2018-01-01
The Palestine Monetary Authority issued Circular No. 177/2018 mandating that all foreign exchange dealers in Palestine must exclusively use the GoAML electronic platform to report suspicious transactions and communicate with the Financial Monitoring Unit, effective September 1, 2018. This directive enforces compliance with Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing laws by ensuring the confidentiality and speed of reporting through a centralized digital system. The circular provides a detailed user guide for registering organizations, logging in, and submitting Suspicious Activity Reports via the GoAML web interface.
To all Foreign Exchange Dealers operating in Palestine Date: Monday, August 13, 2018
Based on the provisions of Article No. (14) of Law No. (20) of 2015 and its amendments regarding the combating of money laundering and terrorist financing, and Article No. (12) of the instructions of the National Committee for Combating Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing for Foreign Exchange Dealers No. (1/J) of 2017, and to ensure the confidentiality of the reporting process and speed in its execution when reporting cases of suspicion of committing money laundering or terrorist financing or any of the predicate crimes, all Foreign Exchange Dealers are required to fully comply with reporting and sending and receiving correspondence between the Dealer and the Financial Monitoring Unit directly via the Unit's electronic program page "GoAML" as of the date 2018/09/01, according to the mechanism outlined in the attached guide for the registration and reporting process.
Supervision and Inspection Department
Palestine Monetary Authority
Copy: To the respected Financial Monitoring Unit.
Ramallah - Palestine P.O. Box 452 | Tel: +970 2 2415250 | Fax: +970 2 2415310 | Fax: +970 2 2415310 | Tel: +970 2 2415250 | Ramallah - Palestine P.O. Box 452
Gaza - Palestine P.O. Box 4026 | Tel: +970 8 2825292 | Fax: +970 8 2844487 | Fax: +970 8 2844487 | Tel: +970 8 2825292 | Gaza - Palestine P.O. Box 4026
Email: info@pma.ps | Email: info@pma.ps
www.pma.ps
Before the reporting process on the Financial Monitoring Unit's reporting system, one must access the page for registering data of responsible reporting companies by entering the following link:
https://goaml.ffu.ps
Then click on Register on the red rectangle above, and then select Register As Organization as shown in the figure below.
After clicking on Register, it automatically navigates to the reporting entity data registration page as shown in the figure below. Regarding the Entity Type field, the registered company is distinguished by its type; for example, Foreign Exchange Dealers and Banks, security agencies, ministries, and other institutions should select Reporting Entity, and stakeholder.
Submit Request
https://goaml.ffu.ps/goAMLPRD/Account/LogOn
The username and password were previously defined in the financial institution registration process under the name person.
Thus, the registration and login process to the reporting system is completed within the permissions granted to each institution.
In the main menu, there is a list named New Reports – select Web Reports.
(goaml) Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU)
Submit Report | Save Report | Show Attachments x 0
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After that, the nature of the suspected party is selected, whether it is a company (Entity), person (Person), or account (Account), and of course, in the case of the Dealer's company, the available options are the Company or the Person executing the transaction.
If the Person (Person) is selected, the following screen appears:
Then, the fields for the properties of the phone, address, and identity number are filled, all of which are not mandatory – optional.
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After finishing entering all available fields, click Save.
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