2007-08-03
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This document provides the glossary of terms defined in Instruction No. 006/2007-CSBF regarding the prevention and fight against money laundering and terrorist financing. It establishes precise definitions for key concepts including money laundering, suspicious operations, politically exposed persons (PEPs), and the Financial Intelligence Unit (SAMIFIN). The glossary also defines operational terms such as electronic transfers, beneficial owners, and risk thresholds to ensure consistent application of regulatory obligations by supervised institutions.
COMMISSION DE SUPERVISION BANCAIRE ET FINANCIERE
1 Annex 3 to Instruction No. 006/2007-CSBF GLOSSARY
| Terms | Definition |
|---|---|
| Beneficial Owner (art. 27, 28) | Beneficial owner |
| Money Laundering | - The conversion or transfer of funds or any other assets, with the aim of concealing or disguising the illicit origin of the assets or of assisting any person who is involved in the commission of the principal offence to evade the legal consequences of his acts; |
| Terms | Definition |
|---|---|
| Predicate Offence (art. 44) | Any criminal offence as cited below, even if committed abroad, which enabled its perpetrator to obtain proceeds: |
| Terms | Definition |
|---|---|
| Executive Body (art. 9, 15) | The body comprising the persons covered by banking legislation, called upon to ensure the effective determination of the direction of the establishment's activity. This body is responsible for the day-to-day management of the establishment as a business owner and represents it vis-à-vis third parties. |
| Assets (art. 22, 41) | The totality of family assets, assets inherited from father and mother: |
| Terms | Definition |
|---|---|
| Risk higher than average (art. 20) | It is for the covered institutions to determine the threshold of risk higher than average taking into account the nature and importance of the money laundering risk incurred, the clients' backgrounds, their country of origin or residence, the origin of their funds, the links between accounts, the types of transactions they carry out on their bank accounts or their professional activities. |
| Sampana Malagasy Iadiana amin’ny Famotsiam-bola ou SAMIFIN (art. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 13, 16, 24, 30, 33, 38, 41, 42, 43, 45) | Financial Intelligence Unit authorized to receive SUS. |
| Third Party (art 11) | All institutions, subject to regulation and supervision in the field of combating money laundering and terrorist financing, able to provide information or intelligence on the transaction. |
| Electronic Transfer (Chapter 5) | Any transaction carried out electronically on behalf of an ordering customer (whether a natural or legal person) via a financial institution with a view to making a certain sum of money available to a beneficiary in another financial institution. The ordering customer and the beneficiary may be the same person. |
| National Transfer (art. 36) | Any transfer where the ordering customer's financial institution and the beneficiary's are located in the same country. This concerns any chain of electronic transfers that is entirely executed within the borders of the same country, even if the system used to carry out an electronic transfer is located in another country. |
| Cross-border Transfer (art. 35) | Any transfer where the ordering customer's institution and the beneficiary's are located in different countries. This term also refers to any chain of electronic transfers comprising at least one cross-border element. |
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