What the registry files and what the Central Bank's AML directive expects supervised institutions to obtain for a company customer.
Registry documents and the Central Bank of Cyprus's customer-due-diligence expectations for legal persons.
Company incorporation with the registry requires a founding and a constitutional document, which must be signed and in Greek; a private limited-by-shares company may adopt the standard model regulations by naming them in a document.
Online company registration through the registry requires a statutory declaration signed and sworn by the entrusted lawyer before the court, and the applicant must first be registered on the registry's e-filing system.
The Central Bank's AML directive lists documents supervised institutions should consider to verify a company: certificates of incorporation, registered office, directors and secretary, and registered shareholders, the memorandum and articles, and a board resolution certified by the secretary authorising account opening.
The directive also expects supervised institutions to obtain a legal-person customer's recent audited financial statements or, where none exist for the last two years, recent management accounts.
For company customers the directive requires supervised institutions to fully ascertain the ownership and control structure and identify the beneficial owners and the natural persons who effectively control the company.
The directive lists the data to collect when verifying a company, including registration number, registered office and head-office addresses, board members, persons authorised to operate the account, and beneficial owners of unlisted companies.
Before the relationship starts, supervised institutions must collect an economic and risk profile covering the purpose, expected volumes, nature of transactions, expected origin and destination of payments, business description and ownership structure.
Where registered shareholders are nominees, the directive expects a copy of the contract between nominee and beneficial owner, and a meeting with the nominee does not satisfy the requirement to meet the beneficial owner or controller.
Submitting the application to establish a company — Department of Registrar of Companies and Intellectual Property
Applying to incorporate a Company — Department of Registrar of Companies and Intellectual Property
Before the incorporation of a company — Department of Registrar of Companies and Intellectual Property
CBC Directive on the prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing 2025 (unofficial translation) — Central Bank of Cyprus
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The Central Bank's AML directive lists documents supervised institutions should consider to verify a company: certificates of incorporation, registered office, directors and secretary, and registered shareholders, the memorandum and articles, and a board resolution certified by the secretary authorising account opening.
Before the relationship starts, supervised institutions must collect an economic and risk profile covering the purpose, expected volumes, nature of transactions, expected origin and destination of payments, business description and ownership structure.
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