The Communiqué of the Ministry of Treasury and Finance on Amending the General Communiqué of the Financial Crimes Investigation Board entered into force by being published in today’s issue of the Official Gazette.
While remote identification methods can be used to verify customer identity only in the establishment of permanent business relations with real persons, technological developments in the financial sector necessitated establishing a remote customer relationship for real persons as well as legal entities registered in the trade registry.
With the Communiqué, the procedures and principles regarding remote identification methods were determined for legal entities registered in the trade registry, while artificial intelligence applications were enabled to be used in remote identification.
Considering that remote identification is a technology-intensive application, in order to provide the necessary security conditions in outsourcing services, the certification requirement for the information security management system and the reporting requirement on some technical issues in case artificial intelligence applications are used in remote identification were introduced.
