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Romania

Retail banking / Individual customer / Onboarding

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9
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26
As-of date
2026-10-12

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Public Romania AML/CFT research preview for retail banking, payments/e-money and crypto, with selected corporate, private-banking and wealth scenarios. National requirements remain under Romanian-language source and applicability review. Directly applicable EU transfer rules are separated from Romanian measures and future EU AML rules. This is not a complete legal handbook, compliance approval or operational workflow test.

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Classify the Romanian legal entity, actual activity and supervisory category before selecting AML controls.

legislationPortal Legislativ / Parliament of RomaniaLaw 129/2019 Article 5(1)(a)-(b), Articles 27(1) and 28(1); OUG 53/2022 Article I item 1 inserting Article 30^2(1)-(2); Order 181/2026 Article I(1)-(2) and replacement Annex. The Law 129 text is the consolidation whose displayed history ends 19 December 2025; later perimeter changes remain under review.
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Build the control model from the entity's legal scope and documented money-laundering and terrorist-financing risks, not a national risk score copied to each customer.

legislationPortal Legislativ / Parliament of RomaniaLaw 129/2019 Articles 1(5)(b), 1(8) and 24(1)-(2) in the consolidation whose history ends 19 December 2025; sector-specific additions and later amendments require revalidation.
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Map the applicable customer-due-diligence trigger, identify the customer and understand the purpose and intended nature of the relationship.

legislationPortal Legislativ / Parliament of RomaniaLaw 129/2019 Article 11(1)(a), (c) and (8), and Article 13(1), in the consolidation whose history ends 19 December 2025; the exact current 2026 text and product-specific limbs remain under review.
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Record how customer and representative identity was checked, which source was used and why it was suitable for the case.

legislationPortal Legislativ / Parliament of RomaniaLaw 129/2019 Article 11(1)(a), (4) and (8), in the consolidation whose history ends 19 December 2025; current accepted methods and sector exceptions require revalidation.
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Determine whether a customer or beneficial owner falls within the applicable politically exposed person rules and document the resulting measures and approval route.

legislationPortal Legislativ / Parliament of RomaniaLaw 129/2019 Article 3(1)-(5), Article 11(3), and Article 17(1)(c), (9)-(10) in the consolidation whose history ends 19 December 2025; later amendments and the full current branch remain under review.

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