AMLA Chair Bruna Szego signals stricter EU AML oversight of football from July 2029, targeting opaque ownership, high-value transfers, and cross-border flows through enhanced transparency controls

Football has become a global, high-value industry with complex ownership structures, cross-border transfers, and large financial flows, which can be exploited for money laundering or illicit finance. AMLA argues that this makes stronger oversight necessary. She emphasises that this new regime will require greater transparency, robust due diligence, and tighter control measures across the football industry as part of a harmonised European approach to combating illicit finance…