# Article 12 — Transfers of funds with missing information (intermediary PSPs)

**Source:** [Regulation (EU) 2023/1113 — EUR-Lex](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32023R1113)

1. The intermediary payment service provider shall establish effective risk-based procedures for determining whether to execute, reject or suspend a transfer of funds lacking the required payer and payee information and for taking the appropriate follow-up action.

Where the intermediary payment service provider becomes aware, when receiving a transfer of funds, that the information referred to in Article 4(1), points (a), (b) and (c), Article 4(2), points (a) and (b), Article 5(1), or Article 6, is missing or has not been filled in using characters or inputs admissible in accordance with the conventions of the messaging or payment and settlement system as referred to in Article 7(1), that intermediary payment service provider shall on a risk-sensitive basis:

```
1. reject the transfer; or
1. request the required information on the payer and the payee before or after the transmission of the transfer of funds.
```

1. Where a payment service provider repeatedly fails to provide the required information on the payer or the payee, the intermediary payment service provider shall:
   1. take steps, which may initially include the issuing of warnings and setting of deadlines, before proceeding to a rejection, restriction or termination in accordance with point (b) if the required information is still not provided; or
   2. directly reject any future transfers of funds from that payment service provider or restrict or terminate its business relationship with that payment service provider.

The intermediary payment service provider shall report that failure, and the steps taken, to the competent authority responsible for monitoring compliance with anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing provisions.

## What this means in practice

The intermediary version of [Art. 8](/tofr/transfer-of-funds-regulation/chapter-ii-psp-obligations/article-8-transfers-with-missing-or-incomplete-information.md): same risk-based execute/reject/request triad, same counterparty-management duty to escalate against repeat-offending upstream PSPs, same supervisor-notification trigger.


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