Amendments to FIN-FSA regulations and guidelines 2/2023: Preventing Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing – as of 1 September 2023, the scope of application also covers certain credit providers and credit intermediaries

The Financial Supervisory Authority (FIN-FSA) has made amendments to regulations and guidelines 2/2023: Preventing Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing. The amendments are related to the Act on the Registration of Certain Credit Providers and Credit Intermediaries (186/2023), which entered into force on 1 July 2023 and brought traders falling within the scope of application of the Act under supervision by the FIN-FSA. Following the amendments, the scope of application of the regulations and guidelines also covers traders falling within the scope of application of the Act on the Registration of Certain Credit Providers and Credit Intermediaries.

Entry into force of the amendments to the regulations and guidelines.

The amendments to the regulations and guidelines enter into force on 1 September 2023.

For further information, please contact

• Until 28 July 2023: Pekka Vasara, Head of Division, telephone +358 9 183 5513 or pekka.vasara(at)fiva.fi
• As of 28 July 2023: Jonna Ekström, Chief Legal Counsel, telephone +358 9 183 5531 or jonna.ekstrom(at)fiva.fi

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Regulations and guidelines 2/2023 Preventing Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing