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EP Committee on Constitutional Affairs to establish AML
The powers of the Authority should allow it to improve AML/CFT supervision in the Union in various ways. With respect to selected obliged entities, the Authority should ensure group-wide compliance with the requirements laid down in the AML/CFT framework…
FATF appoints Violaine Clerc as the Executive Secretary
FATF appoints Violaine Clerc as the Executive Secretary who takes the lead of the Secretariat at an important time, as the FATF works to regulate virtual assets and virtual asset service providers, enhance…
UK Govt on The Economic Crime Act 2022
The aim of the Act is to increase the transparency of ownership of UK property by overseas entities, by identifying the beneficial owners of those entities. ‘Overseas entities’ owning ‘qualifying property’ are required to register and…
GRECO 2nd Compliance Report on Greece
GRECO recommends that as part of a proclaimed integrity policy, efficient internal mechanisms be developed to promote, raise awareness of, and thereby safeguard, integrity in Parliament in a collective effort (e.g. training, discussions on ethics and integrity, awareness of bribery…
SRA risk outlook report on information security & cybercrime
This report covers what can be done by firms to seize some of those opportunities. It highlights notable innovations in the legal market, as well as the appetite and opportunity for investment into law sector innovations in the next few years…
FATF consolidated table of assessment ratings
This table provides an up-to-date overview of the ratings that assessed countries obtained for effectiveness and technical compliance. FATF and FSRBs conduct peer reviews on an ongoing basis to assess how effectively their respective members’ AML/CFT measures work…
HM Treasury on Digital Settlement Asset firms
HMT consults on managing the failure of systemic Digital Settlement Asset (including stablecoin) firms. This set out the government’s judgement that there is a strong case for bringing stablecoin with the capacity to be used for payments into the UK regulatory…
Europol arrests in Hungary for ML
The investigation uncovered that the members of the criminal network established a number of companies with no meaningful economic activities, and purchased others with the use of strawmen. The suspects opened bank accounts in the name of these companies…
TI Global Reality checks: Can the West bring kleptocrats to justice?
Anonymous companies make it easier for kleptocrats to purchase real estate or other luxury goods and to launder their ill-gotten gains. Germany, France, the Netherlands and the UK all maintain registers of companies’ beneficial owners, but none of the 4 sufficiently…
FATF on Israel’s progress in strengthening ML/TF measures
FATF has now re-rated the country on the recommendation: 16 – Wire transfers, from compliant to largely compliant. The report also looks at whether Israel’s measures meet the requirements of FATF Rec 2 & 15, which changed since their mutual evaluation…
FATF updates consolidated assessment ratings
FATF and FSRBs conduct peer reviews on an ongoing basis to assess how effectively their respective members’ AML/CFT measures work in practice, and how well they have implemented the technical requirements of the FATF Recommendations…
OECD consultation on the Crypto-Asset Reporting
The OECD is seeking public input on the Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework and Amendments to the Common Reporting Standard. This public consultation meeting focused on the key questions identified in the consultation document and issues…