FATF President introduces new criteria for determining how countries are placed on the grey list, exempting low-income countries under the $10bn threshold

The new shift means that “poorer countries” will not be put under the title of countries that need to be monitored and supervised with an extra examination based on the risks related to money laundering (ML) or terrorist financing (TF). The recently assigned president of the “Financial Action Task Force (FATF),” Elisa de Anda Madrazo, stated about new regulations that this decision would lead to a “significant decrease in a number of grey listed countries.”…