Singapore banks are red-flagging, reviewing, restricting and/or closing accounts of customers from China, Vanuatu, Dominica, Cyprus, Cambodia, Turkey, and St Kitts and Nevis.
September 25, 2023The suspects were involved in laundering proceeds from organised crime activities. MAS is scrutinising FIs where tainted funds were found.
August 17, 2023FIs are encouraged to actively identify customers with a nexus to cryptocurrencies, and to apply EDD where ML/TF and sanctions risks are assessed to be higher.
July 17, 2023Guidance is offered to reduce the burden on legitimate private banking customers trying to use banking services in Hong Kong.
March 8, 2023The bank had no policy for handling large deposits and did not conduct an internal audit of its financial crime unit over an 8-year period, among other weaknesses.
January 13, 2023Gatehouse Bank failed to perform appropriate checks on customers based in high-risk countries and customers that were classified as PEPs.
October 17, 2022When performing SoF and SoW checks, reporting entities must avoid the misconception that money coming from a bank can be presumed to be clean.
October 7, 2022Besides CDD and EDD failures, the bank's risk classification framework was "defective by design" and senior management oversight was "inadequate".
September 26, 2022UOBKH failed to implement adequate controls for its corporate finance business and to ensure it was subject to internal audit.
September 1, 2022This panel explores how financial institutions maintain high standards for SoW/SoF checks while still meeting the needs of digitally enabled consumers.
July 26, 2022