Our extensive knowledge at your fingertips
Other Regions
This section covers AML/CTF initiatives by organisations from Africa & Middle East, Asia & Pacific, Latin America & Caribbean and other regions and jurisdictions such as Australia.
African Development Bank updates
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
Asia-Pacific Group on ML
Australian Transactions Report and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC)
Caribbean FATF
Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC)
Eastern and South Africa AML Group
Eurasian Group
South, Central and North America AML/CTF Group
Inter Governmental Action Group Against ML in West Africa
Middle East and North African FATF
And many more..
Sections
Latest editions
Search
Topics
- Topics
- Accountability
- AML/CTF
- AML/CTF compliance programme
- Anti-corruption
- Artificial intelligence
- Asset Recovery
- Beneficial Ownership
- Biodiversity
- Blockchain
- Bribery & Corruption
- Bribes
- CDD
- Complex structures
- Confiscation & Freezing
- conflict minerals
- Conflict of Interest
- Correspondent Banking
- Corruption
- Counterfeiting
- Crime
- Cross-border finance
- Cryptoassets
- Cryptocurrencies
- Cybercrime
- Data Protection
- Deepfakes
- Democracy
- Digital assets
- Digitalisation
- Drug Trafficking
- EDD
- Enforcement
- Environmental crime
- ESG
- Ethics
- EU ML Directive
- FCPA
- Financial Crime
- Financial Inclusion & Literacy
- Financial Sanctions
- Fines & Enforcements
- FinTech
- FIU
- Fraud
- Gambling
- Greenwashing
- Human Rights
- Human Trafficking
- Illicit Finance
- Illicit Trafficking
- Information Sharing
- Integrity
- Intellectual property
- Investigations
- kleptocracy
- KYC
- Land justice
- Machine Learning
- market manipulation
- Modern Slavery
- Money Laundering (ML)
- NPOs
- Offshore
- OHCHR
- Onboarding
- Organised crime
- Other
- Payments
- PEPs
- Proliferation
- Proliferation of WMD
- Public Officials
- Ransomware
- RegTech
- Risk
- robotics
- Sanctions
- Senior Managers & Certification Regime (SMCR)
- Shell Companies
- Source of wealth & funds
- Stablecoins
- Supervision
- Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs)
- Suspicious Transaction Reports (STRs)
- Tax
- Tax Evasion
- Technology
- Terrorist Financing
- Trade Finance
- Trafficking
- Transaction Monitoring
- Transfers
- Transnational crime
- Transparency
- Travel
- Unexplained Wealth Order
- Virtual Assets
- Virtual currencies
- Whistleblowing
- Wildlife crime
Industry
Organisation
- Organisation
- ABA
- AFA
- AFME
- Afripol
- AMLA
- AMLP
- APPG
- ASC
- Asia Pacific Group on Money Laundering
- ASIC
- Atlantic Council
- AUSTRAC
- Austria FMA
- B20
- BAFIN
- BAFM
- Bank of England
- Basel
- BGC
- BIS
- BMA
- BoIJ
- CBUAE
- CCAF
- CFATF
- Charity Commission
- Chatham House
- City of London Police
- CMA
- Companies House
- Corruption Watch
- Council of Europe
- Council of the EU
- CPA
- CPS
- CSSF
- DEA
- Department of Business
- DFSA
- DIT
- DRCF
- EBA
- EBF
- ECB
- EFCC
- EGBA
- Egmont Group
- EPPO
- ESA
- ESAAMLG
- ESMA
- EUDA
- Eurojust
- EuroPAM
- European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF)
- European Commission
- European Council
- European Parliament
- European Union (EU)
- Europol
- FATF
- FBI
- FCA
- FCDO
- FCO
- FDIC
- Federal Reserve
- Fenergo
- FFIS
- FIAU
- FinCEN
- FINMA
- FINRA
- FINTRAC
- FIU
