Australia’s government agency for detecting, deterring and disrupting financial crime has published guidance providing indicators and behaviours to help financial service providers – particularly those engaged in trade financing – to detect and report suspicious financial activity. The guidance by the… Read More ›

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FATF seeks comments on legal aspects of beneficial ownership
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is seeking comments to its updated guidance paper to its Recommendation 24 (R24) on the transparency and beneficial ownership of legal persons. Separately, the task force is seeking comments on its review of Recommendation… Read More ›
Wolfsberg Group updates and publishes guidance on correspondent banking
The Wolfsberg Group, the association of global banks that aims to develop frameworks and guidance for the management of financial crime risks, has updated and published its Financial Crime Principles for Correspondent Banking. The principles detail risk-based due diligence measures that… Read More ›
Austrac publishes guidance on source of funds and source of wealth
Australia’s government agency for detecting, deterring and disrupting financial crime has published guidance to help reporting entities undertake source of funds and source of wealth checks and mitigate the risk that a customer’s funds relate to money laundering, terrorism financing (ML/TF)… Read More ›
Wolfsberg publishes RFI best practice guidance
The Wolfsberg Group has published a guidance paper on requests for information (RFIs) as used in anti-money laundering and counter financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) transaction monitoring processes. The guidance is focused primarily on inquiries initiated as a result of transaction monitoring,… Read More ›
Canada relaxes confirmation conditions in beneficial ownership requirements
The Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (Fintrac) has issued new guidance on beneficial ownership disclosure requirements for entities in Canada. The latest guidance differs from the guidance on this subject published by Fintrac in June 2017 insofar… Read More ›