AML & KYC POLICY
Marketfinancials Limited (hereafter the “Company” or ‘invest100.com’ or “we” or “our” or “us”) is is a Securities Dealer Licensee regulated and authorized by the Financial Services Authority Seychelles (the “FSA”) under license number SD006.
The Company is operating under the Securities Act and the Securities Regulations of the FSA as amended from time to time.
Introduction
Money laundering is the process of converting funds, received from illegal activities (such as fraud, corruption, terrorism, etc.), into other funds or investments that look legitimate to hide or distort the real source of funds. On the other hand, terrorist financing is the process by which terrorists’ acts are funded. Terrorists need financial support to carry out their activities and to achieve their goals. There is little difference between terrorists and other criminals in their abuse of the financial system. While different from money laundering, terrorists use smaller amounts of money which sometimes are not even illicit.
The process of money laundering involves three sequential steps:
Objective
Marketfinancials Limited is committed to actively and effectively prevent the risks Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing and requires the management, and employees to follow the named standards.
Responsibilities
Marketfinancials Limited, adheres to the principles of AML and TF actively prevents any actions that aim or facilitate the process of legalizing illicit funds, as it is a major responsibility of all financial institutions and relevant organizations around the globe.
We are committed on the detection and prevention of any suspicious activities through our services and as such comply with the regulatory requirements including but not limited to: identifying our clients, maintain transaction records, monitoring of our clients activities involving funds, screen clients against sanctions databases, train our staff to recognize suspicious transactions etc.
The Company has the obligation to report suspicious activities of clients relevant to money laundering or terrorist financing to the Financial Intelligence Unit of Seychelles, UBIQUE.
Rights
Marketfinancials Limited, collects clients’ information and validates proof of identification document of its clients, before the account opening and any payments / refunds. We have the right to record and store such information and make it available to competent authorities if, and as required.
Clients shall assume that all information provided to us is available to the competent authorities, in Seychelles, to the country of origin of any funds transmitted to us or refunded by us.
We neither accept nor pays cash under any circumstances. Marketfinancials Limited reserves the right to refuse to process a transfer of funds, if it believes that it is connected in any way with to criminal activities, terrorist financing or money laundering in the opinion of our staff.
KYC Procedure
Know-Your-Client procedure is an important tool for the prevention of ML/TF, identity theft, credit card theft, etc. We are taking every possible step to identify and prevent fraud.
Upon the registration to open a trading account you are required to provide the below:
A. Physical person / individual client
B. Legal entity / Corporate client
* If the relevant registrar of companies in the country of incorporation does not issue any of the above certificates, then an incumbency certificate shall be provided signed by the secretary of the company, which will confirm the missing information.
All of the above documents must not be older than 6 months and original or true copies of the original certified by a lawyer or notary.
The Company reserves the right to impose additional due diligence requirements to accept Clients residing in certain countries.Also, it shall apply heightened scrutiny to clients, who are residents of other countries, identified as having inadequate AML standards or that may represent a high risk for crime and corruption.
The above procedure is performed to verify the identity of the client and to assist us to understand you and your investment requirements to be able to provide you the best possible services based on your profile.
Deposit & withdrawal requirements
All the clients’ operations to deposit funds have the following requirements:
In case of bank transfer, we need to see the confirmation. The name indicated during the registration must match the name of the owner of the account.
If funding with credit or debit card, you should send us a copy of your card (both sides). The name, date of expiry, the last four digits of the card number on the front and signature on the back shall be clearly visible. For your security, we advise to cover the card number except the last 6 digits and the CVV code on the back.
We always return deposited funds to the clients by the same way from which they originated and always on the name of the client,except if:
Declaration
The Company may review and/ or amend the present policy and its sole discretion, whenever it deems necessary.
Contact Details
Should you have any questions about our Anti-money Laundering and KYC Policy please contact our Support team at [email protected]
Latest update: June 25th, 2020