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FATF’s Oct 2025 Call for Action flags North Korea, Iran, and Myanmar as high-risk jurisdictions with serious AML/CFT deficiencies, urging stronger due diligence and counter-measures

by AdrianaAMLP | Oct 24, 2025

The statement reaffirms FATF’s intention to protect the global financial system from jurisdictions with severe, unaddressed money-laundering, terrorist-financing, and proliferation-financing risks. It underscores the continued application of stringent measures until...

EU Supervisors warn financial institutions to stay vigilant as geopolitical tensions, trade disruptions, cyber threats, and rising crypto-asset risks threaten market stability

by AdrianaAMLP | Sep 19, 2025

The Autumn 2025 Joint Committee Report highlights that escalating geopolitical tensions, trade disruptions, and currency volatility are reshaping the risk landscape and demanding increased vigilance from financial institutions. While the EU financial system...

FinCEN issues notice to help FIs detect and disrupt financially motivated sextortion, in which victims are coerced into paying to prevent exposure of explicit content

by AdrianaAMLP | Sep 8, 2025

These schemes involve perpetrators using fake personas to coerce victims into creating and sending sexually explicit images or videos, threatening to release the material unless payment is provided. FinCEN highlighted the alarming increase in such incidents,...

AMLA outlines in its 2025 Work Programme that firms involved in crypto asset activities must have robust protections against ML/TF in place

by AdrianaAMLP | Jul 15, 2025

AMLA expects all licensed crypto-asset service providers in the EU to implement comprehensive and effective anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing measures from the outset. The Authority emphasizes coordinated, risk-based supervision in partnership with...

FinCEN extends by 45 days its first cross-border orders against 3 Mexican banks tied to fentanyl ML, blocking U.S. transactions and urging swift reforms or face steep penalties

by AdrianaAMLP | Jul 9, 2025

The extension, now pushing the compliance deadline to September 4, 2025, follows progress by Mexican regulators who have temporarily taken control of these banks to strengthen anti–illicit finance measures. While the orders prohibit U.S. institutions from conducting...

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FATF’s Oct 2025 Call for Action flags North Korea, Iran, and Myanmar as high-risk jurisdictions with serious AML/CFT deficiencies, urging stronger due diligence and counter-measures

EU Supervisors warn financial institutions to stay vigilant as geopolitical tensions, trade disruptions, cyber threats, and rising crypto-asset risks threaten market stability

FinCEN issues notice to help FIs detect and disrupt financially motivated sextortion, in which victims are coerced into paying to prevent exposure of explicit content

AMLA outlines in its 2025 Work Programme that firms involved in crypto asset activities must have robust protections against ML/TF in place

FinCEN extends by 45 days its first cross-border orders against 3 Mexican banks tied to fentanyl ML, blocking U.S. transactions and urging swift reforms or face steep penalties

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