On 30 October 2026 the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) launched a targeted review to accelerate how jurisdictions implement its Standards on virtual assets (VAs) and virtual asset service providers (VASPs). The FATF targeted review is aimed primarily at jurisdictions with materially important VASP activity, selected on the basis of their current assessment status. Initial…
On 29 October 2026 the Riksbank published its consultation response to the Ministry of Finance memorandum EU:s penningtvättspaket (Fi2026/01654), and its main request is a SEK 10,000 cash limit for retail transactions. The memorandum proposes leaving the option in Article 80(2) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1624 (the AMLR) unused, so the EU ceiling of EUR 10,000…
On 27 October 2026 the Czech Financial Analytical Office (Finanční analytický úřad, FAÚ) published the second article in its “AML balíček krok za krokem” (AML package step by step) series on the Czech AML package. The document, marked version 1 and titled “Povinné osoby z finančního a nefinančního sektoru a systém dohledu od 10. 7….
On 12 October 2026 the CSSF relayed the Ministry of Justice’s communiqué of 7 October 2026 announcing the Luxembourg terrorist financing NRA: the 2026 National Risk Assessment of Terrorist Financing, which covers the observation period 2021 to 2024. The report rates the sub-sectors within the scope of the Law of 12 November 2004 for inherent…
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,…
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),…
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…