AMLA Chair Bruna Szego, in her Il Sole 24 Ore Interview, outlines plans for a unified, risk-based framework to oversee high-risk institutions, guide non-financial sectors, and tighten defenses against ML/TF

The authority will directly supervise the highest-risk financial institutions—including banks, insurers, asset managers, and crypto-asset service providers—while guiding national authorities on non-financial sectors such as lawyers, notaries, real estate agents, and high-value goods dealers. AMLA’s comprehensive risk model captures both large money laundering flows and smaller transactions linked to terrorist financing, and its harmonized rules and supervisory guidelines aim to simplify compliance, enhance cross-border oversight…