Subjects obliged of the Law of Prevention of Money Laundering:

  • The financial credit entities.
  • Insurance entities authorized to operate in the life insurance industry and brokers when they act in relation to life insurance or other services related to the investment.
  • The investment services companies.
  • The management companies of collective investment institutions and the collective investment companies whose management is not entrusted to a management company.
  • The entities managing pension funds.
  • The management companies of venture capital entities and venture capital companies whose management is not entrusted to a management company.
  • The reciprocal guarantee societies.
  • Payment entities and electronic money entities.
  • People who exercise a currency exchange activity professionally.
  • The postal services regarding the activity of money transfer or transfer.
  • Persons professionally engaged in intermediation in the granting of loans or credits, as well as persons who, without having obtained authorization as financial institutions of credits, develop some of the activities of the first additional provision of Law 3/1994 of April 14 (Adaptation to the Second Banking Coordination Directive).
  • The gambling casinos.
  • Real estate developers and those who exercise professional agency, commission or intermediation activities in the purchase and sale of real estate.
  • Account auditors, external accountants or tax advisors.
  • Notaries and registrars of property, mercantile and real estate.
  • Lawyers, solicitors and other independent professionals will be subject when they participate in the conception, realization or advising of transactions on behalf of clients related to the purchase-sale of real estate or commercial entities, the management of funds, securities or other assets, the opening o management of current, savings or securities accounts, the organization of the necessary contributions for the creation, operation or management of companies, or acting on behalf of clients, in any financial or real estate transaction.
  • Persons with a professional character provide services to the following third parties: Incorporate companies, exercise secretarial or management functions, provide corporate addresses, exercise a trust or similar legal instrument, and act as shareholder on behalf of another.
  • People related to: The professional trade of jewels, precious stones and metals, the professional trade of objects of art and antiquities, the professional trade of philatelic and numismatic investment, trees, natural forests, animals and other goods susceptible to be hired with offer of price restitution.
  • People related to: Activities of deposit, custody or professional transportation of funds or means of payment, the management, exploitation and marketing of lotteries or other games of chance with respect to payment operations of prizes, physical persons who perform media movements of payment, the professional trade of goods with respect to the transactions in which the collections or payments are made in means of payment (cash, bank checks to the bearer or another form of physical payment to the bearer) for an amount higher than 15,000 euros.
  • The foundations and associations.
  • The managers of payment systems and clearing and settlement of securities and derivative financial products, as well as the credit or debit card managers issued by other entities.