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On 21 December 2017, the Joint Money Laundering Steer Group published a revised version of its Guidance on the prevention of money laundering and the financing of terrorism for the U.K. financial services industry.
On 21 December 2017, the Joint Money Laundering Steer Group
published a revised version of its Guidance on the prevention of
money laundering and the financing of terrorism for the U.K.
financial services industry. This follows feedback to its November
2017 consultation on proposed amendments to its June 2017
Guidance.
Although the amended Guidance will only take over the
"legal" status of the existing Guidance once it has been
approved by a Treasury Minister, firms are free to use the
provisions of the new Guidance immediately, if they wish to do
so.
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