Guide to Comply with Canada’s Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Legislation helps you deal with changes in 2014 in AML regulatory requirements of reporting entities under Canada’s Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act (PCMLTFA).
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changes to Canada’s AML legislation
practical guidance for AML compliance that is relevant to:
accountants
accounting firms
Update your knowledge of anti-money laundering and anti-terrorist financing obligations for accountants and accounting firms under the PCMLTFA legislation and its regulations, and receive additional guidance based on the results of FINTRAC’s past examinations.
The Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC), the regulator in charge of Canada’s anti-money laundering and anti-terrorist financing (AML and ATF) regime, has indicated to Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada (CPA Canada) that the accounting sector’s AML and ATF compliance efforts require improvement. This alert provides a summary of the obligations for accountants and accounting firms under the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act (PCMLTFA) and its regulations, and examines the consequences of non-compliance.
The alert provides additional guidance based on the results of FINTRAC’s past examinations of accountants and accounting firms. The publication also directs readers to more detailed AML and ATF compliance guidance issued by CPA Canada in 2014, A Guide to Comply with Canada’s Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Legislation.
Bribery is justifiably condemned, and is the object of a global legal
campaign. This article asks whether payment of a bribe can ever be
justified. In order to answer that question, the article first looks at three
tropes of reasons for criminalizing bribery: as a reflection of morality, to
preserve the connection between people and their government, and to
prevent harm. The article then examines and dismisses two common
excuses for bribery: the need to pay a bribe to conduct business, and the
optimal level of legal enforcement. The article then examines arguments
for paying bribes in authoritarian regimes, and concludes that such
arguments must be treated with caution. Finally, the article considers
bribes paid by Oskar Schindler to save the lives of Jewish workers.
Schindler’s bribes demonstrate that some bribes can be justified. Such
bribes do not present a new checklist for evaluating bribery, nor do they
represent a new trope of thinking. Rather, unique circumstances raise such
bribes above the rules against and concerns about paying bribes.
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