The revised master directions highlight the need for all wire transfers to be accompanied by accurate and complete originator and beneficiary information.
May 5, 2023Banks must perform CDD on customers transferring virtual assets. Digital ID system iAM Smart can be used for identity verification.
January 19, 2023FSS investigations have so far involved 82 corporates and 12 banks. The total value of abnormal FX transactions discovered is now $7.2bn.
September 29, 2022October inspections will focus on firms with high volumes of short selling transactions. Probe into crypto-related FX transactions still underway.
August 17, 2022The FSB's recommendation that the LEI should be used more widely in payments will catalyze increased global LEI adoption, says GLEIF's Clare Rowley.
August 9, 2022Wells Fargo Advisors was fined for failing to timely file 34 SARs. This is the second BSA action against the firm in the last five years.
May 24, 2022The FATF says inconsistent implementation of AML/CFT requirements increases cost, reduces speed, limits access and reduces transparency in cross-border payments.
October 23, 2021Westpac failed to report almost 8000 corporate transactions to overseas recipients between July 2018 and February 2019, the RBNZ said.
August 11, 2021Reporting entities will have to conduct customer due diligence on nominee directors and nominee general partners of companies, among other changes.
July 14, 2021The federal judge ruled that a group of asset managers are not required to return $501mn that Citigroup mistakenly paid early on behalf of Revlon last August.
February 18, 2021