As mandated under the Financial Investigation Agency Act, the Agency is responsible for receiving, obtaining, investigating, analysing and disseminating information which relates or may relate to:
A financial offence or the proceeds of a financial offence; or
A request for legal assistance from an authority in a foreign jurisdiction which appears to the Agency to have the function of making such requests.
Under the Act, the Agency is also designated as the receiver of all disclosures of information which are required to be made pursuant to any financial services legislation relevant to its functions, including suspicious transactions reports and disclosures from foreign authorities.