FAQ

Question
Prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing
	Other
	Can financial institutions wanting to install new technological solution to manage money laundering and terrorist financing (ML/TF) risks request the Bank of Lithuania (LB) to judge its acceptability and compliance with the requirements of the Law on the Prevention of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (hereinafter ‘the Law’) (in customer identification and verification, monitoring of financial operations and other stages)? If yes, can you briefly outline the procedure? If no, can you tell what other ways there are for the supervised entities to assess the applied technological solution’s compliance of with the Law and LB recommendations?
	While performing Ongoing Due Diligence on customer and beneficial owner, can financial market participant use data available in reliable external sources as the primary source? For example, data on the type of activity, management structure, manager (managers), beneficial owner, etc.
	What is the difference between the simplified customer due diligence case laid down in Article 9(4) of the Law on Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (hereinafter – Law) and the case in Article 15(1)(7) of the Law?
	How frequently does information about the customer and the beneficial owner need to be updated?