Samoa regulates AML/CTF through the Samoa Financial Intelligence Unit under the Money Laundering Prevention Act. See the obligations and how MemberCheck supports them.
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Samoa regulates money laundering and terrorist financing through the Money Laundering Prevention Act 2007 and the Counter Terrorism Act 2014, supported by the Samoa Financial Intelligence Unit, which receives and analyses suspicious transaction reports.
Regulated entities must apply customer due diligence, identify beneficial owners, monitor relationships, and report suspicious activity to the FIU, alongside supervision from the Central Bank of Samoa. Supervisors expect a designated compliance officer, sound internal controls, and staff training.
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.
Samoa's financial intelligence unit, operating within the Central Bank of Samoa. It receives and analyses suspicious transaction reports, and is responsible for the regulation, supervision, and enforcement of AML/CTF requirements.
Samoa's principal AML statute, setting customer due diligence, recordkeeping, and reporting obligations for financial institutions and other reporting entities.
The central bank administers the Money Laundering Prevention Act, and its Governor is the appointed Money Laundering Prevention Authority. It supervises banks and other licensed financial institutions for AML/CTF compliance, working through the FIU.
Samoa is a member of the Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering, a FATF-style regional body, and aligns its regime with the FATF 40 Recommendations through that membership.
Both roles sit with the Central Bank of Samoa. Its Governor is the Money Laundering Prevention Authority appointed under the Money Laundering Prevention Act, and the Samoa Financial Intelligence Unit, which operates within the central bank, is responsible for the regulation, supervision, and enforcement of AML/CTF requirements as well as for receiving and analysing suspicious transaction reports.
The Money Laundering Prevention Act sets the customer due diligence, recordkeeping, and reporting obligations for regulated entities in Samoa.
Samoa is a member of the Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering (APG), a FATF-style regional body, and aligns its AML/CTF regime with the FATF 40 Recommendations through that membership.
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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