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  4. 29 April 2024

    AML/CFT Enhanced Customer Due Diligence Guideline

    This guideline assists you to conduct enhanced customer due diligence (enhanced CDD) on your customers under the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) Act 2009 (the Act). Published October 2022.

  5. 29 April 2024

    Beneficial ownership guideline

    This guideline is to assist reporting entities in meeting the requirement to perform customer due diligence on the customer and beneficial owners of the customer under sections 11-26 of the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Act 2009 (‘the Act’).

  6. 23 April 2024

    liquidity risk management guide

    This FMA guide outlines how Managers and Supervisors can demonstrate they are effectively managing and overseeing liquidity risk.

  8. 4 October 2023

    Guidance for keeping proper climate related disclosure records

    This guidance note is for entities that have climate-related disclosure obligations under Part 7A of the Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013. It is intended to help climate reporting entities (CREs) meet their statutory requirement to keep proper climate-related disclosure records at all times.

  10. 7 July 2023

    Climate related disclosures implementation approach

    The Financial Sector (Climate-related Disclosures and Other Matters) Amendment Bill (CRD Bill) received Royal assent on 27 October 2021. This document briefly explains the Financial Sector (Climate-related Disclosures and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2021 (the CRD legislation) and outlines the Financial Markets Authority’s (FMA) implementation approach for the CRD regime over a period of approximately 4 years, through to 2025/26. It sets out the roles and responsibilities of the various government agencies, to help industry understand ‘who is doing what’ with regard to CRD.

  11. 26 June 2023

    CoFI Intermediated Distribution guidance note

    CoFI guidance note: Intermediated distribution. This guidance note is for financial institutions. It gives guidance on the FMA’s expectations when financial institutions distribute products and services through intermediaries.

  12. 26 June 2023

    CoFI intermediated distribution submissions report

    Submissions report: Proposed guidance on CoFI intermediated distribution. Collation of written feedback received as part of the FMA’s public consultation on the proposed CoFI (Conduct of Financial Institutions) guidance note on intermediated distribution.

  15. 4 April 2023

    Effective disclosure guidance

    This guidance note is for Issuers of securities under the Securities Act 1978 pursuant to the transitional provisions of the Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013. It is also for their directors and advisers. It gives guidance on the approach the Financial Markets Authority (FMA) intends to take in reviewing prospectuses and investment statements for compliance with the law.