Sweden · AML & KYC
Anti-money-laundering and customer-due-diligence obligations, regulated activities, and the official financial regulator.
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Anti-money-laundering duties implement the EU framework in Swedish law and fall on obliged entities across finance and several non-financial professions: customer due diligence, ongoing monitoring, record-keeping and reporting of suspicions. Finansinspektionen supervises financial firms, Bolagsverket maintains the beneficial-owner register that due diligence relies on, and suspicious activity is reported to the financial intelligence unit within the police.
- Obliged entities extend beyond banks to several non-financial professions.
- Finansinspektionen supervises financial firms; the police FIU receives reports.
- Beneficial-owner information is held at Bolagsverket and underpins due diligence.
Official authorities
- Finansinspektionen
Supervision of financial firms, including AML.
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