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Update on Business Registry and Developments 2022
ACRA cancels Registered Qualified Individual Lew Chian Hwa and Registered Filing Agent SGCN Link Pte LTd for breaching ACRA (Filing Agent and Qualified Individuals) Regulations
ACRA suspends Registered Qualified Individual R Shanmugaratam for false information filed with ACRA
ACRA bars Registered Filing Agent MEA Business Consultancy Pte Ltd for multiple AML/CFT breaches
AML/CFT Guidelines for Corporate Service Providers
Registration and Renewal for Filing Agents and Qualified Individuals
Background to Filing Agent and Qualified Individual
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Procedure to Register or Renew Registration as a Qualified Individual
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Appointment or Withdrawal of Qualified Individual
Change in Particulars of Filing Agent and Qualified Individual
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Maintenance of Client List
Legislation and Guidelines
AML/CFT Guidelines for Corporate Service Providers
Legislation
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Resources
Unmasking Control - A Guide to Beneficial Ownership Transparency by the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
(PDF, 1MB)
How nominee services for shell companies are abused to conceal beneficial owners
- A report by the Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative (StAR), a partnership between the World Bank Group and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
(PDF, 4.94MB)
FATF Egmont Group Report - Concealment of Beneficial Ownership
ACIP - Legal Persons Misuse Typologies and Best Practices Paper
(PDF, 1.61MB)
Update on Business Registry and Regulatory Developments 2022
Update on Business Registry and Regulatory Developments 2021
Useful links for AML/CFT
Singapore’s Terrorism Financing National Risk Assessment 2020
(PDF, 3MB)
Trade-Based Money Laundering Trends and Developments
(PDF, 2MB)
Targeted financial sanctions
- Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS)
Inter-Ministerial Committee - Terrorist Designation (IMC-TD)
- Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA)
Singapore National Risk Assessment
(PDF, 988KB)
Guidelines on STR Reporting
- Singapore Police Force (SPF)
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