Pending Comment Letters

Your comments are extremely important to us to provide the best response by WOCCU to these regulatory proposals.

Listed below are all pending regulatory actions for which WOCCU intends to submit a Comment Letter. The listed date is the date by which Comments are due to the respective agency. All Comment Letters filed by WOCCU can be viewed on the Comments & Position Papers tab. Comments filed by the European Network of Credit Unions can be found here.

Please be sure to provide us with your comments in advance of the Due Date so that we may include them in our Comment Letter.

Agency	Pending Comment Letters	Due Date
IFRS	Amendments to the Classification and and Measurements of Financial Instruments	July 19, 2023
IFRS	Methodology for Enhancing the International Applicability of the SASB Standards and SASB Standards Taxonomy Updates	August 9, 2023

Recent News on our Competent Authorities

2023-04-11

FATF Finalizes Guidance On Beneficial Ownership of Legal Persons

The Financial Action Task Force finalized its guidance to provide tougher global beneficial ownership standards in its Recommendation 24 by requiring countries to ensure that competent authorities have access to adequate, accurate and up-to-date information on the true owners of companies. This guidance will help implement the revised Recommendation 24. If implemented properly by national-level authorities, it will provide efficient and rapid access to the information for use by financial institutions including credit unions to help with their AML/CFT responsibilities with respect to legal entities.

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FATF

FATF Finalizes Guidance On Beneficial Ownership of Legal Persons

2022-03-16

WOCCU Applauds FATF Strengthening of Beneficial Ownership Standards

The Financial Action Task Force made amendments to FATF Recommendation 24 and its Interpretive Note to strengthen the international standards on beneficial ownership of legal persons to ensure greater transparency about the ultimate ownership and control of legal persons. This not only will mitigate the risks of their misuse, but will require Countries to have a public authority or body function as a beneficial ownership registry (or alternative mechanism) that can provide efficient access to adequate, accurate and up-to-date beneficial ownership information by competent authorities.

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WOCCU Applauds FATF Strengthening of Beneficial Ownership Standards

2022-01-21

International Advocacy at World Council Releases 2022 Global Regulatory Update

This week the International Advocacy team at the World Council of Credit Unions (World Council) released the 2022 Global Regulatory Update. The update highlighted the leading regulatory issues currently affecting credit unions including sustainable finance, proportionality, financial inclusion, anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT), payments and digitization. With sustainable finance as the feature of the report, it was noted that we should look forward to regulations that will encourage investments in environmentally responsible products as well as related regulations that govern procedure, including disclosures and reporting requirements.

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FATF, G20

International Advocacy at World Council Releases 2022 Global Regulatory Update

2021-11-01

FATF Acknowledges Burden of AML/CFT Requirements on the Advancement of Financial Inclusion

The Financial Action Task Force released their, “Cross-Border Payments Survey Results on Implementation of the FATF Standards”, in response to survey created to identify conflicts between AML/CFT rules and implementation, and cross-border payments. According to FATF, “The survey results highlight, among others, that lack of risk-based approach and inconsistent implementation of the AML/CFT requirements increases cost, reduces speed, limits access and reduces transparency.”

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FATF Acknowledges Burden of AML/CFT Requirements on the Advancement of Financial Inclusion

2021-10-27

FATF Identifies Lack of Proportionality as Barrier to Financial Inclusion

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) published its High-Level Synopsis of the Stocktake of the Unintended Consequences of the FATF Standards. WOCCU commented on this consultation urging focus on the link between proportionality and financial inclusion and further commenting on the issue of De-Risking as they relate to national-level implementation of AML/CFT requirements which are often costly and burdensome for smaller community-based financial institutions such as credit unions.

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FATF

FATF Identifies Lack of Proportionality as Barrier to Financial Inclusion

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