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HKEC Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited Source document ↗
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited Financial Crime ✓ 11 claims 29 Oct 2026

HKSCC flags updated UN terrorist and ISIL/Al-Qaida sanctions lists to participants

Hong Kong Securities Clearing Company has told its participants that updated sanctions and terrorist designation lists were published on 27 October 2026. This is a short screening notice rather than a rule change, but it carries a live compliance obligation: participants must reconcile their screening against the current designations under two separate Hong Kong legal instruments.

  • Updated designation lists under Cap. 575 and Cap. 537CB were published on 27 October 2026.
  • The terrorist and terrorist associate list appears in the Gazette; the ISIL and Al-Qaida list appears on the CEDB website.
  • HKSCC issued circular LSD/074/2026 on 29 October 2026 directing participants to both official sources.
  • Participants are advised to consult their legal advisers if in doubt about the lists.
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BRDR Brdr.Hkma Source document ↗
Hong Kong Brdr.Hkma Financial Crime ✓ 21 claims 22 Oct 2026

HKMA tells banks to harden account-opening controls against staff bribery

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority has written to all Authorized Institutions after recent cases in which criminal syndicates bribed bank staff to circumvent money-laundering controls during account opening. The 22 October 2026 circular reminds banks of the controls it expects and flags detailed industry guidance now in development with the Hong Kong Association of Banks and the ICAC.

  • Recent cases involved criminal syndicates bribing AI staff to bypass AML/CFT controls and open money mule accounts during account opening.
  • AIs should apply segregation of duties and the four-eyes principle, and distribute applications to checking staff on a rotating basis so one person does not handle multiple applications from the same customer or third party.
  • Third-party agents introducing or assisting clients must trigger enhanced controls including thorough due diligence, rigorous approval scrutiny and robust management oversight.
  • AIs should review account-opening controls for bribery vulnerabilities through a gap analysis, with clear senior-management responsibility assigned.
  • The Hong Kong Association of Banks, with HKMA and ICAC support, is developing detailed guidance on preventing staff bribery and corruption.
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BRDR Brdr.Hkma Source document ↗
Hong Kong Brdr.Hkma Financial Crime ✓ 17 claims 19 Oct 2026

HKMA tells banks to close gaps on high-end money laundering after thematic review

The HKMA has issued a circular to all Authorized Institutions setting out findings from a thematic review of controls against sophisticated money laundering. It describes two live typologies, five areas needing enhancement, and asks firms to run a gap analysis. For heads of financial crime, it signals where HKMA supervisors will probe next, particularly on retail high-net-worth customers and source-of-wealth corroboration.

  • The HKMA identified two typologies: syndicates using retail accounts as a gateway to move funds across wealth management and private banking, and criminals using citizenship-by-investment nationalities to open accounts across jurisdictions for cross-border transfers.
  • Reviewers found retail high-net-worth customers were subject to weaker CDD than private banking clients despite very similar ML/TF risk, and want periodic portfolio monitoring with proportionate additional measures.
  • Some front-line staff overrelied on customer representations when establishing source of wealth and funds, without challenging reasonableness or seeking corroborating documentation.
  • Certain transaction monitoring alerts were closed without sufficient justification, including those triggered by opaque cash or cashier's order deposits and transactions with no customer nexus.
  • AIs are directed to conduct a gap analysis against the five enhancement areas and consider optimising their AML/CFT controls.
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BRDR Brdr.Hkma Source document ↗
Hong Kong Brdr.Hkma Financial Crime ✓ 19 claims 19 Oct 2026

HKMA rewrites remote on-boarding rules for individual customers, citing deepfake fraud

The HKMA has updated its expectations for remotely on-boarding individual customers, replacing two earlier circulars. It restates two core principles for identity authentication and matching, warns specifically about deepfake-enabled impersonation and mule accounts, and tells authorized institutions and stored value facility licensees to review their systems against intelligence shared with the Hong Kong Police Force.

  • The circular supersedes the HKMA's remote on-boarding circulars of 1 February 2019 and 24 May 2021 for individual customers.
  • The 2020 corporate on-boarding circular and the June 2020 thematic-review feedback circular remain applicable and should be read alongside this letter.
  • Firms must satisfy two core principles: verifying the genuineness of identity documents and incontrovertibly linking the customer to that identity.
  • The HKMA cites deepfake technology, AI-driven automation and mule-account networks as escalating ML/TF threats to remote on-boarding.
  • AIs and SVF licensees are told to conduct a comprehensive review of remote on-boarding solutions, systems and oversight.
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SFC SFC Hong Kong Source document ↗
SFC Hong Kong Financial Crime ✓ 12 claims 16 Oct 2026

SFC to hold two AML/CFT webinars for intermediaries on 12-13 November 2026

The SFC has announced a two-session AML/CFT webinar covering regulatory updates, supervisory observations, scam typologies and suspicious transaction reporting feedback. Compliance officers and management with AML/CFT responsibility should note the enrolment deadline and the firm-level cap on attendee numbers before registering.

  • The SFC will host AML/CFT webinar sessions on 12 and 13 November 2026 via Zoom.
  • Each firm may submit only one enrolment form, due by 27 October 2026.
  • Enrolment is capped at a maximum of two representatives per firm.
  • Places are allocated first-come, first-served, with first nominees prioritised ahead of second nominees.
  • Attendees completing the whole session can earn 2.5 Continuous Professional Training hours.
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SFC SFC Hong Kong Source document ↗
SFC Hong Kong Financial Crime ✓ 18 claims 11 Oct 2026

SFC fines Zheng Da $7 million over client-supplied trading systems and AML control gaps

The SFC fined a Hong Kong futures broker and suspended its responsible officer over anti-money-laundering failures tied to client-supplied trading systems connected via API. Worth a few minutes to see how CSS-through-API arrangements and the Manager-In-Charge regime are being enforced, and why carrying on despite peer enforcement aggravated the outcome.

  • Zheng Da reprimanded and fined $7 million for AML/CFT and other failures between 1 December 2021 and 30 September 2023.
  • Responsible officer Zhong Hao suspended for seven months, from 28 September 2026 to 27 April 2027.
  • SFC found no due diligence or testing on customer-supplied systems used by 160 clients, and 176 undetected same-second matched buy/sell orders.
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