What Happens to Your STR? Working with Investigators and Prosecutors when Filing Suspicious Transaction Reports

November 20, 2024 4:00pm

Gary Valiquette
Assistant Crown Attorney, Guns and Gangs Task Force
Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General

Asad Rauf
Senior Vice President
SBI Canada Bank

Discover what happens when a bank files a Suspicious Transaction Report. Where does it go? Who sees it? What happens next and where are the gaps? Topics of discussion will include:

  • Calculating reporting trends, including how many reports are filed, whether the report was warranted, and whether it was well-constructed
  • Determining what is reasonable grounds and what does it look like in a financial crime context
  • Examining the structure of an STR and how to comply the data requirements
  • Exploring when there are, or are not actional results from an STR, regulator or criminal
  • Debating the possibility of joint reporting by different financial institutions
  • Disclosure expectations to other financial institutions
  • Comparing reporting statistics and practices with international regimes