Malta FSA unveils its 2026 Financial Crime Compliance Strategy, shifting towards stronger risk-based supervision, regulatory cooperation and industry engagement, while aligning with EU AML reforms and AMLA

by | Aug 6, 2026

The strategy shifts supervision from checklist-based compliance to evidence of effective controls, with continuous oversight, stronger scrutiny of MLRO competence and governance, and greater integration of AML risk with prudential, IT, operational resilience and...

Times of Malta: Stanleybet Malta Limited, a betting company, has been fined €225,000 for serious AML failings, including weak monitoring and fragmented controls that left it exposed to ML/TF risks

by | Apr 6, 2026

The regulator found that the company had systemic weaknesses in monitoring customer transactions across its betting shops, relying on unreliable manual identification methods and lacking a complete customer database. It also noted that customers could easily bypass...