AML Risk Scoring Framework for Financial Businesses
A risk assessment tells you where risk sits, a scoring framework decides how you actually rate it. We design the AML risk scoring model that turns your risk based approach into consistent, defensible decisions across Canada.
The Engine Behind Consistent Risk Rating
Every customer and product you take on needs a risk rating, and those ratings should be consistent, explainable, and tied to real factors. A scoring framework is the method that makes that happen. We design the risk factors, weightings, and tiers that turn judgement into a repeatable score, rating similar customers the same way.
From Risk Factors to a Score
A good scoring framework makes risk measurable without making it mechanical. We build the model around the factors that matter, customer type, product, geography, and channel, weight them to reflect your real exposure, and set the thresholds that decide who is standard, high, or in between. That score then drives the right level of due diligence.
Risk Factors
We define the risk factors that actually drive your whole scoring.
Weightings Tiers
We set the weightings and tiers that shape each customer score.
Scoring Thresholds
We set thresholds that decide standard, high, or medium risk tiers.
Drives Diligence
We link each score to the right due diligence level needed.
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Businesses We Support and Guide
We build scoring frameworks for payment service providers, money services businesses, currency dealers, crypto businesses, and the many other financial businesses that need a defensible risk scoring model under Canadian regulation.
We support banks with program design, oversight, & regulatory examination readiness.
We help credit unions meet obligations proportionate to their membership and scale.
We handle registration, renewals, reporting, & controls FINTRAC expects from you.
We cover Bank of Canada registration alongside your anti money laundering obligations.
We establish what your wallet activity triggers, then build only what applies.
We build compliance around what your product does, before volumes and questions arrive.
We register virtual currency dealers and build the reporting their activity demands.
We support financial institutions across registration, program build, and reporting duties.
Why Businesses Choose Our Framework
Consistent Ratings
We make scoring repeatable, so similar customers get similar ratings and no decision rests on who happened to review it.
Genuinely Defensible
We tie every score to clear factors and weightings, so you can explain any rating to a regulator with confidence.
Effort Follows
We link scores to diligence levels, so effort concentrates on higher risk and does not drown lower risk in checks.
Serving Businesses Across Canada
We support businesses right across the whole of Canada, from Toronto and Montreal to Vancouver and Calgary, and foreign businesses meeting their Canadian risk based obligations wherever they are based.
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Risk Scoring Questions
Clear answers to the questions businesses ask most about designing an AML risk scoring framework right across the whole of Canada.
What is an AML risk scoring framework?
It is the method you use to rate customer and product risk, the factors, weightings, and thresholds that turn judgement into a consistent score.
How does this differ from an assessment?
The assessment judges where risk sits across the business. The scoring framework is the method that rates individual customers and products.
What factors go into scoring?
Typically customer type, product, geography, and delivery channel, weighted to reflect where your real money laundering exposure actually lies.
Does a score set due diligence?
Yes. The score should drive the level of diligence, so higher risk customers get enhanced checks and lower risk ones stay proportionate.
Does Canada mandate a scoring model?
No single model is prescribed. The rules expect a risk based approach, and a sound scoring framework is how you deliver it defensibly.