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ESAAMLG’s 2nd Enhanced Follow-Up Report on Angola notes improved prevention and supervision, but ongoing weaknesses in enforcement, investigations, prosecutions, and asset recovery
The report assesses Angola’s progress in resolving technical compliance shortcomings identified in its 2023 mutual evaluation, including reforms relating to preventive measures, supervision, and broader AML/CFT controls that supported several re-ratings. ESAAMLG also highlights ongoing concerns around operational effectiveness, risk-based supervision, investigations, prosecutions, and asset recovery, indicating that further institutional strengthening and implementation improvements remain necessary…
ESAAMLG 6th Enhanced Follow-Up Report on Malawi highlights stronger AML/CFT legal and cooperation frameworks, but persistent gaps in supervision, financial intelligence, and asset recovery
The report identifies progress across several FATF Recommendations, including enhancements to targeted financial sanctions, preventive measures, beneficial ownership requirements, and international cooperation mechanisms that resulted in technical compliance upgrades. ESAAMLG also highlights continuing concerns relating to operational capacity, risk-based supervision, use of financial intelligence, and the effectiveness of money laundering investigations, prosecutions, and confiscation measures, requiring further reforms and sustained monitoring…
ESAAMLG’s 6th Follow-Up Report on Mozambique shows progress in sanctions, cooperation, and BO, but continued weaknesses in enforcement and intelligence use
The report recognises progress in areas including targeted financial sanctions, preventive measures, beneficial ownership requirements, and international cooperation frameworks, leading to upgrades in several technical compliance ratings. ESAAMLG also identifies continuing concerns relating to risk-based supervision, operational capacity, financial intelligence use, and the effectiveness of money laundering investigations, prosecutions, and asset confiscation measures…
ESAAMLG’s 6th Enhanced Follow-Up Report on Seychelles notes improved compliance in BO and supervision, but effectiveness gaps in enforcement and risk-based implementation remain
The report recognises progress in areas including beneficial ownership transparency, targeted financial sanctions, preventive measures, and supervision of financial institutions and designated non-financial businesses and professions. ESAAMLG also identifies remaining shortcomings relating to implementation effectiveness, risk-based supervision, and operational outcomes in money laundering investigations, prosecutions, and asset recovery, requiring continued follow-up monitoring…
ESAAMLG’s 16th Enhanced Follow-Up Report on Uganda finds stronger sanctions and preventive measures but critical gaps in BO transparency, supervision, and ML enforcement
The report assesses Uganda’s progress against FATF Recommendations and notes improvements in areas including targeted financial sanctions, preventive measures, and international cooperation frameworks, resulting in several technical compliance upgrades. ESAAMLG also identifies continuing concerns relating to supervision of higher-risk sectors, beneficial ownership transparency, operational capacity, and the effectiveness of money laundering investigations, prosecutions, and asset recovery measures…
AUSTRAC’s Updated Risk Snapshot 2026 flags a complex, tech-driven financial crime landscape where AI, crypto, and trade flows embed ML/TF and PF within legitimate systems
The update highlights that while traditional methods such as use of shell companies, trade-based money laundering, and structured cash flows remain prevalent, criminals are increasingly exploiting digital payment systems, virtual assets, online platforms, and faster cross-border value transfer mechanisms to move and disguise funds more efficiently. It also emphasises the growing role of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, which can be used to generate synthetic identities, fraudulent documentation, and scalable deception techniques…
AUSTRAC’s Money Laundering Update 2026 outlines a more complex, tech-enabled laundering threat, where crypto, digital payments, and cross-border networks are fueling and masking illicit financial flows
The update identifies enduring laundering methods including cash structuring, professional facilitators, trade-based money laundering, and misuse of property and corporate vehicles, while highlighting how technology is accelerating identity fraud, document forgery, and transaction concealment. AUSTRAC also stresses that increasing convergence between money laundering, cybercrime, scams, and transnational organised crime is complicating risk detection and reinforcing the need for stronger intelligence sharing, risk-based controls, and cross-sector AML/CFT coordination…
AUSTRAC’s Proliferation Financing Update 2026 identifies PF as increasingly covert and technology-driven, with AI, crypto, and trade routes amplifying DPRK- and Iran-linked risks across supply chains
The update identifies typologies linked to high-risk jurisdictions, including the use of front companies, dual-use goods procurement, opaque ownership structures, trade-based financial activity, and complex cross-border payment arrangements to circumvent international sanctions controls. AUSTRAC also urges reporting entities to strengthen customer due diligence, trade finance monitoring, and sanctions screening capabilities to detect proliferation financing risks associated with state-linked procurement networks and intermediary facilitators…
AUSTRAC’s Terrorism Financing Update 2026 warns of a fast-evolving, low-volume threat where crypto, micro-transactions, and instant payments mask illicit activity within legitimate financial flows
The update identifies continued reliance on small-value transactions, crowdfunding, remittance services, cash movement, and digital communication platforms to facilitate terrorism financing activity, often linked to transnational extremist networks and online radicalisation pathways. AUSTRAC also highlights growing concerns around emerging technologies, operational anonymity, and the convergence of terrorism financing with broader financial crime risks, urging reporting entities to strengthen monitoring, intelligence sharing, and risk-based detection capabilities…
AUSTRAC steps up supervision of virtual asset service providers through targeted compliance campaigns designed to strengthen AML/CFT controls as Australia’s expanded crypto reforms take effect
The campaigns focus on over-the-counter crypto providers and local exchanges, with AUSTRAC assessing how effectively firms identify and manage money laundering risks ahead of broader regulatory obligations applying across the sector. Expanded reforms require a wider range of virtual asset businesses to register with AUSTRAC and comply with AML/CFT obligations, reinforcing efforts to close regulatory gaps linked to organised crime and illicit financial flows.
FINTRAC strengthens its administrative monetary penalties regime, introducing tougher penalties and enhanced compliance powers for AML/CTF breaches in Canada
The case involves violations identified through FINTRAC’s supervisory activities, including failures linked to reporting and compliance control requirements designed to detect and prevent illicit financial activity. Publication of the penalty forms part of FINTRAC’s broader strategy to promote regulatory compliance, strengthen deterrence, and reinforce accountability across reporting entities subject to Canada’s AML/CFT framework…
APG’s 2nd Follow-Up Report on Nepal finds that while legal and supervisory AML/CFT reforms have progressed, significant gaps remain in effective enforcement, investigations, and BO transparency
The follow-up report reviews Nepal’s efforts to address deficiencies across Recommendations 6, 7, 24, 25, 26, 28, 34, and 40, concluding that reforms and implementation measures do not yet justify technical compliance upgrades. APG also highlights broader concerns around risk assessment updates, supervision of non-financial sectors, beneficial ownership transparency, and the operational effectiveness of Nepal’s AML/CFT framework, resulting in continued intensified monitoring…