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FINTRAC’s administrative monetary penalties program – when you fail to comply

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FINTRAC offers regulated entities a framework for how it determines an administrative monetary penalty in cases of noncompliance.

The Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC) has issued a framework for the determination of an administrative monetary penalty in cases it adjudicates, summarizing the principles that are used by the agency to issue such a penalty.

The purpose of FINTRAC’s administrative monetary penalties program is to

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