South Africa participated in the third meeting of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) session XXVIII, under the Spanish Presidency in Valencia from 18 to 23 June 2017. At this meeting the FATF continued work on a number of important initiatives relating to its mandate to promote effective implementation of measures against money laundering, terrorist financing and other related threats to the integrity of the international financial system.

The Financial Intelligence Centre is today publishing draft guidance to initiate a discussion with accountable institutions on the guidance that will be required to implement the new provisions that will become part of the FIC Act when the relevant sections of the FIC Amendment Act come into operation on 2 October 2017.

A fraudulent e-mail notice and ‘FUND TRANSFER STOP ORDER’ certificate and bearing the Financial Intelligence Centre’s (FIC’s) brand has surfaced.