The Government established OPBAS as part of its reforms to strengthen the UK's anti-money laundering (AML) supervisory regime. OPBAS supervises the 25 professional body supervisors (PBSs) in the legal and accountancy sectors.
OPBAS is housed within the FCA and our key objectives are to reduce the harm of money laundering and terrorist financing by:
The OPBAS Regulations 2017 give us powers to ensure that PBSs meet the standards required by the Money Laundering Regulations 2017 (MLRs).
Our sourcebook provides guidance for PBSs on how they can meet their obligations.
We've analysed our progress so far in our 2019, 2020, 2020/21 and 2022/23 reports.
If you have any questions, please email OPBAS.info@fca.org.uk.
If you get an email, letter or phone call from someone claiming to work for us, it’s important you consider the possibility that it could be scam. OPBAS would never ask you to transfer money to us. We would also never ask for sensitive banking information, such as bank account PINs and passwords. Find out more about fake OPBAS/FCA emails.
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