The Financial Action Task Force ("FATF") has published a new edition of its Comprehensive Update on Terrorist Financing Risks. The 2025 update presents a sobering analysis of current terrorist financing ("TF") threats and...more
El Grupo de Acción Financiera de Latinoamérica (GAFILAT) publicó el séptimo informe de seguimiento intensificado y el segundo informe de recalificación de cumplimiento técnico para Colombia. Lo anterior, para efectos de...more
The Cayman Islands recently introduced measures to further improve its technical compliance with the 40 Financial Action Task Force (“FATF”) recommendations relating to anti-money laundering and countering the financing of...more
AML Standards May Exist in Theory, But Often are Not Enforced in Practice - Today we are very pleased to welcome, once again, guest bloggers Gretta Fenner and Dr. Kateryna Boguslavska of the Basel Institute on Governance...more
It has been quite a time in Hong Kong. And the protests continue. But, is the recent political turmoil a symptom of bringing Hong Kong up to international anti-money laundering (AML) standards? ...more
The Fourth European Union Anti-Money Laundering Directive (Fourth AML Directive), approved by the European Parliament on May 20, 2015, went into effect on June 25, 2015, repealing the 2005 Third AML Directive. Given the...more