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AML/CTF vs. GDPR: What Businesses And Individuals Need To Know

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Protecting the financial sector and preventing money laundering and the financing of terrorism are key priorities for both the European Union and the international community.

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Protecting the financial sector and preventing money laundering and the financing of terrorism are key priorities for both the European Union and the international community. Obliged entities are businesses and organizations involved in financial transactions and are subject to the obligations of the Anti-Money Laundering (AML) legislation. These include, among others, credit institutions, financial institutions, law firms, accounting firms, and real estate agencies. To achieve the objectives of the AML that obliged entities collect and process personal information about their clients and their financial activities.

However, collecting and processing such personal information can sometimes conflict with the right to privacy, as protected by Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (the General Data Protection Regulation, or "GDPR") and supplemented in Cyprus by the Law for the Protection of Natural Persons with regard to the Processing of Personal Data and the Free Movement of such

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