Highlights
Registration and Renewal for Filing Agents and Qualified Individuals
- Background to Filing Agent and Qualified Individual
- Registration and Renewal of Registration as a Filing Agent
- Procedure to Register or Renew Registration as a Filing Agent
- Registration and Renewal of Registration as a Qualified Individual
- Procedure to Register or Renew Registration as a Qualified Individual
- Cancellation of Registration as a Filing Agent or Qualified Individual
- Exemption from Requirement to Register as a Filing Agent or Qualified Individual
- Mandatory Training and Proficiency Test Requirements for Registered Filing Agents
Making Changes
- Appointment or Withdrawal of Qualified Individual
- Change in Particulars of Filing Agent and Qualified Individual
- Maintenance of Employees by Filing Agent and Qualified Individual
- Maintenance of Client List
Legislation and Guidelines
Supervision and Enforcement
- Compliance Review
- Enforcement and Compliance
- Publication of Sanctions
- List of Filing Agents/Qualified Individuals with registration cancelled/suspended
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
- Strengthening AML/CFT Controls for the CSP Sector 2023 (PDF, 456KB)
- CSP Search - To check the registration status of Filing Agents and Qualified Individuals
Useful links for AML/CFT
- FATF Guidance on Beneficial Ownership for Legal Persons (PDF, 1MB)
- FATF Guidance on Proliferation Financing Risk Assessment and Mitigation (PDF, 1.2MB)
- National Strategy for Countering the Financing of Terrorism (PDF, 1MB)
- Proliferation Financing National Risk Assessment (PDF, 822KB)
- FATF Guidance for a Risk-Based Approach for Trust and Company Service Providers (PDF, 1.1MB)
- Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing Risk Assessment of Legal Persons in Singapore 2024 (PDF, 970KB)
- Singapore's Terrorism Financing National Risk Assessment 2024 (PDF, 6MB)
- 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)
- Money Laundering Risk Assessment Report Singapore 2024 (PDF, 1MB)
- Guidelines on STR Reporting - Singapore Police Force (SPF)
