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Optimising Fraud and Financial Crime Detection and Reporting

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority issued this circular on 9 February 2023 to provide guidance on optimizing fraud and financial crime detection and reporting mechanisms. It directs all authorized institutions to enhance their anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing controls through improved transaction monitoring and screening processes. The document serves as an enclosure to the revised Guidance Paper on Transaction Monitoring, Screening and Suspicious Transaction Reporting.

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Issue Date:

09 Feb 2023

20230209-1-EN.pdf (177.5 KB)

Topic:

AML & CFT - AML/CFT Controls

Fintech - Commercial data interchange

Operational Risk Management - Fraud risk management

Group:

All Authorized Institutions

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Annex

Current

09 Feb 2023

Annex - Optimising Fraud and Financial Crime Detection and Reporting

Annex

Current

09 Feb 2023

Enclosure - Guidance Paper on Transaction Monitoring, Screening and Suspicious Transaction Reporting (Revised in February 2023)

CIR

Current

08 Jul 2022

Hong Kong Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Risk Assessment Report 2022 (2022 HRA)

Annex

Current

09 Feb 2023

Annex - Optimising Fraud and Financial Crime Detection and Reporting

Annex

Current

09 Feb 2023

Enclosure - Guidance Paper on Transaction Monitoring, Screening and Suspicious Transaction Reporting (Revised in February 2023)

CIR

Current

08 Jul 2022

Hong Kong Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Risk Assessment Report 2022 (2022 HRA)

Version History

Superseded Document

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