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Malaysia BIS Press Releases Financial Crime ✓ 13 claims 27 Oct 2026

BNM deputy governor cites two enforcement actions in DNFBP compliance address

A Bank Negara Malaysia deputy governor's welcoming remarks to the 2026 DNFBP Compliance Conference set out the central bank's current thinking on gatekeeper risk, citing recent enforcement cases and a 2027 national risk assessment. Compliance officers at law firms, company secretarial providers and other designated non-financial businesses should note the regulator's specific examples.

  • Bank Negara Malaysia and the Companies Commission of Malaysia took enforcement action against a company secretary for failing to submit suspicious transaction reports relating to foreign nationals suspected of involvement in an international scam syndicate.
  • A Labuan investment bank was subject to joint enforcement action by Bank Negara Malaysia and the Labuan Financial Services Authority over material deficiencies in customer due diligence and delays in submitting suspicious transaction reports.
  • A UNODC Transnational Organized Crime Threat Assessment for South-East Asia identifies lawyers and accountants among specialist facilitators operating on a contractual basis for criminal networks.
  • Bank Negara Malaysia will undertake the next iteration of its National Risk Assessment in 2027 to deepen assessment of money laundering and terrorism financing risks facing DNFBP sectors.
  • The speech marks 25 years since Malaysia's Anti-Money Laundering Act was enacted in 2001 and follows the recent conclusion of Malaysia's Mutual Evaluation.
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BNM Bank Negara Malaysia Source document ↗
Bank Negara Malaysia Markets & Infrastructure ✓ 26 claims 20 Oct 2026

Bank Negara mandates interoperable payments and bans proprietary QR schemes by June 2028

Bank Negara Malaysia has replaced its 2019 Interoperable Credit Transfer Framework with a broader regime covering account-to-account transfers, QR purchases and cross-border payments. It routes mandatory traffic through the shared infrastructure operated by PayNet, outlaws proprietary QR schemes, opens access to non-bank regulated entities and codifies consumer protection obligations. Most provisions bind from 30 June 2026, with phased deadlines beyond.

  • The framework takes effect on 30 June 2026 and supersedes the Interoperable Credit Transfer Framework issued on 23 December 2019.
  • Banking institutions and eligible e-money issuers must not operate proprietary QR code schemes and must fully phase out existing schemes by 30 June 2028, onboarding no new merchants during the transition.
  • Financial institutions must offer eligible domestic fund transfers up to RM5,000, funded from current, savings or e-money accounts, free to senders or recipients.
  • Operators of the shared payment infrastructure must grant objective, non-discriminatory, risk-based access, including to non-BNM-regulated entities, verified by independent external assessment.
  • Cross-border A2A and QR purchase obligations (paragraphs 9.3, 9.4, 9.8, 9.11) are tied to the live operationalisation date of the Nexus scheme, to be announced by BNM.
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BNM Bank Negara Malaysia Source document ↗
Bank Negara Malaysia Prudential & Capital ✓ 18 claims 19 Oct 2026

Bank Negara sets 4-hour downtime cap for critical banking systems in revised RMiT

Bank Negara Malaysia has reissued its Risk Management in Technology policy document, consolidating and superseding the 2023 RMiT and five other instruments. It sets hard availability metrics for critical systems, phased resilience deadlines through 2027, and governance obligations covering the board, a designated technology committee and a CISO. The scope reaches well beyond banks into insurers, takaful operators, e-money issuers, payment system operators and remittance institutions.

  • Critical systems must keep cumulative unplanned customer-facing downtime to no more than 4 hours on a rolling 12-month basis and no more than 120 minutes per incident.
  • Firms must implement early-warning mechanisms and establish stand-in processing arrangements by 30 September 2027, and escalate to senior management when disruptions affect 5% or more of expected daily customers or transaction volumes.
  • Service-availability track records must be disclosed quarterly within 15 calendar days of quarter-end, beginning 15 October 2027.
  • The board must designate a technology committee with at least one member holding technology experience, and the firm must designate a CISO independent of day-to-day technology operations.
  • The document supersedes the 1 June 2023 RMiT and five other instruments, and network device logs must be retained for at least three years.
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BNM Bank Negara Malaysia Source document ↗
Bank Negara Malaysia Markets & Infrastructure ✓ 19 claims 19 Oct 2026

Bank Negara finalises interoperable fund transfer rules, bans proprietary QR schemes

Bank Negara Malaysia has issued the final Interoperable Fund Transfer Framework policy document alongside a statement responding to industry feedback on the 2025 exposure draft. The segment covers the prohibition of proprietary QR schemes, the mandatory routing of transactions through the shared payment infrastructure, and the mandatory enablement of cross-border services. Payments and compliance teams at participating institutions should understand what is now fixed and what remains under discussion.

