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Identity Verification
Article | 4 min
Amendments to the Canadian Know Your Customer/Anti-Money Laundering (KYC/AML) regulations — PCMLTFA — were registered on June 25, 2019.
Individual Verification (KYC)
Article | 7 min
To fight money laundering, regulators and governments should ensure that effective beneficial ownership rules and procedures are in place.
Article | 5 min
Corporate KYC is the process of vetting a business or corporate entity and its beneficiary owners for the purposes of AML/KYC compliance.
Article | 6 min
Canada’s new Registry Requirements for Political Ads on Online Platforms will be a major test on how to combat foreign influence and other problem ads.
The 5th Anti-Money Laundering Directive (5AMLD) will come into force on January 10, 2020. It addresses a number of weaknesses in the EU's AML & CFT regime.
Article | 3 min
It is imperative that a safe system of information sharing is developed to securely access databases to flag potentially high-risk individuals/entities.
Implementing systems to help businesses automate the on-boarding process and comply with AML and KYC regulations is key to combating financial crime.
AML
A March 2019 US State Department International Narcotics Control Strategy Report on Money Laundering, declared Canada as a “major money laundering country.”
A look at myriad legislative attempts made to bring formation agents, specifically lawyers, under the purview of the BSA.
Article | 8 min
To counter corporate secrecy, observers believe that beneficial owners of a company should be disclosed when the company is incorporated.
Doing business internationally is a complicated undertaking including legislative, political, currency, transparency & standard logistical challenges.
FinCEN Beneficial Ownership rules require procedures to maintain and update customer information including UBO information for legal entity customers.