The EBA announced new guidance in the press release The EBA issues ‘travel rule’ guidance to tackle money laundering and terrorist financing in transfers of funds and crypto assets:
The Guidelines specify which information should accompany a transfer of funds or crypto assets and also list the steps that payment service providers (PSPs), intermediary PSPs (IPSPs), crypto-asset service providers (CASPs) and intermediary CASPs (ICASPs) should take to detect missing or incomplete information, and what they should do if a transfer of funds or a transfer of crypto-assets lacks the required information.
The new guidelines are here (pdf).
Accompanying data according to the Travel Rule Regulation
The basis for the guidelines is Regulation (EU) 2023/1113 (Wtr3 or Travel Rule Regulation) prescribing in Articles 4 to 6 what data on payer and payee must be sent with each transaction. The basis:
on the payer:
(a) the name of the payer;
(b) the payer’s payment account number;
(c) the payer’s address including the name of the country, official personal document number and customer identification number, or, alternatively, the payer’s date and place of birth; and
(d) subject to the existence of the necessary field in the relevant payments message format, and where provided by the payer to its payment service provider, the current LEI of the payer or, in its absence, any available equivalent official identifier.
on the payee:
(a) the name of the payee;
(b) the payee’s payment account number; and
(c) subject to the existence of the necessary field in the relevant payments message format, and where provided by the payer to its payment service provider, the current LEI of the payee or, in its absence, any available equivalent official identifier.
For transactions within the EU there are simplified duties.
Addition 26 November 2024
On eucrim the article EBA: New Guidelines on “Travel Rule” to Tackle Money Laundering was published on 5 August 2024.

