Thirty days, not 31 March
The Cyprus Bar Association issued Circular 01/2026 on 7 January 2026, through its Supervision and Compliance Department, to all members and obliged…
The Cyprus Bar Association issued Circular 01/2026 on 7 January 2026, through its Supervision and Compliance Department, to all members and obliged…
AMLA is consulting on the rules that will decide how your supervisor rates your firm, and for a small Cyprus practice that rating will normally be…
AMLA has harmonised the reasoning behind an enforcement decision rather than the price of one, and the provision that will decide most Cyprus files puts a…
Six years after the FATF brought virtual-asset service providers inside the global AML framework, most of the world has still not finished implementing…
The USA line in a Cyprus country-risk section is usually the emptiest one in the file: everyone assumes the answer, so nobody writes it down. As of the…
Trust and company service providers sit in an unusual position: the sector's everyday product — companies, trusts, multi-jurisdiction structures — is the…
Real estate is repeatedly assessed as high-risk for money laundering for a structural reason: property absorbs large sums in a single transaction, holds…
Virtual assets move value across borders in minutes, can be held pseudonymously, and sit outside the traditional banking rails — a combination regulators…
Money-laundering risk is never a single number. Under the FATF risk-based approach, the EU AML Directives and Cyprus Law 188(I)/2007, a firm must run a…
The last 14 days on the sanctions lists, 28 July – 10 August 2026: 1122 changes — 323 additions, 130 removals and 669 amendments across the EU, OFAC, UK…
Screening a single name tells you about that name. But money-laundering risk in a corporate client rarely sits on the front company — it sits somewhere in…
Geographic risk comes before everything else in an AML file: is the client, the owner, or the money connected to a listed jurisdiction? Four public lists…
The CBA's 8th edition ASP guidance is the only item this week that touches a file you'll actually sign. Published 04/08/2026, it's the most significant…
firm.cy is now on Telegram. Daily sanctions-list changes across the EU, OFAC, UK and UN lists, the weekly dissection, and CPD training announcements …
19 names came off the sanctions lists in the week of 3–7 August 2026. 7 of them came off under the EU's Iran programme (EU-IRN). A removal is not an…
The week dissected, 3–7 August 2026: 39 additions, 19 removals and 623 amendments across the EU, OFAC, UK and UN lists. Who the entries concern: 539…
Cyprus is a shipping jurisdiction, and shipping is a sector where ordinary practice — per-vessel SPVs, flags of convenience, cargo documents that change…
Screening a client once is a snapshot; the lists keep moving. Since firm.cy began publishing the daily sanctions changelog on 28 July, the lists have…
Geographic risk starts from three public lists, and they are not the same list. The FATF black list (call for action): 3 jurisdictions — Iran, North…
We built FIRMCY for our own AML files first. Ioannou & Sharpe is a licensed Cyprus law firm — an obliged entity like the firms we act for — and the…
9 added, 19 removed on the sanctions lists on 6 August 2026. The bulk landed in the EU's Iran programme (EU-IRN, 10 entries). Top country by count: Iran…
"Greece, EU member, low risk" is a conclusion, not an assessment — and supervisors have stopped accepting the difference. Greek exposure runs through…
The week on the sanctions lists, 27 July – 2 August 2026: 252 additions, 103 removals and 46 amendments across the EU, OFAC, UK and UN lists. The movement…
New EU Commission and UN Security Council restrictive measures. Three developments require attention this week. The European Commission and the UN…
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