The Act describes those who need to comply as 'reporting entities'.
To work out if your business is a reporting entity, refer to section 5 of the Act and check our FAQs.
Other reporting entities are found in the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing (definitions) Regulations 2011.
The reporting entities supervised by the FMA are listed in section 130 of the Act. They include:
The Reserve Bank supervises banks, life insurers and non-bank deposit takers.
The Department of Internal Affairs covers casinos, non-deposit-taking lenders, money changers and reporting entities not covered by the other supervisors.