On 4 August 2026, Luxembourg published the Law of 22 July 2026 in Mémorial A No 412. It is a short instrument, two substantive articles, and it adds a power the Luxembourg AML law had not carried before: it lets the Cellule de renseignement financier (CRF), the country’s financial intelligence unit, push fraud-risk account numbers…
On 1 July 2026 the United Kingdom took over the two-year Presidency of the Financial Action Task Force and used its first day to launch the FATF 2026-2028 Roadmap on Combatting Fraud. The launch event, opened by the incoming FATF President Giles Thomson and supported by Executive Secretary Violaine Clerc, set fraud as one of…
When a supervisor publishes its prioritised risks for the year, it is telling you where its inspectors will look first. The FI 2026 AML priorities are exactly that. Finansinspektionen (FI), the Swedish financial supervisory authority, set them out on 18 June 2026 in its report on prioritised risks related to money laundering, terrorism financing and…