AMLA
Cross Border and Marketing Materials
FX Manual
Conflict of Interest
General Knowledge
100

Turn around time for covered Transaction Reporting (CTR)

What is 5 working days?

100

This tool covers advice on local licensing requirements, prohibitions and condition (if any) applicable to financial services.  It provides an answer to the following question: In order to market and/or make available a product or service to a client located in another jurisdiction (the target jurisdiction), does an offshore HSBC entity require a banking or other license in the target jurisdiction? “

What is Cross Border Tool?

100

The is the form that needs to be fulfilled when purchasing foreign currencies.

What is the Application to Purchase (ATP)?

100

Tool used to log your Outside Activities 

What is Employee Conduct Activities (ECA) Tool

100

Name of the two departments that merged to form a One Compliance Function

What are Regulatory Compliance and Financial Crime Compliance?

200

These are the 3 stages of Money Laundering.

What are placement, layering, and integration?

200

It is the notice period for changes in the Terms and Conditions

What is 60 days?

200

Time a person should be residing in the Philippines to be considered as a resident.

What is 1 year or longer?

200

Minimum frequency of attention on your Personal Account Dealings (PAD)

What is annually?

200

Name a regulator of HSBC.

What is Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) / Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA)?

300

This is the local regulatory body created in pursuant to RA 9160 or the Anti Money Laundering Act of 2001 to protect the integrity of bank accounts and to ensure that the Philippines will not be used as money laundering site for the proceeds of any unlawful activity.

What is the Anti Money Laundering Council?

300

Fly in and fly out are two types of Cross Border Marketing and Sales activities.  This is the third type.

What is a Reach In?

300

An individual citizen of the Philippines residing therein.

What is a Resident?

300

Give an example of types of Conflicts per Conflict of Interest policy.

What are Worker vs. Worker, HSBC vs. HSBC, HSBC vs. client, client vs. client?

300

Current Head of Compliance Philippines

Who is Shane Godwin?

400

The most recent predicate crime added to the AML Act

What is tax evasion?

400

This is the local regulation to be considered when reviewing marketing materials.

What is Consumer Protection Act?

400

It is the compilation of regulation on Foreign Exchange.

What is Manual of Regulations on Foreign Exchnage Transactions (MORFXT)

400

Type of assciation that is out of scope of the Outside Activity policy.

What are PTA, home owners, rotary club, hobbies, public activities?

400

This team performs investigations on alerts from our TM systems and those referred manually via Unusual Activity Reports (UAR).

What is External Investigative Reporting (EIR) Team?

500

The board members of the Anti Money Laundering Committee (AMLC)

Who are the Governor of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), Commissioner of the Insurance Commission (IC), and the Chairman of the Secuirties and Excahnge Commission (SEC)

500

What law or regulation is being addressed when a local HBAP MNL employee chaperones a foreign HSBC colleague in client meetings onshore.

What is Doing Business in the Philippines without a license?

500

Type of document that evidences foreign investments or foreign loans in the Philippines.

What is BSP Registered Document (BSRD)?

500

Investments that are allowed and no longer requires to be registered in GPAD.

What are UITFs, Mutual funds, VUL?

500

Philippines Country Sanction Officer

Who is Ogie Mercado?