The FATF October 2026 plenary closed in Paris on 30 October 2026 with four removals from the list of jurisdictions under increased monitoring, the grey list: Bulgaria, Côte d’Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Monaco. The list of high-risk jurisdictions subject to a call for action, the black list, kept its three names….
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…
On 9 September 2026 the Financial Action Task Force published Risks of Gaming and Gambling, a Methods and Trends report drawn from contributions by more than 80 jurisdictions, industry associations and researchers, and it arrived with a set of new red-flag indicators written for compliance teams. For anyone running anti-money laundering controls inside a casino,…
On 6 August 2026 the Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AMLA) opened a voluntary survey asking electronic money institutions (EMIs) and payment service providers (PSPs) about their experience with the central contact point framework, and the window closes on 15 September 2026. The CSSF relayed the exercise to the Luxembourg…
On 17 June 2026, MONEYVAL published its third enhanced follow-up report on Bulgaria, and the headline is clear: Bulgaria is now rated compliant or largely compliant on all 40 FATF Recommendations, and no further reporting is required under MONEYVAL’s fifth-round evaluation. For anyone who runs country-risk models or approves correspondent relationships, the MONEYVAL Bulgaria AML…