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Trust or company service provider guidance for money laundering supervision

How to meet your anti-money laundering obligations and recognise risks to prevent money laundering, terrorist financing and proliferation financing if you're a trust or company service provider.

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Trust or company service provider guidance for money laundering supervision

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Trust or company service providers must meet their requirements for money laundering supervision, including:

  • customer due diligence
  • record keeping
  • reporting suspicious activity

Updates to this page

Published 16 October 2010
Last updated 19 November 2025 show all updates
  1. Guidance about risks common to trust or company service providers has been added.

  2. Information about proliferation financing has been added.

  3. The guidance for trust or company service providers has been amended to reflect the regulations for money laundering supervision.

  4. A link to 'Understanding risks and taking action for Trust or Company Service Providers' has been added.

  5. This guidance was finalised on 7 March 2018 and has been approved by HM Treasury.

  6. This guidance has been updated to reflect legislation changes effective from 26 June 2017.

  7. First published.

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