Czech FAU High-Risk Third Countries: EU EDD Remains After FATF Exits
FAU published an updated high-risk-third-country list on 5 November 2026. How the FATF exits of Monaco, the DRC, Côte d’Ivoire and Bulgaria hit Czech EDD.
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FATF October 2026 Plenary: Four Grey-List Exits, Black List Unchanged
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….
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CSSF de-risking communique: managing ML/FT risk instead of avoiding it, what Luxembourg-regulated firms must address in their AML/CFT frameworks
A relationship manager flags a client as awkward. The country profile is messy, the ownership chain runs through two jurisdictions, and the file would take real work to keep current. The easy answer is to exit. Close the account, decline the onboarding, and the risk number on the dashboard goes down. The CSSF communique of…