17 October 2025
    Supporting material to help you understand your money laundering obligations and stay compliant.
    
 
    
    8 August 2025
    As part of our risk-based supervisory work, we carry out desk-based reviews (DBRs) to ensure firms in scope of the MLRs are complying with their legal obligations under the legislation.
    
 
    
    5 August 2025
    The activities in scope of AML requirements are set by the Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations 2017 (as amended) (“the regulations”).
    
 
    
    24 February 2025
    Answers to a number of common questions about preventing money laundering and compliance with The Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations 2017 ('the regulations'). 
    
 
    
    5 August 2024
    Trust and company service providers (TCSPs) are at a high risk of being used for money laundering or terrorist financing.
    
 
    
    18 October 2023
    Help using the risk assessment template
    
 
    
    21 September 2023
    If your firm is intending to offer any of the services in scope, you need to get approval from us for the relevant people as defined in the regulations and tell us what services you are providing (eg TCSP work) first.
    
 
    
    3 April 2023
    We visit more firms rated as high risk but also low and medium-risk firms. Just because we are visiting does not necessarily mean we consider your firm to be high risk of a target for money laundering.
    
 
    
    21 February 2022
    The guidance on this page concerns reporting serious breaches of the Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (the MLRs) to us and your obligations to do so.
    
 
    
    2 December 2021
    MLCO and MLRO are the two anti-money laundering roles set out in the Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations 2017 (the regulations).