The Compliance Department is an independent department whose main responsibility is to assist the Board of Directors and Executive Management in complying with the laws and instructions of regulatory authorities. It plays the role of monitoring all the bank’s departments and branches to determine the extent of their compliance with the laws, legislation and standards regulating banking work, especially the instructions of the Central Bank of Iraq and the requirements for combating money laundering and the financing of terrorism. In addition to implementing the requirements of the US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA).
Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA):
The US Department of the Treasury passed the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) in 2010. It requires all foreign financial institutions to report the financial accounts of US citizens.
Al-Mashreq Al-Arabi Islamic Bank for Investment is committed to verifying and identifying any customer who is classified as an American according to the American identity indicators for customers, and in accordance with the FATICA law, the bank is obligated to disclose the Customers subject to this law submit their information to the US Tax Service (IRS) and disclose it to the Central Bank of Iraq and the competent regulatory authorities based on proven information provided by the customer in the account opening form or when the data is updated periodically.
Conditions that must be met for a customer to be considered subject to FATCA:
First: individuals
1- The customer must be an American citizen.
2- Resident in the United States of America (green card holder)
3- The place of birth must be in one of the cities in the United States of America, even if he does not hold an American passport or green card.
4- Residence address or postal address in the United States of America
5- Fixed payment orders to transfer funds to accounts in the United States of America
6- If the only address in the account file is ((for a party / through or storing correspondence))
7- If the agent’s address is in an agency that maintains an account or address, and he is the person authorized to sign the account in the United States of America.
Second: Companies.
1- The place of its registration or organization must be in the United States of America.
2- The company’s main address is in one of the cities in the United States of America.