- FIU-IND
- FSA / FCA
- FSB
- FSC
- FSMA
- G20
- G7
- GABAC
- GAFILAT
- Gambling Commission
- GASA
- GCFCC
- GFI
- GI-TOC
- GIABA
- Global Initiative
- Global Integrity
- Global Witness
- GRECO
- GRETA
- HKMA
- HKSFC
- HM Treasury
- HMCPSI
- HMRC
- Home Office
- House of Commons
- House of Lords
- ICAEW
- ICC
- ICE
- ICIJ
- ICO
- IDB
- IMF
- IMLIT
- Insurance Europe
- Interpol
- IOM FSA
- IPO
- ISO
- J5
- JFSC
- JMLSG
- KoFIU
- KSA
- Law Commission
- Law Society
- MAS
- MENAFATF
- Met Police
- MONEYVAL
- NAO
- NASC
- Nasdaq Verafin
- Nature Needs More
- NCA
- NECC
- NED
- Netherlands FIOD
- Nice Actimize
- NYDFS
- OAG
- OCC
- OCCRP
- OECD
- OFAC
- OFSI
- OLAF
- OPBAS
- OSCE
- Other
- OTSI
- PNF
- PRA
- project CRAAFT
- PSR
- PwC
- RBI
- RUSI
- Sayari
- SEBI
- SEC
- SEPA
- SFO
- Singapore Police Force
- Spotlight on corruption
- SRA
- Sweden FI
- Swiss Federal Council
- Swiss OAG
- Tax Justice Network
- TFG
- TRACE
- TRACFIN
- Traffic
- Transparency International
- TRNC
- TRP
- UK Border Force
- UK Finance
- UK Govt
- UK Police Foundation
- UKACC
- UKPI
- UN
- UNODC
- US BIS
- US DEA
- Us DoC
- US DoJ
- US DoS
- US Govt
- US Sec
- US Senate
- US Treasury
- USAID
- VISA
- Wall Street Journal
- WCO
- White House
- Wolfsberg
- World Bank
Jurisdiction
- Jurisdiction
- Afghanistan
- Andorra
- Asia
- Australia
- Austria
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Berlin
- Bermuda
- Botswana
- Brazil
- Bulgaria
- Canada
- Cayman Islands
- China
- Colombia
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Estonia
- EU
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Ghana
- Gibraltar
- Global
- Greece
- Guernsey
- Hong Kong
- India
- Iran
- Ireland
- Isle of Man
- Israel
- Japan
- Jersey
- Kenya
- Lithuania
- Malaysia
- Malta
- Mauritiania
- Mexico
- Middle East
- Monaco
- Myanmar
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Nigeria
- North Korea
- Norway
- Other
- Poland
- Romania
- Russia
- San Marino
- Singapore
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- South Africa
- Spain
- Sudan
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Turkey
- UAE
- UK
- Ukraine
- Uruguay
- US
- Uzbekistan
- Venezuela
- Vietnam
UAE reports strong 2025 AML/CFT/CPF performance with major gains in enforcement, intelligence sharing, transparency, and asset recovery, reflecting a more mature FATF-aligned FC framework
Key indicators show significant improvements in financial intelligence sharing, investigations, and asset recovery, including increases in mutual legal assistance requests, extradition requests, STR filings, and pre-emptive freezing actions. Suspicious transaction reporting rose sharply, alongside expanded inspections of financial institutions, virtual asset service providers, and DNFBPs, resulting in substantial administrative penalties…
FATF lifts Indonesia’s terrorist-financing sanctions rating to fully compliant, adding further momentum to its technical reform programme
Indonesia’s third enhanced follow-up report upgrades Recommendation 6 on targeted financial sanctions related to terrorism and terrorist financing from partially compliant to compliant. Indonesia now records 7 compliant and 30 largely compliant ratings, while gaps remain under Recommendations 8, 25 and 28 on non-profit organisations, beneficial ownership of legal arrangements and DNFBP supervision.
