Electronic Reporting to FINTRAC: Minimum technical capability

As a reporting entity, you have to submit all reports on suspicious transactions, large cash transactions and electronic funds transfers to FINTRAC electronically if you have the technical capabilities to do so. The minimum technical capabilities are as follows:

• A personal computer with the following characteristics:

  - 32 MB memory

  - 640 x 480 VGA video display (800 x 600 or higher is preferable)

  - any operating system running a Web browser, such as Internet Explorer (version 5.x or greater) or its equivalent; and

• An Internet connection

Exception for employees and suspicious transaction reports
If you are an employee of a reporting entity, you are a “reporting entity” yourself, for the purposes of suspicious transactions only. This requires you to make a report to FINTRAC about a suspicious transaction unless you reported it to your superior. In this situation, if you need to make a report about a suspicious transaction that you did not report to your superior, you are considered not to have the technical capabilities to report electronically. This means you must submit this type of report by paper.

This exception does not apply if you are submitting a suspicious transaction report on behalf of your employer or anyone else that is a reporting entity.

Exception for terrorist property reports
Unlike your other reports to FINTRAC, a terrorist property report is only submitted on paper. You cannot send this report electronically.