Impacts of the 5th AML Directive on the Provision of Investment Services in Czech Republic

Zuzana  Šiková

Impacts of the 5th AML Directive on the Provision of Investment Services in Czech Republic

Publication date: 31.03.2022

Financial Law Review, 2022, Issue 25 (1)/2022, pp. 68-92

https://doi.org/10.4467/22996834FLR.22.005.15655

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Impacts of the 5th AML Directive on the Provision of Investment Services in Czech Republic

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This contribution deals with the impact of the Vth AML directive, which updated Directive (EU) 2015/849 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 May 2015 on the prevention of the use of the financial system for the purposes of money laundering or terrorist financing, on the provision of the investment services in Czech Republic. The main aim of the contribution is to confirm or disprove the hypothesis that the Vth AML Directive significantly affected the activities of investment service providers. The author used scientific methods, especially induction and deduction, to confirm or disprove the above hypothesis. The paper also discusses the future regulation of the anti-money laundering area.

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investment services, investment service providers, anti-money laundering policy, money laundering, terrorist financing, AML Directives, implementation, impacts.

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Information: Financial Law Review, 2022, Issue 25 (1)/2022, pp. 68-92

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/22996834FLR.22.005.15655

Article type: Original scientific article

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Zuzana Šiková

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6808-0196

Department of Financial Law and Economics, Faculty of Law, Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic

Published at: 31.03.2022

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Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 Unported

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