The document is a flowchart created by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) to indicate which regulator a business will need to contact under the 2007 Money Laundering Regulations. It provides a series of yes or no questions to determine if a business is subject to regulation by the FSA, a designated professional body, HM Revenue and Customs, the Gambling Commission, or the Office of Fair Trading.

1. Who is my supervisor under the 2007 You may not be subject
Start Money Laundering Regulations? to the Regulations.
Call the FSA’s
Are you a member of a designated
Do you conduct mainstream You will be Perimeter Enquiries
Professional Body under the Money
FSA-regulated activities? supervised Team on 020 7066 0082
Laundering Regulations? Yes No
by your if you remain unsure
No Yes Professional
Body
Are you a firm that is Authorised by Financial No
the Financial Services Authority? Services
Yes Do you accept more than €15,000 (or
Authority HM Revenue
No equivalent) in cash for goods?
& Customs Yes
Are you a casino? Gambling No
Yes
Commission Office of Fair
No Yes Are you an estate agent?
Trading
Are you a Money Service Business? HM Revenue No
Yes
& Customs
No Do you offer accountancy services,
HM Revenue audit services or tax advice?
& Customs Yes
Are you a Trust or Company Service HM Revenue
Provider? Yes & Customs No
No Do you carry out any of the following activities?
Do you issue and administer means of Financial • Lending
payment? Services • Safe custody services
Yes Yes
Authority • Financial leasing
No • Offering guarantees and commitments
• Participation in securities issues
Office of Fair Should you hold a Category A • Advising on capital structures
Trading Consumer Credit Licence? • Money broking
Yes No • Portfolio management and advice
• Safekeeping and administration of securities
This chart has been prepared by the Financial Services Authority to indicate which • Trading for own account
regulator a business will need to approach. It is a reflection of our understanding at
September 2007: it maybe refined in future. For the latest version of this chart, Please see “The FSA’s new role under the Money
definitions of some of the terms, and contact details for other regulators, please go to: Laundering Regulations 2007: our approach” for definitions
http://www.fsa.gov.uk/Pages/About/What/financial_crime/money_laundering/3mld/inde of these activities. This can be found on our web pages.
x.shtml or you can call the FSA’s Perimeter Enquiries Team on 020 7066 0082.