The Jersey Financial Services Commission (JFSC) recently updated its AML/CFT Handbook for regulated financial services businesses (Handbook) to expressly permit evidence of identity to come from electronic sources (E-ID) as an alternative to original “wet ink” documents. Background The current version of the Handbook, which was first published on 1 January 2015, has been updated […]

Speed read Trust and fiduciary services provider Estera has been hit with heavy penalties by the Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA) after it failed to address anti-money laundering issues in its internal processes. The hefty fine of $500,000 (£400,000; €447,000) relates to the Jersey-headquartered firm’s failure to comply with anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CTF) legislation […]

On 8 May 2019, the Central Bank of Ireland found Campbell O’Connor & Company, a private client stockbroker, guilty of five breaches of the Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) Act 2010 (CJA 2010) between July 2010 and November 2016. These breaches comprised of failings in the firm’s anti-money laundering and combating the financing […]

Example of good and poor practices, which provide guidance that is helpful. Also, this is to a reminder of supervisory expectations. The FCA has published TR18/3 presenting a outcome from its thematic review of the anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorist financing (CTF) system and controls in thirteen Electronic Money Institutions (EMIs). Also the overview, just […]

The following was posted by the Netherlands Public Prosecution Service on 4 September 2018 ING Bank N.V. (ING) in Amsterdam has accepted and paid a settlement of EUR 775,000,000 offered by the Netherlands Public Prosecution Service (Openbaar Ministerie, hereinafter referred to as NPPS). The NPPS has accused ING in the Netherlands of having violated the […]

The U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network and its counterpart in China signed a memorandum of understanding Friday for expanded U.S.- China collaboration to fight money laundering and terrorism financing. FinCEN director Jennifer Shasky Calvery and the chief of the China Anti-Money Laundering Monitoring and Analysis Center, Luo Yang, signed the agreement. Calvery said. […]