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MONEYVAL’s Mutual Evaluation Report on Serbia highlights a strong AML/CFT framework, while urging more consistent investigations, prosecutions and supervision to close remaining gaps
The report recognises improvements in Serbia’s legal and institutional framework, including better alignment with FATF standards, but concludes that implementation is uneven and that authorities do not yet address money-laundering and terrorist-financing risks in a fully systematic and consistent manner. It highlights key deficiencies such as limited financial-intelligence use, insufficient money-laundering investigations and asset confiscation, and weaknesses in risk-based supervision of non-financial sectors, recommending stronger…
MONEYVAL’s 4th Follow-Up Report on Cyprus finds notable AML/CFT progress, with 38/40 FATF Rec. met, but gaps remain in non-profit oversight and enforcement effectiveness
While the framework on paper has significantly improved, the report stresses the need for stronger implementation, supervision, and practical outcomes, keeping Cyprus under enhanced follow-up as authorities continue to address outstanding deficiencies and demonstrate sustained progress…
Swiss authorities approve the National Strategy on Combating ML and TF to enhance oversight, target illicit financial flows, seize criminal assets, tackle virtual currency threats, and boost global cooperation
The strategy strengthens prevention and supervision through risk-based oversight, enhanced transparency, and a beneficial ownership register, improves investigation, prosecution, and punishment by boosting financial intelligence and law enforcement coordination, and enhances asset recovery to seize and return criminal proceeds. It also targets terrorist financing, addresses emerging threats like virtual assets, and emphasizes international and private-sector cooperation to ensure a coordinated, modern approach to evolving financial crime risks…
Europol, supporting Operation Alice, leads a major global cybercrime crackdown, dismantling over 373,000 dark web sites trafficking illegal services from child abuse material to hacking tools and fraud
The operation, coordinated with law enforcement from 23 countries, led to the seizure of servers, electronic devices, and digital evidence, while identifying the alleged operator — a 35-year-old based in China — as well as hundreds of users engaged in illegal activities. This unprecedented action disrupted one of the largest and most complex dark web infrastructures ever targeted, highlighting the global scale of cybercrime and the critical importance of coordinated international law enforcement efforts…
Austria’s FMA fines Notartreuhandbank AG €127,500 for serious AML failings, citing weak controls, poor client monitoring, and inadequate fund documentation
The FMA found that the bank failed to properly assess and mitigate risks associated with certain accounts, undermining transparency and compliance with the Financial Markets Anti‑Money Laundering Act. The penalty underscores the regulator’s commitment to enforcing robust AML frameworks, while highlighting the reputational and operational consequences for institutions that neglect risk-based due diligence, though the bank retains the right to appeal….
ECB reports in its SSM Annual Report 2025 that EU banks remain resilient but face growing risks from geopolitics, digital transformation and operational vulnerabilities
The report reviews supervisory activity across the Banking Union, noting strong profitability and broadly stable asset quality, while identifying emerging risks in areas such as commercial real estate, cyber resilience and reliance on complex IT systems. It also sets out supervisory priorities focused on strengthening banks’ resilience to macro-financial shocks, addressing persistent governance and risk-management weaknesses, and enhancing oversight of digitalisation and new technologies across the sector.
Europol coordinates its largest Referral Action Day, targeting terrorist audio propaganda across 40 platforms, flagging 17,000+ links with 77 % removed, exposing the rise of audio in online radicalisation
The operation, led by Europol’s European Counter Terrorism Centre and supported by partner countries and online service providers, focused specifically on audio material such as chants, speeches and nasheeds used by terrorist groups to spread ideology and attract followers. Authorities reviewed and referred large volumes of content for removal, highlighting the growing use of audio propaganda by extremist networks and the importance of public-private cooperation to limit its dissemination across digital platforms…
AMLA launches a major EU-wide data collection exercise with banks to test and calibrate its risk assessment models, preparing to tighten oversight and directly supervise high-risk FIs starting in 2028
AMLA is working closely with national supervisors and the private sector, collecting detailed data from two groups of financial institutions: those likely to fall under AMLA’s direct supervision and a representative sample of other institutions. The exercise will provide high-quality, harmonized data, enabling AMLA to refine its models and ensure consistent risk assessments across member states. The outcomes will feed into the final selection of entities for direct supervision, expected to be published in 2027, helping to strengthen the EU’s ability to detect, prevent, and mitigate ML and terrorist financing threats…
MONEYVAL publishes Typologies report on ML, TF, and PF linked to conflict proceeds, showing how illicit funds are laundered to finance violence through complex schemes exploiting weak states
The report identifies how armed conflict creates opportunities for criminal and terrorist actors to generate illicit funds through activities such as trafficking, extortion and sanctions evasion, which are then laundered via formal financial systems, cash movements and trade-based schemes. It highlights that weak governance, corruption and disrupted regulatory oversight in conflict-affected regions enable these flows, calling for stronger international cooperation, financial intelligence and targeted risk assessments to detect and disrupt conflict-related illicit finance…
AMLA holds its first public hearing on 24 Mar 2026 to gather stakeholder feedback on 2 draft RTS: Business Relationships & CDD – Register here to participate in the sessions
The hearing will run in two online sessions (10:00–12:00 CET for business relationships, 13:30–15:30 CET for CDD) and is open only to registered participants, who will receive access codes to join. Stakeholders can provide oral feedback during the sessions, while the public consultation remains open until 8 May 2026 for written submissions, ensuring AMLA collects a broad range of input to make the standards practical and effective before final adoption…
AMLA Executive Board member Derville Rowland warns that €647B in illicit funds flows through Europe each year, urging stronger, harmonised AML measures to tackle cybercrime, trafficking, and fraud
She highlighted how criminals increasingly exploit technology, cybercrime, and “crime as a service,” with drug trafficking, human trafficking, and fraud generating vast sums. Despite representing under 10% of the world’s population, Europe handles nearly a quarter of global illicit funds, led by Germany, the UK, and France. Rowland urged businesses to strengthen AML measures, including enhanced risk assessments, monitoring, and board preparedness. Her warning coincides with upcoming EU AML regulations banning large cash payments …
Europol supports in exposing a global crime network after Swedish police analysed seized phones, triggering 15 arrests across Australia, Spain, Sweden and Thailand linked to drug trafficking and ML
The intelligence exposed a sophisticated criminal structure operating across Europe, Asia, and Australia, coordinating large-scale drug trafficking, violence, and money laundering. Authorities in several countries launched coordinated enforcement actions that resulted in 15 arrests across Australia, Spain, Sweden, and Thailand, alongside searches and asset seizures, dealing a significant blow to a transnational organised crime group operating at the highest levels of the global criminal landscape…