(a) the customer is the Bahrain Monetary Agency ('BMA'), the Bahrain Stock Exchange ('BSE') or a licensee of the BMA;

(b) the customer is a Ministry of a Gulf Cooperation Council ('GCC') or Financial Action Task Force ('FATF') member state government, a company in which a GCC or FATF government is a majority shareholder, or a company established by decree in the GCC;

(c) the customer is a company listed on a GCC or FATF member state stock exchange with equivalent disclosure standards to those of the BSE;

(d) the customer is a financial institution whose entire operations are subject to AML/CFT requirements consistent with the FATF Recommendations / Special Recommendations and it is supervised by a financial services supervisor in a FATF or GCC member state for compliance with those requirements;

(e) the customer is a financial institution which is a subsidiary of a financial institution located in a FATF or GCC member state, and the AML/CFT requirements applied to its parent also apply to the subsidiary; or

(f) the customer is a borrower in a syndicated transaction where the agent bank is a financial institution whose entire operations are subject to AML/CFT requirements consistent with the FATF Recommendations / Special Recommendations and it is supervised by a financial services supervisor in a FATF or GCC member state for compliance with those requirements;

(g) the transaction is a one-off or occasional transaction not exceeding BD 6,000 (or equivalent in other currencies), or one of a number of transactions which are related and, when taken together, do not exceed BD 6,000 per year (or equivalent in other currencies).