Category: Jurisdiction Briefing
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As late as April 2026, one section of the FSRA's Anti-Money Laundering and Sanctions Rulebook covered every kind of transfer. In the FSRA's own words, AML 10.3 "has governed wire transfers and all other value transfer arrangements", transfers of virtual…
A screening tool that carries the UN list and whatever the vendor ships by default is not, on its own, what the QFC Regulatory Authority is asking for. Its Guidance on the Implementation of an Effective Sanctions Compliance Programme, marked V1.0 and dated…
On the last day of 2025 the Saudi Central Bank (SAMA) issued its Guidance on Assessing Business Risks Related to Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Proliferation Financing, by circular No. (472039915), dated 11/7/1447H, corresponding to 31 December…
Section 19H(1)(d) of the Financial Intelligence and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2002 (FIAMLA) gives a regulatory body a set of administrative sanctions it can apply to a member under its purview: a private warning, a public censure, a ban of up to 5 years where…
"Know Your Vendor" is a process label, not an instrument. That is why a search for it in a rulebook comes back empty, and why firms sometimes conclude the duty is a matter of good practice rather than law.
If your STR procedure ends at the moment of lodgement — suspicion formed, MLRO decides, report goes to the financial intelligence unit, file closed, customer handled carefully from then on — it is incomplete for a firm inside the Qatar Financial Centre. The…
Fifteen days apart at the end of 2025, two Saudi financial supervisors each put out a targeted financial sanctions rulebook. The Saudi Central Bank (SAMA) issued its Rules for the Implementation of Targeted Financial Sanctions by circular No. (472035766),…
If your UAE AML policy still cites Cabinet Decision No. (10) of 2019 — the implementing regulation of Decree-Law No. (20) of 2018 — it cites an instrument that no longer exists. The CBUAE Rulebook records its status as Repealed.
Section 14(1) of the Financial Intelligence and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2002 (FIAMLA) requires every reporting person or auditor, as soon as he becomes aware of a suspicious transaction, to make a report to the FIU "promptly but not later than 5 working…
Every jurisdiction in this series requires a suspicious transaction report. Two of the six put a number on the deadline. The other four use words: promptly and directly in Saudi Arabia, without delay and directly under UAE federal law, which is what firms in…
A working session with your compliance team, then a walkthrough against your own risk appetite: the lifecycle end to end, scoring weights set to your policy, and a review of the audit trail the system produces.
