Money-laundering supervision rules change.

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UK CIMA members involved in consumer credit lending or estate agency must now.... be supervised by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT), rather than by CIMA or another authority. Under rules introduced in July as part of the Money Laundering Regulations 2007, any business doing such work that's not authorised by the Financial Services Authority or supervised by HM Revenue & Customs as a money services business must complete an OFT form and pay a fee.

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The registration deadline is January 31, 2010. From that date it will be an offence for a business in this category to trade without being...

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