2023-10-23
The Financial Intelligence Centre of South Africa has published a consolidated catalog of regulatory guidance detailing compliance obligations for accountable institutions. This listing specifies mandatory measures across targeted financial sanctions, customer due diligence, risk management programmes, employee screening, and data protection. By centralizing these directives and compliance communications, the document establishes a unified operational framework for implementing the amended FIC Act to effectively combat money laundering, terrorism financing, and proliferation financing.
GUIDANCE ISSUED BY THE FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE CENTRE Guidance issued Guidance subject Public Compliance Communication 441 Guidance on the application of the targeted financial sanctions regime within South Africa Public Compliance Communication 422 Guidance on the disclosure of facts or information contained in section 29 reports, or providing a copy of such a report to a supervisory body in terms of section 29(3) and section 45(B)(2B) of the FIC Act Public Compliance Communication 463 Guidance on the commencement and enforcement of the FIC Act as amended by the FIC Amendment Act Public Compliance Communication 484 Guidance on certain life insurance business issues including customer due diligence and understanding of risk in relation to their client in terms of the FIC Act Public Compliance Communication 12A 5 Guidance on outsourcing of compliance activities to third party service providers Public Compliance Communication 52 6 Guidance on the identification of money laundering and terrorism financing risks and associated customer due diligence for clients of authorised users of an exchange in terms of the FIC Act Public Compliance Communication 49 7 Guidance on money laundering, terrorist financing and proliferation financing risk considerations related to geographic areas Public Compliance Communication 50 8 Guidance on measures required for the mitigation of loss of intelligence data due to reporting failures Public Compliance Communication 439 Guidance on customer due diligence in relation to shared clients of accountable institutions Public Compliance Communication 51 10 Guidance on measures relating to foreign prominent public officials, domestic prominent influential persons, their family members and known close associates Draft Guidance Note 7A 11 Guidance on the implementation of the risk management and compliance programme in terms of section 42 of the FIC Act Public Compliance Communication 5312 Guidance on the risk management and compliance programme in terms of section 42 of the FIC Act for DNFBPs Public Compliance Communication 55 13 Guidance on screening of employees for competence and integrity as well as scrutinising employee information against the targeted financial sanctions lists by accountable institutions Directive 8/2022 14 Screening of employees for competence and integrity and scrutinising of employees against applicable targeted financial sanctions lists as a money laundering, terrorism financing and proliferation financing control measure Draft Public Compliance Communication 22A15 Guidance on information processing in terms of the FIC Act in relation to data protection Public Compliance Communication 54 on combating of proliferation financing16 Guidance on compliance measures aimed combating proliferation financing 1 https://www.fic.gov.za/Documents/200320%20PCC%2044.pdf 2 https://www.fic.gov.za/Documents/200228%20PCC%2042%20FINAL.pdf 3https://www.fic.gov.za/Documents/200330%20PCC%2046%20Application%20of%20the%20FIC%20Act_%20final%20for%20publication.pdf 4 https://www.fic.gov.za/Documents/200331%20PCC%2048%20final.pdf 5https://www.fic.gov.za/Documents/210324%20PCC%2012A%20Outsourcing%20FINAL.pdf 6 https://www.fic.gov.za/Documents/220325%20PCC52%20_%20auth%20user.pdf 7https://www.fic.gov.za/Documents/210329%20PCC%2049_%20ML_TF_PF%20risk%20regarding%20geopgraphic%20risk.pdf 8https://www.fic.gov.za/Documents/210330%20PCC%2050%20(mitigation%20of%20loss%20of%20intelligence)%20FINAL.pdf 9 https://www.fic.gov.za/Documents/200227%20PCC%2043%20final.pdf 10https://www.fic.gov.za/Documents/211203_PCC%2051%20FPPO%20DPIP_%20FINAL.pdf 11https://www.fic.gov.za/Documents/220401%20_FIC%20Guidance%20Note%2007A%20final.pdf 12 https://www.fic.gov.za/Documents/220830%20PCC%2053%20RMCP%20Final.pdf 13https://www.fic.gov.za/Documents/230331_PCC%2055%20Screening%20of%20Employees.pdf 14https://www.fic.gov.za/Documents/230331_Directive%208_Screening%20Employees.pdf 15https://www.fic.gov.za/Documents/CONSULTATION%20NOTE%20RELATED%20TO%20DRAFT%20PCC%2022A.pdf 16https://www.fic.gov.za/Documents/220930_PCC%2054%20Combatting%20Proliferation%20Financing%20FINAL.pdf