FATF’s Plenary (June 2026) unveils tougher payment transparency standards, enhanced intelligence sharing, and new measures addressing TF, virtual assets, DeFi, and emerging tech-enabled threats

The Plenary advanced reforms to improve payment transparency, humanitarian safeguards within sanctions regimes, and responses to evolving threats linked to virtual assets, DeFi, social media misuse and underground banking, while setting the strategic direction for the incoming UK Presidency, which will prioritise tackling global fraud, strengthening risk-based…