{"id":67649,"date":"2020-07-07T14:54:55","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T09:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=67649"},"modified":"2020-07-07T14:54:56","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T09:54:56","slug":"cabinet-review-amendments-company-laws-comply-fatf-requirements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/cabinet-review-amendments-company-laws-comply-fatf-requirements.html","title":{"rendered":"Cabinet to review amendments in company laws to comply with FATF requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad: The cabinet is set to review the amendments in the country&#8217;s company and other laws in its upcoming meeting on Thursday in order to meet the requirements of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), according to a news report published today (July 7).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-compliant-major-fatf-conditions.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pakistan compliant with major FATF conditions<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The laws will primarily focus on increasing coordination with other states on anti-money laundering and anti-terror financing issues. The Asia-Pacific Group (APG) \u2013 an FATF body \u2013 had delineated the lacunas in Pakistani laws particularly in laws relating to the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) and others on the matter. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-gets-deadline-extension-fatf-compliance-report-submission.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pakistan compliant with major FATF conditions<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A summary of the amendments will be presented to the cabinet to fill the lacunas through changes in the Companies Act 2017 and Limited Liability Partnership Act 2017. The SECP prepared the required amendments and these have been given the green signal by the SECP Policy Board and the Ministries of Law and Finance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Furthermore, the SECP also had the amendments examined by international experts to ensure that they meet the required needs as per Pakistan\u2019s international commitments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The cabinet is set to review the amendments in the country&#8217;s company and other laws in its upcoming meeting on Thursday in order to meet the requirements of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), according to a news report published today (July 7). Read: Pakistan compliant with major FATF conditions The laws will primarily focus on increasing coordination with other states on anti-money laundering and anti-terror financing issues. The Asia-Pacific Group (APG) \u2013 an FATF body \u2013 had delineated the lacunas in Pakistani laws particularly in laws relating to the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) and others on the matter. \u00a0 Read: Pakistan compliant with major FATF conditions A summary of the amendments will be presented to the cabinet to fill the lacunas through changes in the Companies Act 2017 and Limited Liability Partnership Act 2017. The SECP prepared the required amendments and these have been given the green signal by the SECP Policy Board and the Ministries of Law and Finance. Furthermore, the SECP also had the amendments examined by international experts to ensure that they meet the required needs as per Pakistan\u2019s international commitments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":63188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15019],"tags":[33953,33954],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-67649","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-research-analysis","8":"tag-cabinet-to-review-amendments-in-company-laws-to-comply-with-fatf-requirements","9":"tag-fatf-requirements","10":"cat-15019-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cabinet to review amendments in company laws - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Islamabad: The cabinet is set to review the amendments in the country&#039;s company and other laws in its upcoming meeting on Thursday in order to meet the requirements of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), according to a news report published today (July 7).\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/cabinet-review-amendments-company-laws-comply-fatf-requirements.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cabinet to review amendments in company laws - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamabad: The cabinet is set to review the amendments in the country&#039;s company and other laws in its upcoming meeting on Thursday in order to meet the requirements of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), according to a news report published today (July 7).\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/cabinet-review-amendments-company-laws-comply-fatf-requirements.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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