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Setting Up
Fiduciary Accounts with Global Finnet
The Role of Global
Finnet
The name Global Fin Net was originally derived from
Global
Financial
Networks.
Our role is to assist other financial institutions and banks to open
and operate accounts for their clients, acting in a purely fiduciary
capacity. It is expected that our New Zealand facility will provide
operating accounts in US dollars, Euro and other major currencies.
Sensible anti-money laundering procedures will be applied in a
client sensitive background.
Additional precautions are required
when transferring money between countries in order to guard against
a myriad of potential problems. All payments out of accounts will be
countersigned by our own authorized signatories in New Zealand after
they are sent to us by our participating Financial Institutions. We
will make certain checks before signing in order to protect the
facility for the benefit of all users. Thus, there is one authorized
signatory from the Financial Institution and one from us.
Major Banks are becoming increasingly
cautious about who they do business with and the origin of money. In
order to operate accounts in New Zealand we are obliged to maintain
a proper office staffed by at least one person located in the same
city as the Bank where the account is operated. We
also must have a person who is well known to the bank to be
responsible for operation of the account. Certain records need to be
available for inspection by Authorities.
Our service is expected to be found
useful to the following: small private banks, clearing
accounts, general global financial institutions that have concern
for the safe custody of money and its movement from time to time.
7. Send a good copy of your
passport as proof of your identity and one utility bill as proof of
your residence to. This satisfies banking requirements and ensures
that your money always remains yours.
Operations
1. Anti money laundering
regulations give the bank an absolute right to reject any inward
remittance no matter how small.
2. You will be given an
account name (yours) so that your clients can send money to your
account. You will need to add a message so that you can identify
whose account to credit in your own books. For example, you may wish
to use your clients’ account number with a prefix.
3. We will arrange for you to
receive a bank security “netguard” with your own user name,
password, PIN in order to obtain internet access to view your
account. The setting up of this facility is time sensitive. This is
arranged once your account has the minimum opening balance in it.
The central office of the bank will send your netguard to us, we
will send it onwards to you by courier and you must activate the
devise within 10 days of the original dispatch by the bank. If you
are late, or the courier has difficulty delivering to you, then we
will have to reset the user name / password for you to log on
initially.
4. Be aware that
international transactions do not complete the same day. You need to
allow several days, depending upon the banks and countries involved,
for transactions to be completed. You also need to know that in
addition to your banks charges for a service there are also
generally correspondent bank charges and the receiving bank also
charges about $8.00.
Do you have suitable
software to handle your banking business? Look at
Bank
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