Events listed in Asset Management
Large increase in suspected cases of investment fraud in 2022
ID 21549
The Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority, Finansinspektionen (FI), has published a press release to inform of fraudulent investment activities during 2022 and to outline some common patterns in this context to help investors detect and protect themselves from such activities. Some key statistics and fraud patterns are noted below: 1. FI has issued a total of 3,471 warnings to or for firms and websites that ...
Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/156 of 23 January 2023 implementing ...
ID 21548
Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/156 in connection with sanction measures against persons, firms, or bodies being responsible for or associated with „the misappropriation of Tunisian State funds“ has been published in the Official Journal (OJ) of the EU. The Implementing Regulation amends the list of natural and legal persons, entities and bodies set out in Annex I, Section A of [Council Regulation (EU) No ...
Loan fee fraud partnership toolkit 2023 [pdf]
ID 21547
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published a „toolkit“ concerning so-called loan fee fraud. As with all toolkits published by the Authority, the material contained in this presentation may be used by „partner firms“ – that is firms supervised by the FCA and operating in this line of business – on their own websites or their social media to support the FCA in its ...
Insurance Stress Test 2022 feedback
ID 21546
The Prudential Regulation Authority, PRA, has published a Dear CEO Letter addressed at insurance undertakings to inform of the insurance stress test (IST) results 2022. According to the PRA, the key objectives of the 2022 stress tests was to assess the (financial) resilience of life insurers and general insurers, support the capacity building in the area of risk management, and provide sufficient evidence to ...
AIF Risikomanagement: Risiken im Fokus der BaFin
ID 21545
AIF Risikomanagement Die BaFin stellt sechs Hauptrisiken zusammen, die die Finanzstabilität bzw. die Integrität der Finanzmärkte in Deutschland am stärksten gefährden könnten, darunter Risiken durch abrupte Zinserhöhungen, Korrekturen an den Immobilien- und Finanzmärkten, Ausfall von Krediten, Cyberangriffe und Risiken aus unzureichender Geldwäscheprävention. Das geht aus ihrem Bericht mit dem Titel “Risiken im Fokus der BaFin 2023″ hervor. Die BaFin ergreift Maßn ...
Financial sanctions targets: list of all asset freeze targets
ID 21544
Following the publication of recent asset freezing measures with respect to persons, entities, and bodies that are engaged in or supportive of human rights abuses in Iran pursuant to Statutory Instrument SI 2019/134 (please see EventID 19267 in this context), a new consolidated version of the list containing the names of ALL parties currently subject to asset freezing measures in the UK was published ...
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Monaco should step up its efforts to investigate and prosecute money laundering, to ...
ID 21543
MONEYVAL has published the 5th round Mutual Evaluation Report (MER) on Monaco summarising the anti-money laundering counter financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) measures in place in Monaco as adopted by the MONEYVAL Committee at its 64th Plenary Session (5-9 December 2022). CONSOLIDATED ASSESSMENT RATINGS The updated Consolidated assessment ratings provide an up-to-date overview of all assessed countries concerning the effectiveness and technical compliance with the ...
Iran-related Designations and Designation Update; Non-Proliferation Designation ...
ID 21542
The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has published a press release to inform about new sanction measures. Specifically, the Office added several individuals to its Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List (SDN List) pursuant to existing sanction regulations (Executive Order 13553) for their engagement in the Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) which is responsible for the brutal suppression of Iranian people ...
„Tokenizzazione di azioni e azioni tokens“: pubblicato nuovo Quaderno ...
ID 21541
Consob has published a new legal notebook (No. 25), focusing on the tokenization of shares and token shares. The notebook is divided into four chapters: 1. DLT and crypto-assets 2. Corporate and financial market aspects of crypto-assets 3. New token shares 4. The application of DLT in market infrastructures The first chapter discusses the concept of wealth tokenization, starting with the definition of crypto-assets ...
Wartungsfenster in goAML Web
ID 21540
In einer Publikation informiert die Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), dass wegen eines Wartungsfensters goAML Web am Samstag, 28.01.2023 bis einschließlich Sonntag, 29.01.2023 nicht erreichbar wird. „Fristfälle können per Fax an die FIU gesendet werden. Nutzen Sie bitte hierfür die Meldeformulare 033572 und 033573 im Formular-Management-System der Bundesfinanzverwaltung (FMS).“ Das ausgefüllte Formular ist per Fax an 0228 303-98551 zu übermitteln. Man wird gebete ...