Anti-money-laundering and counter-terrorism financing reporting for obliged entities under EU and national AML frameworks. This section covers STR/SAR filing workflows (e.g. via GoAML), standardised AML/CFT data collection templates, and the EU-wide changes coming with the AML Regulation (AMLR), AML Directive (AMLD6), and the new Anti-Money-Laundering Authority (AMLA). Articles explain who reports, what data is collected, deadlines, and practical implementation issues – particularly for banks, payment institutions, fund administrators, VASPs, and other regulated firms. Sanctions screening and FATF analysis of high-risk areas (stablecoins, unhosted wallets) are covered in adjacent sections. Start with the AML reporting practical guide or the AMLR overview for the EU framework.
On 7 October 2026 the Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AMLA) opened its consultation on the draft regulatory technical standards for the central AML/CFT database under Article 11(6) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1620 (AMLAR). The AMLA central database RTS sets out which supervisory information national authorities transmit to AMLA, in how…
On 2 October 2026 the Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA) opened a call for expressions of interest in sectoral roundtables on simplified customer due diligence (SDD), with applications due by 18 October 2026 at 23:59 CEST. The discussions will feed own-initiative AMLA simplified due diligence guidelines under Article 54 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1620 (the AMLA Regulation,…
On 1 October 2026 the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) started publishing a tabular overview of which guidelines issued by the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) and by the EU Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AMLA) it has adopted into its administrative practice, and which it has not. In the…
AMLA home-host supervisory cooperation moved from consultation to final draft on 1 October 2026, when the Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism published its final report on the regulatory technical standards (RTS) mandated by Article 46(4) of Directive (EU) 2024/1640 (AMLD). The draft delegated regulation fixes what the AML/CFT supervisor of…
On 1 October 2026 FinCEN released a notice of proposed rulemaking under section 9714(a) of the Combating Russian Money Laundering Act that would add a new 31 CFR 1010.668 and prohibit every covered US financial institution from sending or receiving funds, including convertible virtual currency (CVC), in transactions involving the A7 Network’s Sub-Agents. The FinCEN…
On 1 October 2026 the Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AMLA) announced that it had finalised three sets of regulatory technical standards for the private sector and submitted them to the European Commission. The AMLA final RTS cover customer due diligence under Article 28(1) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1624 (the AMLR),…
On 18 September 2026 the Federal Council amended the Ordinance of 16 March 2022 on Measures against Belarus (SR 946.231.116.9), and the changes took effect in Switzerland on 19 September. FINMA flagged the change in a notice on 25 September. The FINMA Belarus sanctions notice points to a financial package modelled on the Russia regime:…
The Luxembourg sanctions risk assessment that the CSSF drew to supervised firms’ attention in a communiqué of 24 September 2026 is the country’s first vertical risk assessment (VRA) of targeted financial sanctions (TFS) linked to terrorist financing (TF) and proliferation financing (PF). The Ministry of Finance led the exercise and released the report, titled “PF…
On 23 September 2026 the Financial Action Task Force published its mutual evaluation report on Türkiye, based on an on-site visit in November 2025. The FATF Türkiye mutual evaluation rates Recommendation 13, the correspondent banking standard, compliant, and puts 38 of the 40 Recommendations in the compliant or largely compliant bands. It also finds only…
The FCA money mule review published on 23 September 2026, “Money mules: mule activity and cashing out findings”, reports that the 35 retail banks, building societies, challenger banks, payment institutions (PIs) and e-money institutions (EMIs) it surveyed offboarded 238,396 suspected money mules in 2025, up from 184,935 in 2023 and 233,269 in 2024. Its sharper…