Jordan regulates AML/CTF through the AML/CTF Unit at the Central Bank of Jordan and Law No. 20 of 2021. See the obligations and how MemberCheck supports them.
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Jordan regulates money laundering and terrorism financing through the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing Law No. 20 of 2021, which designates a supervisory authority for each sector, chiefly the Central Bank of Jordan and the Jordan Securities Commission. The Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing Unit at the Central Bank is the separate financial intelligence unit and receives and analyses suspicious transaction reports.
Financial institutions and designated non-financial businesses must run customer due diligence, identify beneficial owners, monitor transactions, and report suspicious activity to the AMLU. Supervisors expect documented risk assessments, sound record keeping, and controls proportionate to the risks a firm faces.
MemberCheck helps teams meet these obligations by screening customers and entities against global sanctions, PEP, and adverse-media data, verifying identities, and monitoring risk continuously, with a clear audit trail behind every decision.
Law No. 20 of 2021 designates a supervisory authority for each sector. The Central Bank of Jordan supervises banks, exchange houses, payment service providers, and insurers; the Jordan Securities Commission supervises the securities sector; designated non-financial businesses and professions answer to their own sector regulators and professional associations.
Jordan's financial intelligence unit, based at the Central Bank of Jordan. It receives, analyses, and disseminates suspicious transaction reports to competent authorities. It is not the compliance supervisor.
Jordan's principal AML statute, which repealed and replaced the earlier Law No. 46 of 2007. It sets customer due diligence, record-keeping, and suspicious transaction reporting duties for financial institutions and designated non-financial businesses.
Jordan is a member of the Middle East and North Africa Financial Action Task Force, a FATF-style regional body that promotes the FATF standards across the region.
Through its MENAFATF membership, Jordan aligns its framework with the international standards for customer due diligence, reporting, and supervision.
Law No. 20 of 2021 designates a supervisory authority for each sector. The Central Bank of Jordan supervises banks, exchange houses, payment service providers, and insurers, the Jordan Securities Commission supervises the securities sector, and designated non-financial businesses and professions answer to their own sector regulators and professional associations. The AML/CTF Unit (AMLU) at the Central Bank is the financial intelligence unit, and it receives and analyses suspicious transaction reports rather than examining firms for compliance.
The Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing Law No. 20 of 2021, which repealed and replaced the earlier Law No. 46 of 2007, is Jordan's principal AML statute, setting customer due diligence, record-keeping, and suspicious transaction reporting obligations.
Jordan is a member of MENAFATF, the FATF-style regional body for the Middle East and North Africa, and aligns its AML/CTF regime with the FATF 40 Recommendations.
MemberCheck screens customers and entities against global sanctions, PEP, and adverse-media data, verifies identities, and monitors risk continuously, with an audit trail behind every decision.
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