Seymour Sinclair Investments Limited
2 Blade Mews, London SW15 2NF
**IMPORTANT
INFORMATION REQUIRED WITH INVESTMENTS**
New Anti-Money Laundering Requirements
As of 1st September 2002 all applicants are required
to submit three documents along with their application forms for any investment taken out. The Financial Services Authority
(FSA) anti-money laundering regulations require that we satisfy ourselves as to the identity of any person(s) entering an
investment. This includes 3rd party payers, Trustees, Power or Attorney and change of legal owner of policy.
The FSA assumed responsibility for monitoring anti money laundering procedures from 1st December 2001
and new industry guidance notes were issued in the first quarter of 2002. Since then the industry has been
assessing what is now required, and an agreed date of 1st September 2002 has been set for all changes to be in
place.
Investment Companies and Independent Financial Advisers (IFAs) are responsibility to ensure that adequate identification
verification is undertaken on all relevant parties to a transaction and that satisfactory evidence of that identification
is maintained. Under the Joint Money Laundering Steering Group guidance notes, IFAs are required to submit,
with all application forms, an Intermediary Introduction Certificate for each party identified, along with documentation verifying
both your name and address. This applies in all cases for both new and top-up business and the “Pre-1994
customer” exemption no longer applies.
Anti-Money Laundering Regulations require that
Seymour Sinclair Investments confirm the identity and address of all applicants before establishing your investment / pension
or life assurance.
Please could you supply evidence confirming your
name and address when sending us your application.
We can take no responsibility for any delay
in investing where anti-money laundering verification is outstanding. In a situation where sufficient verification
has not been received in a timely manner after we have received completed applications, the application and any monies may
be returned to you without being invested.
Detailed below is the list of documents that
can be provided. Three documents are required of which at least one
must be from List A and at least two from List
B.
All three documents must be originals or certified copies. Certified
by a Bank, Building Society, Solicitor, Accountant, JP, and Professional Person, signed and dated by the certifier. If we
receive originals they will be certified and the originals sent back to you by return by the same method as they were sent
to us.
(A) Verification of Name
Current
signed full UK Passport
Resident Permit issued to EU Nationals by Home Office
Certified
copy of a UK photo card driving licence
Current signed full UK Driving Licence (old style)
Inland
Revenue Tax Notification
State Pension or Benefits Book or original notification letter from the Benefits
Agency confirming the right to benefits Fire Arm Certificate
(B) Verification of Address
Bank,
Building Society or Credit Union Statement or Passbook (less than 3 months old)
Solicitors letter
confirming completion of house purchase or land registration
Current UK/EU Diving License (old or new style)
State
pension or Benefits book/notification letter
Recent letter from the Inland Revenue
Gas,
Electricity or Telephone (not mobile) Bill (less than 13 months old)
Council Tax Demand (less than
13 months old)
Bank/Building Society Mortgage Statement (less than 3 months old)
Local Council rent card
or tenancy agreement
Current year Council Tax bill
*Higher
standards of proof may be required for some high value or high-risk investments*
Please
note: TV licences, mobile telephone bills and store cards are not acceptable forms of identification. All
documents will be sent straight back to you.
CHEQUES
Applicant’s
cheque from personal bank account is acceptable.
Payment being made from an account by direct debit or debit card must
be accompanied with evidence of account ownership. (e.g. bank statement or pass book)
Cheques from a building
society or deposit bank accounts must have the applicants name and account details printed on it by the society or bank.
Seymour Sinclair Investments Limited,
2 Blade Mews, London SW15
2NF.
