Financial transaction report counts by postal code and activity sector

Report Volume Data

The report counts in this data set are broken down by activity sector, report type, the year and month of receipt, and reporting entity location.

The reporting entity location is represented by the forward sortation area (FSA) component of the Canadian postal code (i.e. the first three characters of the Canadian postal code, e.g. “K1P”) that designates the postal district where the reporting entity is located.

The Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC) is engaged in a multi-year initiative to implement important changes to its reporting forms. Part of this modernization now allows reporting entities to submit reports containing transactions from multiple locations, increasing efficiency and reducing burden. This will change how FINTRAC publishes statistics for reports that have been modernized. FINTRAC implemented the new Large Cash Transaction Report in October 2023. As such, reporting volume statistics for the Large Cash Transaction Report will be published at a national level for quarters 3 and 4 of 2023-2024 (from October to December, and January to March, respectively).

Protecting the Identity of Reporting Entities

By law, FINTRAC must protect the identity of the persons and entities that are required to submit financial transaction reports to the Centre under the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act. In keeping with this responsibility to protect information, FINTRAC cannot provide more specific geographic data than is contained in this data set.

Whenever possible, the data set includes the full FSA to identify the location of reporting entities submitting reports to FINTRAC. However, in any case where a certain location contains fewer than five reporting entities, or fewer than five reports submitted, only partial characters of the FSA are shown. This means that certain FSAs may contain only one or two characters (e.g., K or K1) instead of the standard three characters (e.g., K1P). In rare cases, it was not possible to provide a reporting entity location or report count without risking revealing the identity of reporting entities in a given activity sector or identifying a specific report, and so the data is provided at a national level only.

All FSA levels are hierarchically inclusive. This means, for example, that the total number of report counts for K1 includes all reports submitted within all FSAs that start with K1 (i.e. K1A, K1B, K1C), including those that may not be visible because they include fewer than five reporting entities in a given activity sector.

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Last Updated	October 22, 2024, 16:05 (UTC)
Created	October 1, 2024, 07:44 (UTC)
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Metadata Identifier Metadata identifier – can be used as the unique identifier for catalogue entry
Published Date Published date of the dataset.	2017-03-31
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GeoSpatial Area Data Span A spatial region or named place the dataset covers.

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Owner Owner of the dataset.	Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada \| Centre d'analyse des opérations et déclarations financières du Canada
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Publisher Email Email of the publisher.	open-ouvert@tbs-sct.gc.ca
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Source Source of the dataset.	https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/81cc47ac-e88d-4b7f-9318-8774a2d919e6
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The Indigenous communities the dataset is about Indigenous communities from which data is derived.

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