CANADA’S FIU REQUESTS STRS VIA GENERIC MESSAGING SERVICE AFTER HACK TAKES DOWN IN-HOUSE FILING SYSTEM
April 29th, 2024
Canada’s FIU FINTRAC has asked obliged entities to file their most sensitive STRs via a commercial file sharing system offered by Canada Post, after the AML agency was hacked in March. FINTRAC has since suspended its in-house secure web-messaging service, preventing it from receiving STRs via the usual channels.
This has raised concern about Canadian AML/CFT being starved of information. As a result, FINTRAC guidance sent on April 18, obtained by MLB, has told obliged entities to send urgent and important STRs by ‘Canada Post Connect’ (1), if they cannot ...
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