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BREXIT News Update

Changes to the immigration status of British citizens residing in Malta

VFA Agents

BDO receives 'In Principle' Approval as a VFA Agent from the MFSA.

Budget Implementation Act 2019

 On the 22nd March, Act VII of 2019, the Budget Implementation Act, 2019 was enacted into law.

Rakele Cini to address seminar on AML

FinanceMalta is hosting a morning seminar on the 3rd April covering innovative technology arrangements and challenges in Anti-Money Laundering (AML). The breakfast seminar forms part of the BlockFinance series of educational seminars and will be held at the Corinthia Palace Hotel in Attard.

STR - Affording more faith in the reporting system

Only 10% of the millions of STRs filed within the EU are subject to further investigation after filing, a figure that is unchanged since 2006. New approaches lead by ‘intelligence’ to tackle money laundering and funding of terrorism are seen as necessary in the ever-changing financial industry we...

Who Can File A Suspicious Transaction Report?

Subject Persons are all deemed to be reporting entities in terms of the Prevention of Money Laundering and Funding of Terrorism Regulations. 

Suspicious Transaction Reports

A suspicious transaction report (STR) is required to be filed; when there is knowledge or suspicion that funds, regardless of the amount involved, are the proceeds of criminal activity or are related to funding of terrorism, or that a person may have been, is or may be connected with money...

Money Laundering and Funding of Terrorism – An update to the jurisdictions we should be mindful of

The Data Protection Officer – Necessity or Superfluous?