{"id":33722,"date":"2023-12-07T09:51:14","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T07:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stbb.co.za\/dev2\/?p=33722"},"modified":"2024-01-08T10:20:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T08:20:38","slug":"newsflash-news-from-the-fic-and-is-the-community-not-growing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stbb.co.za\/dev2\/newsflash-news-from-the-fic-and-is-the-community-not-growing\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsflash | News from the FIC &#8211; and is the community not growing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Accountable institutions would all have received a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fic.gov.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/2023.12-MR-Consequences-of-non-compliance.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Media Release<\/a> from the FIC earlier this week, dated 4 December 2023. It served mainly as a reminder of sanctions that may follow on non-compliance and that, should non-compliance in a specific instance also constitute a criminal offence, the matter will be referred to our criminal justice system.<\/p>\n<p>Generally, law firms, estate agencies, banks, money remitters, financial services providers, casinos and the other businesses defined as \u201caccountable institutions\u201d, had spent many hours this year gearing up towards compliance: Drafting RMCP\u2019s, submitting reports, ensuring training of staff, preparing for FIC inspections, and more.<\/p>\n<p>Figures provided in the media release reflect some of this activity. Below, we have compared it with the figures provided a year ago, to put it into context. Note that the 2022\/2023 figures relate to the year ending 31 March 2023 and it is therefore likely that the changes reflecting this year\u2019s intense activity on the FICA compliance front, will be spotted in the FIC\u2019s 2023\/2024 year report.<\/p>\n<table class=\"Table\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse;\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; width: 377px; border: 1px solid black;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: calibri,sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"background-color: #f2f2f2; border-bottom: 1px solid black; border-left: none; border-right: 1px solid black; border-top: 1px solid black; vertical-align: top; width: 113px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: calibri,sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"color: black;\">2021\/2022<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"background-color: #f2f2f2; border-bottom: 1px solid black; border-left: none; border-right: 1px solid black; 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border-left: 1px solid black; border-right: 1px solid black; border-top: none; vertical-align: top; width: 377px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: calibri,sans-serif;\">Cash threshold reports<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"border-bottom: 1px solid black; border-left: none; border-right: 1px solid black; border-top: none; vertical-align: top; width: 113px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: calibri,sans-serif;\">\u02c34.5 million<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"border-bottom: 1px solid black; border-left: none; border-right: 1px solid black; border-top: none; vertical-align: top; width: 132px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: calibri,sans-serif;\">\u02c34.2 million<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-bottom: 1px solid black; border-left: 1px solid black; border-right: 1px solid black; border-top: none; vertical-align: top; width: 377px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: calibri,sans-serif;\">Suspicious and unusual transaction reports received<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"border-bottom: 1px solid black; 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