Singapore legislation

Regulation 32

of Corporate Service Providers Regulations 2025

Regulation 32

Ongoing monitoring and enhanced ongoing monitoring

Subregulation 1

A registered corporate service provider (X) must conduct ongoing monitoring of every business relationship with a customer.

Subregulation 2

X must perform enhanced ongoing monitoring to detect or prevent money laundering, proliferation financing or terrorism financing —

(a)

in respect of all complex or unusually large transactions, or unusual patterns of transactions that have no apparent or visible economic or lawful purpose;

(b)

when X has established a business relationship with any person from or in a relevant country or territory;

(c)

in respect of any other categories of customers or any other transactions which X determines may present a high risk of money laundering, proliferation financing or terrorism financing;

(d)

in respect of a business relationship or transaction with a customer, where the customer is from or in a relevant country or territory;

(e)

in respect of a customer if X is not able to establish whether the customer has any —

(i)

ongoing, apparent or visible operation or business activity; or

(ii)

economic or business purpose for its corporate structure or arrangement; and

(f)

when X has established a business relationship with a politically‑exposed person.

Subregulation 3

X must not rely on a third party (as defined in regulation 24(4)) to conduct ongoing monitoring of a business relationship with a customer.