Financial Crime Compliance for Market Infrastructure Providers
Infrastructure carries systemic importance rather than any customer relationships at all, which means that your own exposure arrives through the participants and through the obligation never to process what sanctions rules prohibit.
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Systemic Importance Without Any Customer Relationships
Financial market infrastructure includes all the payment, clearing, settlement, and messaging systems that entire markets depend upon functioning properly every day. These operators rarely hold any customer relationships at all, since participants are institutions rather than individuals, and the reporting entity obligations built around identifying customers therefore land somewhere other than the infrastructure itself in most cases.
Systemic position creates entirely different exposure. Infrastructure processes enormous volume on behalf of its participants, which makes sanctions compliance genuinely critical, because processing a prohibited transaction is a failure whatever your status under anti money laundering law happens to be. Participant admission standards matter for the same reason, since infrastructure inherits whatever weaknesses its participants bring into the system.
Compliance Support for Market Infrastructure
We deliver regulatory scope determinations, participant admission and oversight frameworks, sanctions screening across processed flow, systemic risk assessment, operational compliance controls, independent reviews where required, and ongoing compliance support for financial market infrastructure providers.
PSP Registration
End-to-end PSP registration support under Canada's Retail Payment Activities Act framework.
MSB Licensing
Complete MSB licensing and FINTRAC registration for money services businesses nationwide.
Banking
Deliver secure banking compliance solutions supporting regulatory excellence and operational efficiency.
AML Compliance
Build robust AML frameworks ensuring regulatory compliance and effective financial crime prevention.
Regulatory Consulting
Receive strategic regulatory advice supporting sustainable growth and complete compliance confidence.
Transaction Monitoring
Ongoing transaction monitoring and screening to detect and report suspicious activity.
Why Infrastructure Providers Choose Us
We focus on sanctions and on participant standards rather than on customer identification, because infrastructure processes what participants send and inherits whatever weaknesses those participants happen to bring with them.
Sanctions Genuinely Critical
We build screening across processed flow, since processing a prohibited transaction is a failure whatever your reporting entity status.
Participants Properly Admitted
We build admission standards, because infrastructure inherits whatever control weaknesses its participants bring into the system with them.
Scope Honestly Established
We establish which obligations genuinely reach infrastructure rather than importing customer requirements that simply do not apply here.
Systemic Risk Assessed
We assess exposure arising from your systemic position, which differs entirely from the risk a customer facing business carries.
Infrastructure Providers We Support
We support financial market infrastructure operators anywhere in Canada today, alongside foreign infrastructure that serves any Canadian participants or that processes any activity connected to the Canadian markets from abroad.
What Our Clients Say
Canadian financial firms trust ABM Global Compliance to navigate complex regulation with clarity and care. From MSB licensing to ongoing AML support, our clients value our responsiveness, expertise, and genuine commitment to their long-term compliance success.
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Market Infrastructure Questions
Clear and direct answers to the questions infrastructure providers ask most about which financial crime obligations genuinely reach systemic operators.
Are we a reporting entity?
Frequently not, since infrastructure rarely holds customer relationships, though we establish your position specifically rather than assuming either answer.
Why are sanctions so critical?
Because processing a prohibited transaction is a failure regardless of status, and infrastructure processes enormous volume on behalf of participants.
What about our participant standards?
They matter considerably, since infrastructure inherits whatever control weaknesses participants bring, making admission and ongoing oversight genuinely worthwhile.
Does systemic importance change things?
It changes the nature of your exposure, which arises from position and volume rather than from any individual customer relationship.
Who actually supervises infrastructure here?
That depends on the type of infrastructure operated, and we map the applicable oversight alongside any financial crime obligations arising.