  • Proprietary QR code schemes are prohibited, with a two-year transition period for affected institutions to migrate to the interoperable scheme.
  • Participants must enable both domestic and cross-border services, with the cross-border mandate's effective date aligned to the Nexus go-live timeline.
  • Both on-us and off-us fund transfers via the QR code scheme must route through the shared payment infrastructure to support fraud detection and response.
  • The P2M interoperable QR mandate applies only to participants offering QR-based purchase services to the retail segment, including consumers and merchants.
  • Non-bank cross-border fund transfer services generally fall under the Money Services Business Act 2011, with BNM formalising a list of excluded businesses.
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AMLC Amlcft.Bnm Source document ↗
Malaysia Amlcft.Bnm Financial Crime ✓ 19 claims 19 Oct 2026

BNM issues plain-language AML/CFT guide for Malaysian DNFBPs and non-bank financial institutions

Bank Negara Malaysia has published a condensed AML/CFT/CPF guide aimed at designated non-financial businesses and professions and non-bank financial institutions. It walks these sectors through the main obligations under the AMLA and the dedicated policy document: KYC, sanctions screening, risk profiling, enhanced due diligence, suspicious transaction reporting and record retention, with the maximum penalties attached.

  • The guide binds DNFBPs and NBFIs including lawyers, accountants, trust companies, company secretaries, dealers in precious metals or stones, registered estate agents, licensed casinos and gaming outlets, moneylenders, pawnbrokers, and leasing and factoring businesses.
  • Firms must screen clients against the Ministry of Home Affairs (MOHA) and UNSCR sanctions lists covering terrorism, proliferation and other UN regimes, and on a positive name match must not commence business, freeze funds and block transactions.
  • Client risk profiling must assess four factors: client, product or service, geographical location and delivery channel, with enhanced due diligence applied to higher-risk clients.
  • Records, including KYC information, ID copies, transaction details and any STR analysis, must be kept for at least six years from termination of the business relationship.
  • Maximum penalties cited under AMLA sections 13, 14, 16 and 17 range up to a RM1 million fine and up to RM3 million or imprisonment up to five years or both.
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AMLC Amlcft.Bnm Source document ↗
Malaysia Amlcft.Bnm Financial Crime ✓ 22 claims 19 Oct 2026

Malaysia overhauls proliferation-financing sanctions directive, binding banks to risk-assessment regime

Malaysia's Strategic Trade Secretariat has reissued its directive on targeted financial sanctions relating to proliferation financing, enforced from 7 June 2024. It binds a broad list of reporting institutions supervised by Bank Negara Malaysia, Labuan FSA and the Securities Commission, and goes beyond list-screening to require a documented PF risk assessment and a counter-proliferation compliance programme. This segment sets out who it covers and what they must now have in place.

  • The amended directive was enforced on 7 June 2024 and replaces the version dated 13 April 2018, issued under section 6 of the Strategic Trade Act 2010.
  • It is legally binding on the reporting institutions listed in Appendix I, which span banks, insurers, money-services businesses, capital-market intermediaries and designated non-financial businesses.
  • Institutions must immediately freeze a confirmed designated person's funds without the prior approval of the Strategic Trade Controller or supervisory authority.
  • Positive matches must be reported upon determination, with periodic reporting on changes due by 15 January of the following calendar year.
  • Institutions must identify, assess and document their proliferation-financing risks and implement a counter-proliferation financing compliance programme with a compliance officer, training and independent audit.
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AMLC Amlcft.Bnm Source document ↗
Malaysia Amlcft.Bnm Financial Crime ✓ 24 claims 19 Oct 2026

Malaysia overhauls proliferation-financing sanctions directive, binds crypto custodians

Malaysia's Strategic Trade Secretariat has reissued its directive on targeted financial sanctions relating to proliferation financing, replacing the 2018 instrument. It restates freezing and screening duties tied to UN designations, adds explicit proliferation-financing risk-assessment and compliance-programme obligations, and applies across banks, insurers, DNFBPs, capital-market intermediaries and digital-asset service providers. Compliance teams should read it as a refreshed, legally binding baseline.

  • The TFS-PF (Amendment 2024) directive was enforced on 7 June 2024 and replaces the directive dated 13 April 2018, issued under section 6 of the Strategic Trade Act 2010.
  • Reporting institutions must freeze matched funds, assets and economic resources immediately, and the prior approval of the Strategic Trade Controller is not required to do so.
  • Institutions must screen their entire customer database, including dormant accounts, without delay upon a UNSC-published designation.
  • Institutions holding frozen or blocked funds must report changes to those funds by 15 January of the next calendar year using the Appendix III template.
  • Appendix I extends the obligations to licensed digital currency and digital token custodians and advisers, alongside banks, insurers, DNFBPs and Labuan entities.
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AMLC Amlcft.Bnm Source document ↗
Malaysia Amlcft.Bnm Financial Crime ✓ 26 claims 19 Oct 2026

Bank Negara tells reporting institutions to apply FATF June 2026 high-risk list

Bank Negara Malaysia has circulated the FATF's June 2026 statements to all reporting institutions under AMLA, restating the obligations attaching to DPRK, Iran and Myanmar, and updating the increased-monitoring list. The circular reiterates a risk-based approach and warns explicitly against de-risking or blanket exits of customer categories, including NPOs linked to listed jurisdictions.

