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The Financial Intelligence Unit, the supervision authority in this matter, is the Commission for the Prevention of Money laundering and Financial Crimes
(Servicio Ejecutivo de la Comisión de Prevención del Blanqueo de Capitales e Infracciones Monetarias (Sepblac)), with powers to request information from the European Central Bank (ECB) and national regulators.
As a designated service you need to ensure that you have an AML/CTF program in place.
There is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all AML/CTF program. Each reporting entity is unique and faces its own set of money laundering and terrorism funding risks. You must design a program that is unique to your needs. This gives you the freedom to choose how to fulfill your responsibilities and to implement stronger and/or additional controls where required.
All AML/CFT Programs must be based on risk assessment. Risk assessment serves as the basis for your whole AML/CFT program. Your program must explicitly illustrate the relationships between identified risk and the procedures, policies and controls relating to that risk.
The main AML/ CFT regulations in Spain are Law 10/2010 28th April of Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing Prevention and the Royal Decree 304/2014 5th May.
Under Spanish AML/ CFT regulations Obliged subjects must comply with:
Know Your Customer Procedures - prior to the establishment of business relationships or the execution of operations, obligated subjects must recognise the beneficial owners and take necessary steps to verify their identities
Customer Due Diligence Procedures
Enhanced Due Diligence Procedures - those business sectors, practices, goods, facilities, distribution or marketing networks, business relationships, customers, and operations that present a higher risk of money laundering or terrorist funding should be subjected to enhanced due diligence steps
Transaction Monitoring Procedures - obligated subjects must obtain information and conduct ongoing monitoring of the intended intent and essence of their business relationships with their customers, including a review of the operations carried out during that relationship.
Reporting Suspicious Transactions
Record Keeping
Obligated subjects must appoint a delegate before Sepblac, who is a Spanish resident, who works in the company's administration or management and will be responsible for meeting the information obligations
Obligated subjects must create an Internal Control Body (OCI), which must include representatives from all of the obligated subject's business areas and will be responsible for enforcing the anti-money laundering and anti-terrorism financing policies and procedures
Obligated subjects must sign a manual for the prevention of money laundering and terrorist funding that will be kept up to date and provide details on the internal control measures implemented. Sepblac will have access to the manual in order to carry out its supervision and inspection duties
Obligated subjects must take steps to ensure that their workers are aware of the provisions of AML Laws. To that end, they will approve an annual training programme on money laundering and terrorism funding prevention
Obligated subjects are required to investigate with particular attention any incident or activity, regardless of its size, that may be linked to money laundering or terrorist funding by its design, and to write down the results of the investigation.
Operations that indicate an apparent lack of correspondence with the existence, volume of activity, or operating background of the clients would be communicated to the Commission's Executive Service, given that there is no fiscal, technical, or company excuse for the performance of operations in the special review above.
Communications will be sent out as soon as possible and will include the following information:
Obligated Subjects must provide the documents and information that the Commission for the Prevention of Money Laundering and Monetary Offenses or its support bodies need in order to exercise their powers.
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* This page is intended as general information only and should not be relied on as the sole source of information for your AML obligations and AML program. Please visit your local regulatory authority sites for the latest relevant and full information.
