Bank Negara Malaysia Regulatory Requirement Compliance SolutionAre your financial institution’s compliance processes completely aligned to Bank Negara Malaysia’s Anti-Money Laundering(AML)/Combating Financing of Terrorism(CFT) guidelines under the Anti-Money Laundering Act 2001?
By: Divas Offshore Software Technologies Thus far, the Attorney-General’ The extension of the AMLA provision has been undertaken in two stages beginning with the invocation of the reporting of suspicious transactions, followed by the remaining provisions under Part IV of the AMLA that deal with Customer Due Diligence (CDD) and Compliance programme. Cash threshold reporting (CTR) requirement of RM50,000 and above in a day was invoked in September 2006. The invocation of the CTR complements the mandatory legal obligation imposed on banking institutions and other categories of reporting institutions to submit suspicious transaction reports (STR) to the financial intelligence conducted by Bank Negara Malaysia. Constantly changing as well as tightening anti-money laundering regulations not only in Malaysia but across the other countries, makes it essential for financial institutions to put in place automated compliance processes to avoid financial and legal consequences in the short run. If left unattended, these compliance issues, could affect your institution’ To meet these AML/CFT related regulatory and compliance requirements, we have built a compliance automation solution (FSP-KAT), core of which is architected around FATF’s 40+9 recommendations. This AML/CFT compliance solution can be easily adapted to Bank Negara Malaysia’s reporting requirements for submissions of CTRs & STRs and finally snap-fitted to your institutions existing processes. End
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