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

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