2018-01-11
Finansinspektionen amended its regulations to require institutions for electronic money and registered issuers to detail their anti-money laundering and terrorist financing measures in their business plans. The updated rules mandate that these undertakings identify the person responsible for the central function in these areas and describe their general risk assessment. Additionally, the regulations require the inclusion of internal procedures and guidelines as a separate appendix to the business plan, effective from 1 August 2017.
Finansinspektionen’s Regulatory Code Publisher: Finansinspektionen, Sweden, www.fi.se ISSN 1102-7460 This translation is furnished for information purposes only and is not itself a legal document. 1 Regulations amending Finansinspektionen’s regulations and general guidelines (FFFS 2011:49) regarding institutions for electronic money and registered issuers; decided on 26 June 2017. Finansinspektionen prescribes pursuant to section 6, point 11 of the Electronic Money Ordinance (2011:776) that Chapter 2, section 20 of Finansinspektionen’s regulations (FFFS 2011:49) regarding institutions for electronic money and registered issuers shall have the following wording. Chapter 2 Section 20 The business plan shall set out how an undertaking intends to conduct work on measures against money laundering and terrorist financing in its operations related to the issuance of electronic money. Information about the person at the undertaking responsible for the central function in these issues shall be identified. The undertaking shall, in its business plan, also describe its general risk assessment pursuant to Chapter 2, sections 1 and 2 of the Anti Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Act (2017:630) and Chapter 2, section 1 of Finansinspektionen’s regulations (FFFS 2017:11) regarding measures against money laundering and terrorist financing. The undertaking shall, in a separate appendix to the business plan, also append the internal procedures and guidelines which the undertaking shall have pursuant to Chapter 2, section 8 of the Anti Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Act.
These regulations shall enter into force on 1 August 2017. ERIK THEDÉEN Jenny Stenhammar Gothnier FFFS 2017:13 Published on 30 June 2017