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This section include AML/CTF initiatives by FATF, OECD, Basel, Wolfsberg Group, Egmont Group, IMF, Interpol, UN, World Bank among others.

FATF Recommendations
Basel Institute of Governance AML Risk Country Index
Egmont Group Financial Crime cases
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
OECD Tax Evasion
INTERPOL
IMF AML/CTF
Wolfsberg Principles
World Bank StAR Initiative

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UNODC’s 2025 Organised Crime brief warns that agile transnational criminal networks are fusing cybercrime, trafficking, and environmental crime, exploiting technology and weak governance

November 11, 2025

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

November 4, 2025

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

October 31, 2025

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

October 28, 2025

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

October 27, 2025

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…

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

October 25, 2025

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

October 25, 2025

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

October 24, 2025

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…

INTERPOL adds 9 priceless jewels stolen from the Louvre Museum, including 19th-century royal treasures, in its Stolen Works of Art database and issues urgent alerts

October 21, 2025

Four suspects used a mechanical ladder to access the Galerie d’Apollon, cut through display cases, and fled with the items. A crown once belonging to Empress Eugénie of France was recovered at the scene, seemingly dropped by the intruders. Eight other items remain missing. The stolen jewels have been added to INTERPOL’s Stolen Works of Art database, which combines descriptions and pictures of more than 57,000 items from around the world. INTERPOL has also published a special edition poster alerting its membership of the theft…

G20/OECD Report on Blended Finance De-risking Measures warns that weak governance and opaque guarantee structures can turn blended-finance projects into targets for corruption, ML, and fraud

October 17, 2025

The report underscores that effective de-risking depends on transparent structures, coherent regulations, and well-governed financial ecosystems capable of attracting sustainable private investment. These measures, while aimed at mobilising capital, also strengthen safeguards against illicit finance by promoting clearer disclosure, traceability, and accountability across blended-finance operations…

OECD’s 10-year review of the BEPS initiative highlights major gains in tax transparency and global cooperation, indirectly reinforcing AML efforts by curbing profit-shifting and reducing avenues for illicit financial flows

October 15, 2025

The report reflects on ten years of international tax reform, noting stronger frameworks for transparency, information exchange, and fairer global taxation. These developments enhance the integrity of the financial system by narrowing gaps that enable corporate tax abuse and by complementing AML measures aimed at tracing and deterring illicit cross-border flows.

FSB publishes a report examining how authorities monitor AI adoption and related vulnerabilities in the financial sector, building on its 2024 report and outlining the next steps for oversight

October 10, 2025

The report identifies a range of direct and proxy indicators to support monitoring of AI adoption and related vulnerabilities in the financial system. The report includes a case study on recent developments in the AI supply chain and implications of financial institutions’ reliance on a few critical third-party providers. These include vulnerabilities related to criticality, concentration, and substitutability…

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