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FSB releases its 2025 G‑SIB list, keeping 29 banks with some bucket shifts, highlighting stricter capital, resolvability, and compliance requirements to safeguard against systemic and FC risks
The designation requires these banks to hold higher loss-absorbing capacity, meet Total Loss-Absorbing Capacity (TLAC) standards, maintain robust resolution plans, and adhere to enhanced supervisory expectations, underscoring their systemic importance and the need for strong governance, risk management, and compliance to safeguard global financial stability…
FATF highlights in a new webinar that financial inclusion and effective AML/CFT go hand-in-hand, urging proportionate, risk-based measures that expand safe access to formal financial services
The session examines the strengthened FATF Standard on the risk-based approach (Recommendation 1) and the newly published guidance on financial inclusion, presenting case studies from jurisdictions and financial-inclusion bodies to illustrate how simplified and proportionate measures can broaden access without compromising AML/CFT integrity. It also highlights the unintended consequences of overly strict compliance—such as de-risking and exclusion of low-income or underserved customers—and urges authorities…
Egmont Group Chair champions global FIU collaboration at AMLP Forum’s 19th Annual Conference, spotlighting strong networks as key to tackling FC and urging increased investment and innovation
Egmont emphasizes that advanced analytics, AI, and secure digital platforms enhance intelligence sharing and asset recovery, but success also depends on trust, expertise, and sufficient resources. She noted ongoing challenges such as fragmented data, legal barriers, and sophisticated criminal networks, and called for greater investment, operational independence, cross-agency cooperation, and public-private….
UNODC’s 2025 Organised Crime brief warns that agile transnational criminal networks are fusing cybercrime, trafficking, and environmental crime, exploiting technology and weak governance
The report finds that organised criminal networks increasingly merge across illicit markets—such as drugs, cyber fraud, human trafficking and wildlife crime—exploiting weak governance, digital technologies and globalisation to multiply their reach. It also shows that these networks inflict substantial harm on governance, human rights and development by corrupting institutions, eroding the rule of law and deepening societal vulnerability…
FATF publishes its 2025 Asset Recovery Guidance and Best Practices, providing strategies/case studies to strengthen the tracing, freezing, and confiscation of criminal assets while protecting victims rights
It covers the full asset recovery lifecycle from investigation to management and return of assets emphasizing specialized units, inter-agency coordination, access to beneficial ownership data, and robust international cooperation through formal and informal channels. The guidance balances effective recovery with due process, proportionality, and protection of third-party rights, while promoting the use of recovered assets to compensate victims or benefit communities…
FATF will host a webinar on Promoting Financial Inclusion through a Risk-Based Approach to AML/CFT on 19 Nov 2025, exploring how a risk-based approach can expand access while combating FC
The session will include case studies, practical implementation ideas, and discussions on challenges that supervisors and financial institutions face while balancing inclusion and anti‑crime protections. FATF experts, private sector participants, and financial inclusion stakeholders will share insights, and participants can submit questions in advance…
GFI’s 2025 report Shadow Figures: Transnational Crime, estimates US$16 trillion in annual illicit flows mainly from cybercrime, revealing data gaps, impacts on developing countries, and need for urgent global action
The report estimates that revenues from ten major transnational crimes including drug trafficking, counterfeiting, human trafficking, illegal logging and mining, illegal fishing, wildlife trafficking, small arms trafficking, oil theft, cultural‑property trafficking, and especially cyber‑crime, range between US$ 12.30 trillion and US$ 16.21 trillion annually…
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…
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UN’s new Cybercrime Convention, signed by 72 countries in Hanoi, sets the first global framework to combat cyber-enabled fraud and ML through stronger cooperation and evidence-sharing
This milestone treaty—opened for signature in Hanoi on 25 October 2025—establishes, for the first time, comprehensive global standards that criminalise cyber-dependent offences (such as online fraud, child sexual exploitation and non-consensual image dissemination) and facilitates rapid cross-border cooperation, including a dedicated 24/7 network. It will enter into force once 40 countries ratify it, thereby empowering all States—especially developing countries—to enhance their technical capacity and collective response to cybercrime…
Egmont Group’s report The Role of FIUs in Fighting Environmental Crimes calls on FIUs to enhance analytical tools, cross-border collaboration, and sectoral awareness to track illicit financial flows
The report outlines how FIUs face significant hurdles—including limited awareness, resources, and cooperation—in detecting and analysing money flows tied to environmental offences such as illegal logging, wildlife trade, fishing and mining. It recommends that FIUs integrate environmental crime into national risk assessments, share intelligence widely (domestically and internationally), treat such offences…
FATF’s Oct 2025 Call for Action flags North Korea, Iran, and Myanmar as high-risk jurisdictions with serious AML/CFT deficiencies, urging stronger due diligence and counter-measures
The statement reaffirms FATF’s intention to protect the global financial system from jurisdictions with severe, unaddressed money-laundering, terrorist-financing, and proliferation-financing risks. It underscores the continued application of stringent measures until these countries demonstrate substantial and verifiable progress in remedying their deficiencies…