FATF AML List

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is the global standard-setting body for anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT). In order to protect the international financial system from money laundering and financing of terrorism (ML/FT) risks and to encourage greater compliance with the AML/CFT standards, the FATF identifies jurisdictions that have strategic deficiencies and works with them to address those deficiencies that pose a risk to the international financial system.

Outcomes FATF Plenary, 22, 24 and 25 February 2021

High-Risk Jurisdictions subject to a Call for Action

High-risk jurisdictions have 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 diligence, and in the most serious cases, countries are called upon to apply counter-measures to protect the international financial system from the ongoing money laundering, terrorist financing, and proliferation financing (ML/TF/PF) risks emanating from the country. This list is often externally referred to as the “black list”.

• Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
• Iran

Jurisdictions with strategic deficiencies

Jurisdictions under increased monitoring are actively working with the FATF to address strategic deficiencies in their regimes to counter money laundering, terrorist financing, and proliferation financing. When the FATF places a jurisdiction under increased monitoring, it means the country has committed to resolve swiftly the identified strategic deficiencies within agreed timeframes and is subject to increased monitoring. This list is often externally referred to as the ‘grey list’.

• Albania
• Barbados
• Botswana
• Burkina Faso
• Cambodia
• Cayman Islands
• Haiti
• Jamaica
• Malta
• Mauritius
• Morocco
• Myanmar
• Nicaragua
• Pakistan
• Panama
• Philippines
• Senegal
• South Sudan
• Syria
• Uganda
• Yemen
• Zimbabwe

Jurisdiction no longer subject to increased monitoring

• Ghana