At the ACAMS Effectiveness webinar held on 16th July, 2025, this topic was discussed from different perspectives in the fight against financial crime including money laundering. Whilst we have explored much in terms of effectiveness, we still don’t have a clear consistent & common purpose for those involved. We are talking about hundreds of thousands of people & maybe more. Stakeholder effectiveness has been developed, for example by the Wolfsberg Group for Financial Institutions and by the...| Financial Crime News
The FATF published a 134 page Report on TF risks which follows its previous comprehensive TF update in 2015. FCN have published a 2 page high level summary of this report. This report will assist both public and private sectors improve their responses, as effectiveness ratings for IO9 (Investigations and prosecutions of TF offences) & IO10 (Prevention of TO activities including TF raising storing moving & using funds including related to NP0s). Results as at mid 2025 from 197 countries as...| Financial Crime News
The FATF published updated payment transparency standards following their approval in June 2025, after a few years of consultation. The hard work to reach agreement has to be recognised and in particular the work of FATF’s Policy Development Group led by Co Chairs Takahide Habuchi & Elad Weider This initiative may well have been one of the toughest tasks FATF has undertaken and 2 consultations reflect the challenges involved, but also the wider environment. After many years a FATF com...| Financial Crime News
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) have just released a new report on Complex Proliferation Finance and Sanctions Evasion Schemes. Clearly topical and despite FATF’s mandate limited to UN sanctions this is by extension a back door way of also applying FATF expectations on UN approved sanctions compliance to other sanctions compliance expectations. Compliance with FATF Recommendation 7 and Immediate Outcome 11, from 194 countries needs significant improvement so findings from this report...| Financial Crime News
1. Introduction Today Financial Crime News is publishing a Financial Crime Dashboard (see Annex 1) for Latvia and a summary of the progress made, a week after the new Moneyval report for Latvia was discussed at the joint FATF Moneyval Meeting and is said to be positive. Nevertheless, we will have to wait until Q4 2025 as Latvia is the first country to be assessed under the 6th round of country evaluations so it will go through a full quality check. For the avoidance of any doubt, FCN has not ...| Financial Crime News
Issue 06 is out now with articles on space resource exploitation, non-performative restorative justice, sanitary regulation of food production, global regulation of data, preventing illicit financial flows, desensitization to wartime violence, the suspicious 'magic' of AI + 1 key TWAIL text now in Spanish.| TWAILR
PalmPay, an emerging markets-focused, multinational fintech company, has released its forecasts for the mobile money sub-sector in 2025, Techeconomy can| Tech | Business | Economy
Lyudmyla Kozlovska, President of the Open Dialogue Foundation, discusses the intersection of Bitcoin, human rights, and the weaponization of financial regulations. She highlights the dangers of transnational financial repression, where authoritarian regimes exploit financial action task force (FATF) and anti-money laundering (AML) regulations to target individuals and organizations. The discussion emphasizes the need for privacy […] Artykuł Your Financial Data Can Be Weaponized Against You...| Open Dialogue Foundation
Objective This report provides an analysis of the current and forthcoming regulatory frameworks within the European Union laws, based on the FATF’s recommendations, concerning non-custodial Bitcoin and other crypto-assets wallets (“non-custodial wallets”) and peer-to-peer cryptocurrency transactions (“P2P transactions”). The primary aim is to determine whether, and to what extent, non-custodial wallets fall within the purview […]| Open Dialogue Foundation
As risk of money laundering is amplified […]| Nowlebanon
Discover the essential partnership between KYC and AML programs, ensuring compliance and integrity in the financial sector.| Jumio: End-to-End ID, Identity Verification and AML Solutions
