On November 8, 2023, the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) issued a warning order to Leonteq Securities (Europe) GmbH based on Section 51, Paragraph 2, Sentence 1 of the Money Laundering Act (GwG) to address deficiencies in the prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing.

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The annual regulatory review revealed these deficiencies, and the company is now legally mandated to rectify them. The identified issues include:

• Insufficient due diligence requirements.
• Inadequate documentation or storage of KYC information.
• Failure to disclose planned internal security measures for offshore implementation.
• Missing evidence related to signed contracts and the control framework.