Kenya · AML / CFT / CPF

POCAMLA duties, mapped to the forms that discharge them.

What Kenya's anti-money laundering regime asks of reporting institutions — FRC registration through goAML, 90-day change notifications and more — published with verified citations to POCAMLA and its 2023 Regulations.

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RegulatorFinancial Reporting Centre (FRC)

Primary instrumentPOCAMLA, 2009 + 2023 Regulations

Consolidated as at2025-11-04

Published facts14 rows · 16/16 verified quotes

Where this comes from

Published pack rows, not scraped summaries.

Kenya's AML/CFT/CPF regime runs on the Proceeds of Crime and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2009 and its 2023 Regulations, supervised by the Financial Reporting Centre. Banks, payment providers, casinos, real-estate agents and other reporting institutions all sit inside it. The pack publishes both instruments' duties with the 12 FRC forms — 169 fields — that discharge them.

The KE-FINANCIAL-CRIME-AML-CFT-CPF pack currently publishes 13 published reporting-institution obligations, 12 forms, 169 mapped form fields. Every published row carries a verified quote span from the consolidated instrument, an explicit review decision, and version history. Published rows are a reviewed subset of the compiled regulatory corpus — depth keeps growing under the same publication policy.

This page is maintained by the Esheria Legal Team. Facts shown here come from published pack rows with verified quote spans, and none of it is legal advice.

Key obligations

Where FRC supervision starts.

Register with the Financial Reporting Centre.

Reporting institutions must register with the FRC — done in practice through the goAML portal using form FRC-RF-1-1. (Section 47A(1), POCAMLA, Proceeds of Crime and Anti-Money Laundering Act, 2009 (POCAMLA).)

Notify the FRC of changes within 90 days.

Reporting institutions must notify the FRC in writing of changes to registered particulars — including ownership, senior management, beneficial owners and the MLRO — within ninety days of the change. (Regulation 5(3), POCAMLA Regulations 2023, Proceeds of Crime and Anti-Money Laundering Act, 2009 (POCAMLA).)

Registration & notices

The FRC's two foundational clocks.

FRC registration Via goAML portal, form FRC-RF-1-1 Reporting institution Sec 47A(1), POCAMLA

Change of registered particulars Within 90 days of the change Reporting institution Reg 5(3), POCAMLA Regulations 2023

Sources & related

Check the source, then go deeper.

Proceeds of Crime and Anti-Money Laundering Act, 2009 (POCAMLA)

Consolidated text as at 2025-11-04 — the exact source the published pack rows cite. Opens the official PDF.

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POCAMLA Regulations, 2023 (L.N. 153 of 2023)

Consolidated text as at 2023-11-17 — the exact source the published pack rows cite. Opens the official PDF.

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