AML/CTF & Financial-Sanctions Legal Corpus — UN · AU · UK · US · EU · CA · SG · CH · HK · JP · AE (v1)

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Neutral legal concepts and the provisions across the corpus that address each. Tags are a model pass awaiting human review; they describe what a provision is about and take no doctrinal position.

customer_due_diligence (429)

Identifying and verifying customers and their circumstances (CDD/KYC/EDD).

beneficial_ownership (227)

Identifying the natural persons who ultimately own or control a customer.

risk_based_approach (150)

Assessing and mitigating money-laundering and terrorism-financing risk proportionately.

amlctf_program (233)

The governance, policies, and controls a reporting entity must maintain.

suspicious_matter_reporting (153)

Reporting suspicions to the financial intelligence unit (SMR/SAR).

threshold_transaction_reporting (112)

Reporting cash or other transactions at or above a set value.

funds_transfer_reporting (102)

Reporting international/cross-border funds transfer instructions (IFTI).

cash_couriers (82)

Cross-border movement of physical currency and bearer-negotiable instruments — declaration/disclosure at the border (FATF R.32).

record_keeping (293)

Retaining prescribed records for prescribed periods.

tipping_off (72)

Restrictions on disclosing that a report has been or may be made (disclosure offences).

designated_services (295)

Activities that bring an entity into the regime, including the Tranche 2 sectors.

enrolment_registration (704)

The obligation to enrol or register with the regulator.

correspondent_banking (81)

Obligations specific to cross-border correspondent banking relationships.

politically_exposed_persons (51)

Heightened measures for higher-risk public-office holders (PEPs).

virtual_assets (373)

Obligations for virtual-asset / digital-currency services (VASP/DCE).

sanctions_prohibitions (105)

Prohibited dealings with designated persons/entities or controlled assets.

sanctions_permits (32)

Authorisations/permits allowing an otherwise-prohibited act (licences).

asset_freezing (225)

Freezing of, and the prohibition on dealing with, controlled assets.

designation_criteria (113)

The legal criteria for designating or listing a person or entity.

un_and_autonomous_sanctions (70)

The UN and autonomous sanctions regimes and their relationship.

proliferation_financing (72)

Countering the financing of proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (FATF R.7; UNSCR 1540).

enforcement_and_offences (1729)

Consequences of contravention; civil penalties and offences.

supervisory_architecture (670)

FATF mutual evaluation; national regulators (AUSTRAC; DFAT) and their functions.

scope_and_application (187)

Who and what conduct the instrument reaches; extraterritorial application.

definitions_and_interpretation (567)

Defined terms and rules of interpretation.