Rule · FI · 11 Jan 2018
Finansinspektionen amended its regulations and general guidelines (FFFS 2010:3) to update requirements for payment institutions and registered payment service providers. The revision mandates that business plans must detail measures against money laundering and terrorist financing, including risk assessments and internal procedures as required by the Anti Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Act. These regulations entered into force on 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 2010:3) regarding payment institutions and registered payment service providers; decided on 26 June 2017. Finansinspektionen prescribes pursuant to section 5, point 9 of the Payment Services Ordinance (2010:1008) that Chapter 2, section 21 of Finansinspektionen’s regulations and general guidelines (FFFS 2010:3) regarding payment institutions and registered payment service providers shall have the following wording.
Chapter 2
Section 21 The business plan shall set out how an undertaking intends to conduct
work on measures against money laundering and terrorist financing in its payment service operations. 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 2017:12 Published on 30 June 2017
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