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NEWS & UPDATESODCE Annual Report 2020
The Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement (ODCE) recently published their Annual Report for 2020. The...
In excess of 100 companies registered at Dublin family home
A recent article by the Independent revealed that a Rathfarnham family home address had been used in the registration...
The New AML Regulator for Europe
The European Union has for some time, been trying to work out how best to combat financial crime that impacts EU...
Beneficial Ownership – more consistency needed in the EU
In a May 2021 report by Transparency International (TI) called ‘Access Denied? Availability and Accessibility of...
Low Levels of Suspicious Transaction Reports
According to statistics quoted by Chartered Accountants Ireland recently, there are over 2,100 entities registered to...
Oops Non-Compliance
In last week’s blog we alerted readers to the first of the two types of anomaly that ‘designated persons’ are obliged...
Don’t tell me about Discrepancies
In last week’s blog we alerted readers to the two types of anomaly that can occur on the Register of Beneficial...
Are you the Beneficial Owner?
The Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) Acts 2010 to 2021 contains the latest list of new...
Money Laundering Crimes up over 100%
A recent The Irish Times report shows that recorded money laundering crimes more than doubled since the start of...
New AML Manual Published
Readers of our regular blog will be delighted to hear that our new Anti-Money Laundering & Terrorist Financing...
New AML Law Extends List of Red Flag Transactions
In our last blog, we mentioned the enactment of the latest AML legislation in Ireland which is the ‘Criminal Justice...
AML Legislation – The Latest
Are your engagement letters up to date? Probably not! No sooner had we given our letters of engagement on the website...