21th November 2022 The Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit has launched its four-year strategy to its public and private partners and to the press. It is the first time in the Unit’s 20-year history that this has been done. The launch coincides with the FIAU’s 20th Anniversary. In his welcome address during the launch of the […]
7th November 2022 The Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit would like to inform subject persons that the FATF has published a draft text updating the Guidance to Recommendation 24 on the transparency and beneficial ownership of legal persons. Â A White Paper for public consultation to consider the potential amendments to Recommendation 24 took place between […]
4th November 2022 The Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit (FIAU) would like to inform subject persons that on the 27th of October 2022 the European Commission published a revised version of its Supranational Risk Assessment (SNRA). This is the third edition of the SNRA. The updating of this publication, as stipulated in Article 6(1) of the […]
1st November 2022 The Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit (FIAU) would like to bring to the attention of all subject persons that the European Banking Authority (EBA) has issued: A call for interest for two expert groups A call for expression of interest to join two Technical Expert Groups: – on crypto assets service providers and anti-money […]
The FIAU would like to bring to your attention the latest FATF ‘High-Risk Jurisdictions subject to a Call for Action’ (previously known as ‘Public Statement’) and ‘Jurisdictions under Increased Monitoring‘ (previously known as ‘Improving global AML/CFT compliance: on-going process’) documents issued by the FATF on 21 October 2022. A copy of these documents has been […]
18th October 2022 The FIAU would like to bring to your attention the fact that the Council of the European Union has adopted the 8th package of sanctions in response to the illegal occupation by the Russian Federation of certain non-government controlled areas of Ukraine. These further restrictive measures against Russia were published in the Official […]
13th October 2022 The Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit (FIAU) is issuing the following communication to subject persons in relation to the thematic review on Corporate Service Providers’ (CSPs) adherence to anti-money laundering and combatting the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) obligations which was carried out during 2020. Through the paper, the FIAU aims to set light […]
10th October 2022 The FIAU would like to inform CBAR Reporting Entities that on Thursday 13th October 2022, between 12:30 PM and 15:30 PM there will be a scheduled down time. During this maintenance window, MoveIT (moveit.staging-fiaumalta.kinsta.cloud) and CBAR Portal (cbar.staging-fiaumalta.kinsta.cloud) will be inaccessible. All operations around the platform, including file submission, validation report generation and user registration […]
2nd August 2022 The FIAU would like to inform subject persons that the FATF has updated its Guidance Document on the Risk Based Approach for the Real Estate Sector. This follows a public consultation exercise carried out between March – April 2022, in which the FIAU also provided its feedback. The revised Risk-Based Approach Guidance for […]