On 7 October 2026 the Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AMLA) published its response to the European Commission’s targeted consultation on the review of Regulation (EU) 2023/1114 on markets in crypto-assets (MiCA). The AMLA MiCA review paper is dated 30 September 2026, the day the consultation closed, and reads MiCA…
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 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 17 September 2026 the Czech Financial Analytical Office (Finanční analytický úřad, or FAÚ) opened a guidance series for the firms it supervises, titled the AML package step by step. Its first instalment is narrow and practical: which legal texts will govern anti-money-laundering and counter-terrorist-financing work from 10 July 2027. That date is the pivot…
From 2028, the Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AMLA) is due to directly supervise a first group of up to 40 credit and financial institutions or groups across the EU; under Article 13(4) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1620, direct supervision starts six months after AMLA publishes the selected-entity list. The exercise…
On 11 September 2026, the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF) reissued its statement on the EuReCA joint controllership arrangement, and the edit is narrow on the page but material underneath it: every reference to the European Banking Authority (EBA) is now a reference to the Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing…
On 20 August 2026 FINMA published a short notice reminding supervised financial intermediaries that the Federal Council had, the day before, adopted the further measures of the European Union’s 20th Russia sanctions package. The FINMA Russia sanctions notice points to a decision taken on 19 August 2026, with the new Swiss measures entering into force…