8 Ensuring proper record keeping
Licensees are required to keep records of certain transactions, accounts and client identity.
These records must be kept in such a way that they can be provided to FINTRAC within 30 days of a request:
- Reports
- Suspicious transaction reports
- Terrorist property report
- Large cash transaction reports
- Large virtual currency transaction reports
- Large cash transaction records
- Large virtual currency transaction records
- Receipt of funds records
- Information records
- Documents concerning unrepresented parties
- Records of reasonable measures
A FINTRAC guideline "Record keeping requirements for real estate brokers" specifies the types of records that must be kept.1
1 Government of Canada, Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada, https://www.fintrac-canafe.gc.ca/guidance-directives/recordkeeping-document/record/real-eng, visited on August 19, 2021.
- Reference number
- 208779
- Last update
- December 14, 2021