FATF 3rd Follow-Up Compliance Report on Indonesia notes progress in AML/CFT legal, supervisory and enforcement measures, but flags gaps in implementation, asset recovery & risk-based supervision
Indonesia’s third enhanced follow-up report finds further progress since its 2023 mutual evaluation, with Recommendation 6 on targeted financial sanctions related to terrorism and terrorist financing re-rated from partially compliant to compliant. Indonesia now has 7 Recommendations rated compliant and 30 largely compliant, while 3 remain partially compliant, covering non-profit organisations, beneficial ownership of legal arrangements and DNFBP supervision…
Australia commits over $5M to strengthen AUSTRAC-led Pacific partnerships, enhancing intelligence sharing and capabilities to disrupt cross-border criminal money flows
The funding will support Pacific financial intelligence units through the Pacific Financial Intelligence Community, including further development of Project Taipan, AUSTRAC’s financial intelligence system now implemented in 10 Pacific countries. AUSTRAC will also expand training, mentoring and practical detection capability for analysts and regulators, with a focus on illicit flows linked to drug trafficking, child sexual exploitation, environmental crime and other serious regional threats…
AUSTRAC warns that charities and non-profits remain vulnerable to terrorism financing abuse and provides updated indicators to help detect suspicious cross-border donation flows
AUSTRAC’s updated risk guidance finds that money laundering and terrorism financing risk in Australia’s non-profit sector remains stable, with criminals continuing to exploit some charities and NPOs to move illicit funds domestically and overseas. It adds suspicious activity indicators to help regulated businesses identify possible NPO-related abuse and strengthen risk-based systems, controls and reporting…
GABAC’s 2nd Follow-up Report on Congo shows AML/CFT reforms advancing, but enforcement and asset recovery remain weak, alongside gaps in investigations and financial intelligence use
GABAC’s second enhanced follow-up report upgrades Recommendations 6 and 7 from non-compliant to partially compliant, Recommendations 10 and 12 from partially compliant to largely compliant, and Recommendations 16 and 20 from partially compliant to compliant, reflecting progress on sanctions, customer due diligence, politically exposed persons, wire transfers and suspicious transaction reporting. However, Congo remains in enhanced follow-up…
FATF’s 2nd Follow-up Compliance Report on Gabon report reveals AML/CFT progress, but ongoing weaknesses in investigations, prosecutions, intelligence use, and asset recovery
The second enhanced follow-up report assesses Gabon’s technical compliance progress and was adopted by GABAC in March 2026. It should be framed as a technical re-rating exercise rather than an effectiveness review, with the detailed ratings setting out where Gabon has addressed earlier deficiencies and where further AML/CFT strengthening remains necessary…
FATF marks further progress by the Democratic Republic of Congo, with fresh upgrades across terrorist financing, financial intelligence and preventive measures
The GABAC follow-up report upgrades Recommendations 6, 13, 14 and 29 to compliant, and Recommendations 5 and 10 to largely compliant, reflecting progress on terrorist financing offences, targeted financial sanctions, customer due diligence, correspondent banking, money or value transfer services and the financial intelligence unit. Recommendations 15, 22 and 34 remain partially compliant, with further work still needed on new technologies, DNFBP customer due diligence, and guidance and feedback to reporting entities.
FATF reports that Grenada has lifted several technical compliance ratings, bringing 31 of the 40 FATF Recommendations to compliant or largely compliant
The fourth enhanced follow-up report records upgrades for ten Recommendations, including terrorist financing, record-keeping, politically exposed persons, wire transfers, reliance on third parties, internal controls, higher-risk countries, DNFBP measures, supervisory powers and sanctions. Grenada remains in enhanced follow-up on the basis of its effectiveness ratings, with moderate shortcomings still affecting targeted financial sanctions for terrorism and terrorist financing and a final fourth-round follow-up report scheduled for the May 2027 CFATF Plenary.
FATF notes that Saint Vincent and the Grenadines has advanced its virtual asset controls, while Recommendation 15 remains only partially compliant
The follow-up review assesses the jurisdiction’s technical progress against Recommendation 15, noting amendments to the virtual asset framework, including revised registration obligations for VASPs and strengthened requirements around risk assessments, customer due diligence, record-keeping, suspicious transaction reporting and sanctions compliance. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines remains partially compliant with Recommendation 15 because residual gaps remain, including in relation to VASP registration coverage, targeted financial sanctions implementation, supervisory powers and the proportionality of available sanctions.
FATF’s 3rd Follow-Up Report on Dominica finds progress in AML/CFT reforms, but highlights ongoing gaps in BO transparency, enforcement, investigations, and asset recovery
It finds that Dominica has made notable improvements in its legal framework, regulatory supervision, and institutional coordination, particularly in aligning its laws with international FATF standards. However, the report also highlights continuing effectiveness gaps, especially in investigations, prosecutions, beneficial ownership transparency, and asset recovery, indicating that while the framework has improved…
The Winnipeg Police Service (Canada) reports Manitoba’s largest-ever drug seizure following a major interprovincial investigation that dismantled a cross-provincial trafficking network and led to 33 arrests
Authorities seized more than CAD 37.2 million worth of methamphetamine, cocaine, fentanyl and other drugs, alongside firearms, cash, vehicles, and illegal cigarettes, with suspects facing 174 trafficking, conspiracy, and proceeds-of-crime charges. Investigators allege the network used commercial transport, courier services, private vehicles with hidden compartments, and cross-border supply chains spanning Manitoba, Alberta, Ontario, and the United States to move drugs and illicit proceeds across jurisdictions…