Malta FIAU Implementing Procedures
Binding implementing procedures under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act and PMLFTR for subject persons.
- Issued by
- Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit
- Applies in
- Malta
- Edition
- Current, as published
- Area
- Financial crime (AML/CFT/CPF)
What an assessor reads first.
The headline requirements in Amoreg’s catalogue, in the issuer’s own numbering where it has one. They are where a review starts, not a transcription of the text.
- BRABusiness risk assessment, documented and board-approvedRisk assessment
- CDDCustomer due diligence and beneficial ownership at onboardingCustomer due diligence
- EDDEnhanced due diligence for PEPs and higher-risk relationshipsCustomer due diligence
- MONOngoing monitoring of relationships and transactionsMonitoring
- SCRSanctions and adverse-media screening, repeated on list updatesScreening
- SARInternal and external suspicious activity reportingReporting
- RECRecord keeping for the statutory retention periodRecords
- TRNFinancial crime training for all relevant staffTraining
How Amoreg keeps you on it.
Enable the Malta FIAU Implementing Procedures and add Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit’s pages as a monitor of your own. Every publication it records keeps its source, stage and date.
Inspector reads your policies against these 8 requirements every week and opens a finding wherever one falls short, citing the rule and drafting the fix. A person decides what is applied.
Each week
- Read Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit’s pages
- Check the library against 8 requirements
- Open findings with drafted fixes
- Wait for a person to decide
Policy does not yet set out: business risk assessment, documented and board-approved
- Rule
- Malta FIAU Implementing Procedures, BRA
- Area
- Risk assessment
- Proposed by
- Inspector
- Decided by
- A named person, once reviewed
The same ground, elsewhere.
- FATF RecommendationsThe 40 Recommendations — the international standard every national AML/CFT/CPF regime is measured against.Global · 8 controls
- Wolfsberg Group StandardsIndustry standards for correspondent banking, the CBDDQ/FCCQ questionnaires and effectiveness-based AML programmes.Global · 4 controls
- GFSC Handbook on Countering Financial Crime (AML/CFT/CPF)The Bailiwick's AML/CFT/CPF rules and guidance for financial services businesses and prescribed businesses, issued under the Criminal Justice (Proceeds of Crime) regulations.Guernsey · 8 controls
- JFSC AML/CFT/CPF HandbookHandbook for the prevention and detection of money laundering, terrorist financing and proliferation financing under the Money Laundering (Jersey) Order 2008.Jersey · 8 controls
- Isle of Man AML/CFT Code 2019The Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism Code 2019, with the FSA's AML/CFT Handbook as guidance.Isle of Man · 8 controls
- Cayman Islands Anti-Money Laundering RegulationsThe AMLRs under the Proceeds of Crime Act, read with CIMA's Guidance Notes — departure from the Guidance Notes without justification is treated as non-compliance.Cayman Islands · 8 controls
Questions
Does Amoreg watch for changes to the Malta FIAU Implementing Procedures?
Enable it and add the issuer’s pages as a monitor of your own. Every publication the Monitor records keeps its source, stage and date.
Can Amoreg check our policies against the Malta FIAU Implementing Procedures?
Yes. Inspector reads your library against its requirements every week and opens a finding, with the rule it cites and a proposed fix, wherever a policy falls short. A person decides what is applied.
Which edition does Amoreg use?
The current edition as published by the issuer, last verified in August 2026; the Monitor records new publications as they appear.