  • DPRK and Iran remain subject to FATF calls for countermeasures and enhanced customer due diligence, and institutions must continue applying targeted financial sanctions under the relevant UN resolutions.
  • Myanmar stays subject to enhanced due diligence, and the FATF will consider countermeasures if no further progress is made by October 2026.
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina and Iraq were added to the FATF's grey list, while Algeria and Namibia were removed following significant progress.
  • BNM requires institutions to apply a risk-based approach and avoid de-risking or blanket exits of customer categories such as NPOs linked to listed jurisdictions.
  • For grey-list jurisdictions the FATF does not call for enhanced due diligence; institutions must assess each jurisdiction case-by-case in their risk assessments.
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BNM Bank Negara Malaysia Source document ↗
Bank Negara Malaysia Markets & Infrastructure ✓ 25 claims 19 Oct 2026

BNM reissues RENTAS foreign-currency settlement procedures, effective 1 September 2026

Bank Negara Malaysia has published the latest consolidated operational procedures for foreign-currency settlement in RENTAS, the country's real-time gross settlement system. The document sets out membership types, access channels, business hours, cut-off times, settlement finality and queue management for participants settling in supported foreign currencies. The live change in this version is cosmetic, but the consolidated text is now the operative reference for operations teams.

  • Version 1.8 takes effect 1 September 2026 and its sole substantive change replaces the signatory title 'Head' with 'Director' across nine appendices and participant forms.
  • Foreign-currency settlement runs 8.30am to 6.00pm, with cut-off times of 5.30pm for RMB and 6.00pm for USD, and all unsettled queued instructions cancelled at cut-off.
  • Participants using cloud-based SWIFT access (SAL2 or SAC) must submit an annual declaration to BNM by 31 January covering CSCF attestation and RMiT cloud compliance.
  • Paying participants must transmit payment instructions to RENTAS Host within 30 minutes of a customer instruction, except transactions failing regulatory, sanction or AML screening.
  • Participants requesting a cut-off extension acknowledge BNM may publicly disclose all information pertaining to the request.
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BNM Bank Negara Malaysia Source document ↗
Bank Negara Malaysia Markets & Infrastructure ✓ 19 claims 19 Oct 2026

BNM revises RENTAS retail-settlement balance rules and FRPS+ charges from 1 September

Bank Negara Malaysia has reissued the Operational Procedures for MYR settlement in RENTAS, effective 1 September 2026. Version 1.9 is a narrow but operationally material update touching the Near Real Time Settlement module's balance mechanics, third-party payment messaging and the fee schedule. If you run treasury or payments operations against a RENTAS settlement account, these changes affect intraday funding and cost.

  • Version 1.9 takes effect on 1 September 2026 and binds all RENTAS participants under section 35 FSA and section 45 IFSA.
  • Clause 38.15 revises the NRTS minimum-balance mechanism and calculation formula and updates the maximum-balance threshold.
  • Appendix II adds sweep-in and sweep-out charges and updates effective charges for FRPS+ utilisation and FRPS+ Overnight Charges.
  • Guideline I on MYR Third Party Payments adds guidance on the usage of IFT04 in pacs.009.001.08.
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BNM Bank Negara Malaysia Source document ↗
Bank Negara Malaysia Markets & Infrastructure ✓ 23 claims 19 Oct 2026

BNM reissues RENTAS and FAST participation rules, effective 1 September 2026

Bank Negara Malaysia has issued version 1.6 of the Participation Rules for Payments and Securities Services, the binding contract governing participants of RENTAS and FAST. The headline change is cosmetic, but the consolidated text carries substantive obligations added in recent revisions covering insolvency handling, continued access for institutions in resolution, and the new role of retail payments operators. Worth a few minutes for anyone operating a RENTAS or SSDS account.

  • Version 1.6 of the Participation Rules takes effect on 1 September 2026 and binds all participants of RENTAS and FAST.
  • The sole change in this version is Clause 40.1.3, which changes an officer designation from 'Head' to 'Director'.
  • An institution in PIDM resolution must retain continued access to RENTAS and cannot be suspended solely for entering resolution under section 98 of the PIDM Act.
  • Participants must formally notify their board or compliance committee of any breach of the Rules and submit incident reports to BNM on request.
  • BNM's aggregate liability to participants is capped at the highest annual fees and charges paid by any one participant in the preceding twelve months, excluding penalties and admission fees.
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