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GIABA publishes fourth enhanced follow-up report on Burkina Faso
The country has been upgraded on 3 recommendations, but remains non-compliant or partially compliant on 12 and enhanced follow up regime will continue.
GIABA publishes report on Mutual Evaluation of Liberia
Liberia has a good understanding of its ML risks and a fairly good understanding of its TF risks. Cooperation and coordination at the policy level is among the country’s strengths. LEAs are poorly resourced and lack training and have difficulty in identifying ML resulting from predicate offences.
GIABA publishes follow-up report on Benin
Benin has made significant progress in addressing the technical compliance deficiencies identified in its MER and is re-rated on Recommendations 6 and 7 from Partially Compliant to Largely Compliant.
FinCEN officials travel to Mexico for meetings with Mexican counterparts on illicit finance trends associated with fentanyl and other threats
Government agencies shared new financial threat information on fentanyl precursor supply chains, human smuggling and trafficking, professional trade-based money laundering, and fraud, all of which enable illicit trafficking networks…
APG Mutual Evaluation of AML/CFT in Laos
Identifies significant gaps in the assessment and understanding of national and sectoral ML/TF risks in casinos, real estate, banks, transnational organised crime, corruption, environmental crime and human trafficking, etc, as well as
cross-border risks.
JMLSG publishes proposed amendments to crypto-asset transfers guidance
The proposed addition of Annex I to Sector 22 takes account of amendments relating to cryptoasset transfers, as introduced by The ML/TF (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2022. Comments on the proposed revisions should be received by 25th August 2023.
OECD releases paper on “Corruption, accountability & IFF in oil trading”
Focusing on the oil sector, and the unique challenges of addressing and regulating the oil commodity-trading sector, this paper examines the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI), and the strengths and limits of the EITI Standard, through the lens of transparency…
IMF publishes technical note on AML/CFT in Iceland
Finds low level of risk in the jurisdiction.
Guernsey FSC: Thematic Review of managing the risk posed by Politically Exposed Persons
FSC undertook onsite inspections to 30 firms across the sectors with the largest exposure to PEPs and found that the controls employed by firms to mitigate PEP risk were effective, with only three of the 30 firms requiring risk mitigation programmes to remediate identified issues.
CFATF conducts Mutual Evaluation of Dominica
Recommends a more comprehensive assessment of TF risk, cross-border financial flows, legal persons, non-profit organisations (NPOs), virtual asset service providers (VASPs) and the Citizenship by Investment (CBI) programme
OSFI-Canada launches consultation on regulatory capital and liquidity treatment of crypto-asset exposures
OSFI announced two draft guidelines, one for federally regulated deposit-taking institutions and another for insurers, on the regulatory capital treatment of crypto-asset exposures.
ESMA: Inclusion of the UAE on AML blacklist requires ESMA to withdraw the recognition decisions of three CCPs
Applies to: Dubai Commodities Clearing Corporation, Dubai Clear LLC and Nasdaq Dubai Ltd.