UAE AML/CFT Executive Regulation

Article 29 — Article (29)

Chapter Two: Financial Institutions, Designated Non-Financial Businesses and Professions, Virtual Asset Service Providers, and Non-Profit Organizations · Part Two: Obligations Specific to Financial Institutions · Division Three: Wire Transfers

1. Intermediary Financial Institutions shall ensure that all originator and beneficiary information accompanies international Wire Transfers. 2. Where technical limitations prevent the originator and beneficiary information from remaining with an international Wire Transfer when such transfer is converted into a domestic Wire Transfer, the Intermediary Financial Institution receiving the international transfer shall retain a record containing all information received from the originating Financial Institution or from a foreign intermediary institution, in accordance with the provisions of Article (25) of this Resolution. 3. Intermediary Financial Institutions shall take reasonable and immediate measures to identify international Wire Transfers lacking required originator or beneficiary information, and shall establish risk-based policies and procedures to determine whether to execute, suspend, or reject such transfers, as well as the appropriate follow-up actions in respect thereof.

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