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  • Anti-Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Security

    • Article (23) Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism and Illicit Organisations

      1. Open Finance Providers must have comprehensive and effective internal Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism policies, procedures and controls in place to ensure compliance with the AML Laws and Regulations, as amended from time to time.
      2. Open Finance Providers must have robust fraud control policies and systems in place, which should address identification and access controls requirements, to comply with the requirements of this Regulation.

    • Article (24) Technology Risk and Information Security

      1. Open Finance Providers must establish an appropriate information technology (IT) governance framework. IT governance must cover various aspects, including a clear structure of IT functions and the establishment of IT control and risk management policies, and at a minimum, must include an effective IT function, a robust technology risk management function, and an independent technology audit function.
      2. The Board, or a committee designated by the Board, shall be responsible for ensuring that a sound and robust risk management framework is established and maintained to manage technology risks in a manner that is proportionate to all risks that the Open Finance Provider is exposed to.
      3. Open Finance Providers must adhere to the security and other standards set by the operator to ensure that the software used by the Open Finance Provider is not compromised at any stage in its development process.
      4. Open Finance Providers must adopt and implement industry standards and best practices in relation to security risk management as directed by the Central Bank from time to time.
      5. Open Finance Providers must identify, manage and adequately address all cybersecurity risks through the implementation of a technology risk management framework. Open Finance Providers must commit adequate skilled resources to ensure its capability to identify the risk and protect its critical infrastructure and services against any attack and contain the impact of cybersecurity incidents and restore its services.
      6. Open Finance Providers must establish a cybersecurity incident response and management plan to swiftly isolate and neutralise a cybersecurity threat and to resume affected services as soon as possible. The plan must, inter alia, describe the procedures to respond to plausible cyber threat scenarios.