FATF’s Oct 2025 Plenary removes Burkina Faso, Mozambique, Nigeria, and South Africa from its grey list, adopts new asset recovery guidance, and approves a horizon scan on AI and deepfake risks

The Plenary approved comprehensive new guidance on asset recovery, that will help countries build effective frameworks to close loopholes and recover proceeds of crime, including across borders – critical to reducing and disrupting money laundering and ultimately making crime unprofitable. It also approved a new Horizon Scan, to notify public and private sectors around the world about current and potential future illicit finance risks presented by AI and deepfakes…