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EBA publishes report on ML/TF risks associated with EU payment institutions
The EBA findings suggest that ML/TF risks in the sector may not be assessed and managed effectively by institutions and their supervisors. A more robust implementation by supervisors and institutions of provisions in these guidelines will mitigate the sector’s…
EU extends sanctions targeting Russian businesspersons to include immediate family members and others
These amendments were made on the basis that leading Russian business persons have engaged in a systematic practice of distributing their funds and assets amongst their immediate family members and others in order to hide their assets, circumvent sanctions and maintain…
Europol issues Annual EU Terrorism Situation and Trend Report (TE-SAT)
The report provides an overview of the terrorism phenomenon in the EU in a given year. It offers law enforcement officials, policymakers and the general public facts and figures on terrorism in the EU, while also identifying developing trends in this crime area, based on…
EC welcomes the agreement on enhanced rules to fight terrorist financing
The new rules will provide law enforcement authorities quick access to information on the accounts where criminals and terrorists keep or hide their funds or assets. The agreed Directive will give them access to the single access point interconnecting bank account registers…
EU Council and European Parliament reach deal on access to financial information
EU countries will have to make information from centralised bank account registers available through a single access point. This will help law enforcement and judicial authorities to fight criminal offences as they currently have to collect this information via the regular…
EBA consults on amendments to the Guidelines on ML/TF risk factors to include crypto-asset service providers
The consultation runs until 31 August 2023. CASPs as well as other credit and FIs are exposed to ML/TF risks. For CASPs, these risks can be increased, due to, e.g. use of innovative technologies, instant transfers of crypto assets across the world and services that contain…
EC publishes Commission Delegated Regulation amending jurisdictions with deficiencies in their AML/CFT regimes
The Commission’s assessment concludes that Nigeria and South Africa should be considered as third-country jurisdictions having strategic deficiencies in their AML/CFT regimes that pose significant threats to the financial system of the EU. Nigeria and South Africa should…
European Council adopts rules which will make crypto-asset transfers traceable
The crypto asset service providers are obliged to collect and make accessible certain information about the sender and beneficiary of the transfers of crypto assets they operate, regardless of the amount of crypto assets being transacted, ensuring traceability of crypto-asset…
TI Open Letter to the European Commission to uphold Corporate Transparency in the 6th AMLD
TI calls the EC to explicitly support strong provisions for meaningful stakeholder access to beneficial ownership registers that were recently proposed by the European Parliament and ask the EC to to help ensure that the 6th AMLD fully mitigates this risk and enables civil society…
EBA publishes its Annual Report on convergence of supervisory practices for 2022
EBA notes EU wide consistent implementation of 2022 priorities in supervisory work programmes and further improvements in the functioning of supervisory colleges but calls for more attention in some areas. Competent authorities also showed ability to react to macro…
GRETA issues the 3rd Evaluation Report for Netherlands highlighting the access to justice and effective remedies for victims of trafficking in human beings
In the report, GRETA notably urges the Dutch authorities to intensify their efforts to prevent and combat human trafficking for labour exploitation, and to strengthen their efforts to investigate and prosecute such cases. This includes taking further steps to regulate recruitment and temporary work agencies.
MONEYVAL releases its Strategy on AML/CFT and proliferation financing (2023-2027)
MONEYVAL held a high-level meeting in Warsaw where Member states committed to improve the effectiveness of their regimes to prevent and combat money laundering, the financing of terrorism and weapons of mass destruction proliferation. Illicit finance poses a major…