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The FATF describes "High-risk jurisdictions subject to a Call for Action" as having "significant strategic deficiencies in their regimes to counter money laundering, terrorist financing, and financing of proliferation. For all countries identified as high-risk, the FATF calls on all members and urges all jurisdictions to apply enhanced due ...
FATF was formed at the 1989 G7 Summit in Paris to combat the growing problem of money laundering. The task force was charged with studying money laundering trends, monitoring legislative, financial and law enforcement activities taken at the national and international level, reporting on compliance, and issuing recommendations and standards to combat money laundering.
Formed in 1989 by the G7 countries, the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF) is an intergovernmental body whose purpose is to develop and promote an international response to combat money laundering. The FATF Secretariat is housed at the headquarters of the OECD in Paris. In October 2001, FATF expanded its mission to include ...
The Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering (APG) is a FATF-style regional inter-governmental (international) body, the members of which are committed to effectively implementing the international standards against money laundering (Anti–money laundering or AML), combating the financing of terrorism (CFT) and financing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
In this list of financial regulatory and supervisory authorities, central banks are only listed where they act as direct supervisors of individual financial firms, and competition authorities and takeover panels are not listed unless they are set up exclusively for financial services.
In May 1994, its mission expanded to involve regulatory responsibilities. In October 1994, Treasury's Office of Financial Enforcement merged with FinCEN. [5] On September 26, 2002, after passage of Title III of the PATRIOT Act, Treasury Order 180-01 [6] designated FinCEN as an official bureau within the Department of the Treasury.
At a meeting on 13 October 2010, the Committee of Ministers adopted the "Statute of the Committee of Experts on the Evaluation of Anti-Money Laundering Measures and the Financing of Terrorism". [2] This elevated MONEYVAL to an "independent monitoring mechanism" within the Council of Europe, directly reporting to the Committee of Ministers.
As of October 31, 2015 the ratings were as follows: [27] 8 countries still had deficiencies in their legal framework. 25 countries, including Switzerland, had completed their legal framework (Phase 1 review), but had not yet had a Phase 2 review. Among the countries and territories that had passed a Phase 2 review, none was rated non-compliant ...