This report provides a brief update to the private sector on recent FATF outcomes of interest to the private sector, including updates from the FATF 4th Round of Mutual Evaluations. For additional details, please see the FATF public website.
Israel is achieving good results in identifying and responding to its money-laundering and terrorist financing risks, but needs more focus on supervision and preventive measures.
Israel has become the 38th member of the FATF, joining 35 jurisdictions and 2 regional organisations.
The United Kingdom has a well-developed and robust regime to effectively combat money laundering and terrorist financing. However, it needs to strengthen its supervision, and increase the resources of its financial intelligence unit.
To support financial innovation that is resiliant to money laundering and terrorist financing, the FATF has launched a new platform to share initiatives and developments for the benefit of governments and the private sector more broadly: FATF FinTech and RegTech Initiative
The FATF has identified jurisdictions with strategic deficiencies in their frameworks to combat money laundering and the financing of terrorism and proliferation: jurisdictions for which an FATF call for action applies and other monitored jurisdictions
Combatting terrorist financing is the top priority for the FATF, the intergovernmental body responsible for understanding terrorist financing risks, developing global standards and evaluating countries' compliance: FATF's focus on terrorist financing
The FATF Recommendations, the international anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism and proliferation (AML/CFT) standards, and the FATF Methodology to assess the effectiveness of AML/CFT systems.
