periodic compliance checks, for an independent audit function under regulation 21(1)(c), or to prepare for a monitoring review by ACCA or another supervisor, which tests the same areas.

When to use it

  • Each year for the independent or MLRO review
  • When your supervisor announces a monitoring visit or desk-based review
  • After a significant change – merger, new service or new MLRO

What’s inside

The document is laid out in the sections below. Each one comes with a plain-English guidance note explaining what it does and what to change.

  • Part 1 – Governance and approvals
  • Part 2 – Risk assessment
  • Part 3 – Policies and procedures
  • Part 4 – Client risk assessment and CDD
  • Part 5 – Ongoing monitoring
  • Part 6 – Reporting
  • Part 7 – Sanctions and screening
  • Part 8 – Training, screening and records
  • Part 9 – Client file testing sheet
  • Part 10 – Supervisory visit pack (have ready)
  • Part 11 – Findings and action plan
  • Part 12 – AML compliance calendar

How to complete it

  • Answer every question with evidence, not opinion
  • Test a sample of client files using the file testing sheet in Part 9
  • Record findings and actions in Part 11 and carry them into the MLRO annual report

Key points to check

  • Updated for the Money Laundering Regulations as amended by SI 2026/621 and the CCAB 2026 guidance
  • Tailor it to your firm before use

Our templates are professionally structured starting points for UK businesses, not legal advice. For anything complex, unusual or high-value, have your final version checked by a solicitor.

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