In accordance with Article 8 EU Directive 2015/849 on the Prevention of the Use of the Financial System for the Purposes of Money Laundering or Terrorist Financing, obliged entities shall take appropriate steps to identify and assess the risks of money laundering and terrorist financing, taking into account risk factors including those relating to their customers, countries or geographic areas, products, services, transactions or delivery channels.

EMPS recognize high risk and offshore jurisdictions as countries that have deficiencies in its national AML/CFT regime or have inappropriate and ineffective measures for the prevention of ML/FT. Cooperation with them or processing payments from/to these countries is not accepted.