Examples of using A reporting entity in English and their translations into Serbian
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(b) An entity is related to a reporting entity if any of the following.
A reporting entity may assess money laundering risk separately from the terrorism financing risk.
After consideration of all relevant factors, a reporting entity draws a conclusion on risk levels.
Management approves the internal policies and procedures andthey apply to all employees in a reporting entity.
A reporting entity determines, on their own, customer-risk-based approach, following the generally accepted principles and own experience.
B9 Some instruments are designed to transfer risk from a reporting entity to another entity. .
When risks are classified, a reporting entity may, taking into account own characteristic features, also define additional levels of risk from money laundering and terrorism financing.
Based on the information and data from the risk analysis, they are entered into the risk matrix and as a final result,the ML/TF risk level of a reporting entity is determined.
For example, when establishing a business relation a reporting entity assesses the type of customer the entity establishes business relations with.
Moreover, whether the reporting entity has recognized situations in which a client has come under investigation at a later point, but at the moment of transaction was not recognized as risky, and whether a reporting entity could have had the information or not.
For example, assessment andappraisal of risk depends on the location of a reporting entity, their organizational units, which means it will differ with reporting entities located in cities and towns.
A reporting entity collects information about the origin of assets from a customer and, undertaking reasonable measures, additionally verifies the information through available sources(for example: bank account statement, sale contract, inheritance documents etc).
The established business policies and procedures should enable effective management of recognized risks and their mitigation. A reporting entity is to focus on the area of operation mostly susceptible to different types of misuse in order to prevent money laundering and terrorism financing.
In order to assess risk, a reporting entity should describe all products, services, contractual relations it enters into and to assess the probability whether the customers would abuse the product/service for money laundering or terrorism financing, and to assess the effect of such probability in a way similar to which it assesses the described customer risk.
The goals and principles of money laundering and terrorism financing risk management should enable reporting entities to determine appropriate business policy and procedures, including rules on general customer due diligence actions and measures applied, promoting high ethical and professional standards and preventing the misuse of business activities of a reporting entity for criminal activities.
In order toassess the exposure of a reporting entity to ML/TF risk, a reporting entity must know each segment of operation where a threat from money laundering and terrorism financing might appear i.e.
Risk analysis comprises analysis of risk relative to the entire operation of a reporting entity, and risk analysis for each group or type of customer i.e. business relationship, or service reporting entity provides within their business activity, or transaction.
If a reporting entity has customers with complex ownership structures, but their number is inconsiderable or they have no considerable volumes of business, although the customer would entail high risk due to its complex ownership structure, the effect on business of the reporting entity is negligible, and from the aspect of a reporting entity the risk could be categorized as low.
Calibration ensures thatthe valuation technique reflects current market conditions, and it helps a reporting entity to determine whether an adjustment to the valuation technique is necessary(for example, there might be a characteristic of the asset or liability that is not captured by the valuation technique).
In this regard, a reporting entity may use lists issued by the IMF, World Bank or a list of countries from the Rulebook governing a list of jurisdictions with a preferential tax system(Official Gazette of RS, No 122/12), in order to establish whether a person is off-shore for example, for a broker-dealer company a high risk customer will be the customer performing agreed block transactions in shares, especially when the buyers are unknown, newly-formed companies from off-shore destinations.
The risk matrix is a tabular overview of information about different types of risk, categorized per activities of a reporting entity, to structural and inherent risk, and overview of effectiveness of the ML/TF risk management by the reporting entity, the trend of the established risk, relative to the previously observed period.
In this example,if most of the customers of a reporting entity are small or middle legal persons, regardless of their simple ownership structure, the effect on the reporting entity and its reputation could be large and therefore the risk assessment would be high at the level of the reporting entity. .
Accordingly, in the consolidated financial statements, a reporting entity continues to recognise such an exchange difference in profit or loss or, if it arises from the circumstances described in paragraph 30.13, the entity shall recognise it as other comprehensive income.
Exchange differences arising on a monetary item that forms part of a reporting entity's net investment in a foreign operation shall be recognised in profit or loss in the separate financial statements of the reporting entity or the individual financial statements of the foreign operation, as appropriate.
The risk matrix is a tool in application of the approach based on risk assessment of a reporting entity, and a reporting entity must take into consideration the information and data when assessing risk of own operations for example, previously adopted measures by supervisory authorities, reports by authorized auditors, stock exchange information etc.
Effectiveness of the ML/TF risk management by a reporting entity is assessed based on the established quality control system and risk management system. And it is observed in terms of the following levels of activities of a reporting entity: Corporate governance, risk management, internal bylaws, internal control, compliance, reporting and training.
Having compiled a comprehensive andwide list, a reporting entity can discern which of the factors is not sufficiently significant for the reporting entity or maybe the situation may be that the reporting entity is not offering a product recognized at the level of the state as risky, or certain models of behavior are not characteristic of the reporting entity. .
If a customer is a legal person with complex ownership structure, a reporting entity is required to obtain a written statement on reasons for such structure from beneficial owners or customer representatives, to consider whether there are reasons for suspicion of money laundering or terrorism financing, to make an official record thereof, which shall be kept in accordance with the Law.