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21 December 2022

AED AML Guidance For Covered Professionals

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In October 2022, the Administration des Enregistrements et des Domaines ("AED"), the supervisory authority in the AML/CFT field for a number of professionals subject to the...
Luxembourg Finance and Banking

In October 2022, the Administration des Enregistrements et des Domaines ("AED"), the supervisory authority in the AML/CFT field for a number of professionals subject to the AML Law of 12 November 2004, as amended, published a series of updated guides to assist those professionals under its supervision in their AML/CFT compliance effort. The 2022 guides were published for

A new guide was published for RAIF.

As the AED points out, the guides are of an indicative nature, describing the minimum requirements to be complied with by accounting professionals and tax advisers.

The guides contain, inter alia, a minimum checklist regarding customer identification and the entering into a business relationship as well as examples of forms that can support the KYC exercise.

Through the guides, the AED wishes to strengthen its approach in prevention and awareness-raising about AML/CFT compliance.

The AED underlines that professionals, while drawing inspiration from this practical guidance, still have to adapt their internal AML/CFT procedures according to the size, the activity of the company and the nature of their customers.

For more details on the RAIF guide, please refer to the Asset management and Investment funds section.

The content of this article is intended to provide a general guide to the subject matter. Specialist advice should be sought about your specific circumstances.

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