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FATF’s Global Fight Against Terrorist Financing and Proliferation Financing

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has issued a series of significant updates in 2025, reinforcing its three core pillars: combatting money laundering, terrorist financing, and proliferation financing. Two key publications, the Comprehensive Update on Terrorist Financing Risks 2025 and the Guidance on Countering Proliferation Financing, highlight the evolving nature of these [...]

UAE Taking Further Steps

Subsequent to our article last week where we highlighted the steps being taken by the UAE to address its placement on the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) “grey list”, it seems there is no letting up – another announcement has been made by the UAE on 8th August 2022. In [...]

UAE Making Reparative Steps

In April 2020 the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) issued a warning to the UAE to improve its anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorism financing (CFT) framework, or risk being placed on the FATF ‘grey’ list. Subsequent to this, in August 2020, the Central Bank of UAE (CBUAE) established a dedicated [...]

FATF Issues its Revised AML/CTF Guidance to the Real Estate Sector

Last month features the release of the revised AML/CTF FATF Guidance for the real estate sector. The update, which was first agreed in June 2021, addresses the required risk-based approach for the sector, given how appealing the sector is to the criminal fraternity. Further, data gathered by FATF during its [...]

Following the Money: Recent FATF Compliance Findings

Historically, Financial Action Taskforce (FATF) evaluations focused on their member countries having implemented the recommendations. Now, the evaluations focus much more heavily on the effectiveness of the implementation. This is a firm move away from it being acceptable to have simply put procedures in place; now, countries also have to [...]

FATF Plenary Meeting Summary

The 2022 Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Plenary Meeting took place in Paris between the 2nd– 4th of March. Representatives of the 206 members of FATF were present at the meeting, in which they addressed four key themes: monitoring international compliance; the completion of the FATF’s Strategic Review; tougher money [...]

Information Sharing in the Private Sector

Of relevance to: All firms, particularly those within groups of companies The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) have issued additional guidance on Private Sector Information Sharing which aims to improve effective information sharing, one of the cornerstones of the FATF Recommendations. Information sharing is crucial for combatting money laundering, terrorist [...]

4MLD: High-risk Countries

Of relevance to: All firms Around one week after HM Treasury published its Consultation Paper on the Fourth Money Laundering Directive (“4MLD”) – see previous article “4MLD: HM Treasury Consultation” – a supplementing Directive (2016/1675) appeared in the Official Journal. Article 18 of 4MLD imposes an Enhanced Customer Due Diligence [...]

Money Laundering: Transparency and Beneficial Ownership

Firms will be aware that the key requirement in applying customer due diligence measures (CDD) for the prevention of money laundering (and, of course, combating terrorist financing) purposes is the identification and verification of the customer and, where applicable, of the beneficial owners. The beneficial owner is the person(s) who [...]

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FATF’s Global Fight Against Terrorist Financing and Proliferation Financing

UAE Taking Further Steps

UAE Making Reparative Steps

FATF Issues its Revised AML/CTF Guidance to the Real Estate Sector

Following the Money: Recent FATF Compliance Findings

FATF Plenary Meeting Summary

4MLD: High-risk Countries

Money Laundering: Transparency and Beneficial Ownership

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