Firms that are considered financial institutions (FIs), designated non-financial businesses and professions (DFNBPs) or non-profit organisations (NPOs) according to Qatar Law No. 20/2019 On the Issuing of the Anti-money Laundering law and Qatar Cabinet Decision No. 41/2019 On the Issuance of Implementing Regulation of the Law on Combating Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Issued by Qatar Law No. 20/2019, follow the sanctions compliance process prescribed by the public prosecutor in Qatar Decision No. 1/2020 Regulating the Implementation Mechanisms of the Targeted Financial Sanctions related to Combatting the Financing of Terrorism and the Financing of the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction pursuant to UN Security Council Resolutions.

• AML: Anti-money laundering.

• CFT: Countering the financing of terrorism.

• Business relationship: A regular relationship between a customer and a firm in connection with a service that the customer receives from the firm. A relationship that, when contact is established, is reasonably expected by a firm to be merely transitory and does not constitute a business relationship.