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Can incomplete Risk Assessments be deleted?

Yes, incomplete and submitted-but-unapproved RAs can be deleted; approved and active RAs cannot be deleted because they are part of the formal compliance record.

Yes — incomplete RAs can be deleted from the Compliance → ML/TF Risk Assessment list. This is the most common cleanup action for customers who started multiple draft RAs during evaluation and now want to keep only the one they're proceeding with.

What's deletable vs preserved:

  • Type: Incomplete draft RA (never submitted); Deletable?: Yes
  • Type: Submitted but unapproved RA; Deletable?: Yes, with confirmation
  • Type: Approved and active RA; Deletable?: No — part of the formal compliance record
  • Type: Historical superseded RA; Deletable?: No — preserved for audit

The platform logs all risk assessment entries for the audit trail, so the deletion itself is captured (rather than the record vanishing without trace), but the incomplete draft is removed from the active list.

Alternative: incomplete RAs can also be labelled if you want to keep them but have it clear they're not used — e.g. mark them as "Draft — Not Used" or "Test — Do Not Use". This preserves the historical record without confusing the active picture.

Why both options exist:

  • Delete is appropriate when the RA is genuinely unwanted — a test, a duplicate, a starting point that was abandoned.
  • Label is appropriate when the RA represents thinking that was useful but isn't going forward — e.g. a more conservative draft that was set aside in favour of a less conservative final version. Useful for the firm's internal documentation.

Completed and approved RAs cannot be deleted — they're part of the formal compliance record. To replace them, start a new RA (which pre-fills with answers from the prior one) and have the CO approve the new version; the previous version is preserved in the history but the new one becomes the active Program.

For viewing/editing answers in a completed RA (a different question), see "Can answers in a completed Risk Assessment be viewed/edited?" elsewhere in this file.

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