UAE reports strong 2025 AML/CFT/CPF performance with major gains in enforcement, intelligence sharing, transparency, and asset recovery, reflecting a more mature FATF-aligned FC framework

Key indicators show significant improvements in financial intelligence sharing, investigations, and asset recovery, including increases in mutual legal assistance requests, extradition requests, STR filings, and pre-emptive freezing actions. Suspicious transaction reporting rose sharply, alongside expanded inspections of financial institutions, virtual asset service providers, and DNFBPs, resulting in substantial administrative penalties…