TORONTO, Dec 20 (Reuters) - Canada's anti-money
laundering agency is looking to introduce a system that gives
financial institutions and other businesses real-time feedback
through scorecards, two sources said, as the regulator ramps up
initiatives to tackle financial crime.
The proposed reporting system follows stricter financial
crime penalties in Canada announced earlier this week after the
country's No. 2 bank TD was ordered to pay a record $3 billion
fine and pleaded guilty in a historic U.S. money laundering case
in October.
The regulator, Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis
Centre of Canada (FINTRAC), is looking at technology, including
AI, to deliver the scorecard and is expected to introduce it
next year, one source said.
FINTRAC aims to give more real-time feedback to reporting
entities to improve collaboration across the industry, another
source said.
Canada's federal government made new proposals in its fall
economic statement on Monday to give the regulator more powers,
including increasing financial penalties by as much as 40 times
and issuing compliance orders.
U.S. regulators' probe into TD Bank resulted in
calls for stronger regulations in Canada. In pleading guilty, TD
admitted former employees helped criminals launder millions of
dollars.
Canadian banks TD, Royal Bank of Canada ( RY ) and CIBC
have been fined by FINTRAC in the past two years for
failing to comply with money laundering and terrorist financing
rules.
Canada faces growing pressure to tackle financial crime
ahead of a review by the Financial Action Task Force, an
intergovernmental body made of up 40 international members.