1. Nageswara Rao.Chennu
♦H.NO:9-1-34/14/30/1,Langer House,,Hyderabad ♦ +91 9989318132 ♦ chnr.chennu@gmail.com ♦
Professional Summary
 Possess over 7.5 years of rich and diversified banking experience, out of which 7.5 years in retail
banking with particular focus on AML/KYC,CDD, Transaction monitoring, Compliance, and Forex
operations, Training, and Operational Management.
 Strong experience in handling Due Diligence for Corporate, Retail & High Net worth customers.
 A depth in handling general banking functions in co-ordination with internal/ external departments
for smooth operations.
 Hands-on experience in working with various banking software such as AMLOCK, DOCUMENT
SCRUTINY, SWIFT, Finacle 7 & 10X, FCRM, Staff-ware, FX Online, SAS, Credence, etc.
Career Profile
 AML & KYC and Forex Remittances (Team Leader)
International India Operations Group, ICICI Bank Ltd, Hyderabad.
Professional Duties & Responsibilities
In IIOG AML&KYC and Forex remittances:
 Handling a team of 10 members in process.
 Performing Name scanning with negative lists issued by the regulators and multilateral global
authorities like RBI, United National, Interpol and European Union.
 Collating and maintaining the AML records.
 Monitoring of transactions and escalation of unusual behavior/suspicious activity/transactions to
the MLRO in a timely manner.
 Knowledge on Unusual attributes/red flags to be considered while performing enhanced due
diligence.
 Assisted in OFAC system replacement project through testing & analysis of false positives alerts.
 Preparation of SWIFT messages and marking mails to beneficiary banks for customer details.
 Effectively handled overall compliance related activities and handled various sanction
 Perform quality check of KYC on Simple due diligence, Regular due Diligence and Enhanced due
diligence. (Low, Medium and High Risk) Clients.
 Periodic compliance testing and review of various operations processes and systems and vetting
the process notes from operational aspects for the AML/CFT policies and guidelines. Setting up
system and procedures to ensure that the relevant operations teams receive periodic updates on
new regulatory developments and ensure compliance with the same.
 Perform AML and KYC checks on new and existing institutional clients.

2.  Performing enhanced due diligence through global application AMLOCK.
 Reporting/Escalating true match cases against regulatory like UN, OFAC and RBI to FIU India.
 Manage risk-based monitoring for unusual activity, including: detection, investigation, suspicious
reporting to law enforcement agencies, documenting the file with supporting documents,
deciding either to close the account or continue monitoring.
 Played a key role in the operations/processing team in processing of peak volumes and handling
critical situations.
 Maintaining and Analyzing Productivity as well as Error Tracker sheet of the team.
 Raising SR to branches to communicate revert from correspondence bank.
 Document Scrutiny and Transaction processing of outward remittance request received form
branches.
 Possess in depth knowledge of all foreign exchange transactions and Forex exception related
Queries from corresponding bank and beneficiary banks.
 Forex sales through all ICICI Branches
 Buying and selling of currencies for forex transactions
 Settling of Inward Remittances, Processing of Outward remittances of Retail & Corporate.
 Preparation of Swift Messages like MT 103, 202,110, 111, 199,999,192 etc.
 Ensuring service rejection ratio to zero percentage.
 Ensuring the Compliance & Regulatory guidelines issued by RBI & FEMA.
 Conducting UAT for new process.
In Private Banking Team: NRI International Team
 Forex transactions and providing preferential rates to HNI clients.
 Perform CDD, KYC, AML and Transaction monitoring to the high net worth NRI clients across the
Globe.
 Maintaining reports & documents for auditing, future & regulatory Knowledge on Compliance &
Regulatory guidelines on processing Trade.
 Submission of mandatory reports to RBI on regular basis.
Technical Expertise
 SWIFT Alliance(Tool for Interbank Fund Payments), AMLOCK and FCRM
 In-depth knowledge of FINACLE 7 & 10X (I Core Banking Solution).
 Retard FX Online and Credence application for pushing the cross currency deals.
 Well versed with: MS Office
 Lexis Nexis

3. financial Certifications
 AML India Learning Module
 National Institute of Securities Markets(NISM)
 National Securities Depository Limited(NSDL)
Operations Excellence
 Received ‘THIRD EYE’ award
 Highest number of Customer Queries handled in Remittance team
Trainings
 Trained on Anti-money laundering (AML).
 Personal effectiveness & Communication Skills.
 Business Continuity Plan (BCP)
Academic Qualifications
Graduated in Bcom from Acharya nagarjuna University with 60% -2005
Post-Graduation in MBA from P.B Siddhartha College of Arts & Science with 72%-2007
Personal Details
Date of Birth : 07th July 1984,
Contact : +91 9989318132
(Nageswararao.Ch)