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October 28, 2024
Following the latest FATF Plenary, Algeria, Angola, Cote D’Ivoire, and Lebanon added to AML Deficiency List. Senegal removed.
October 10, 2024
Antigua and Barbuda removed from EU Tax Blacklist. Armenia and Malaysia removed from
EU Tax Greylist
July 01, 2024
Following the latest FATF Plenary meeting, Monaco and Venezuela have been added to the FATF AML Deficiency List. Jamaica and Turkey have been removed from the FATF AML Deficiency List.
Follow-up Mutual Evaluation Reports published for Palau and Vietnam
US State Department publish 2024 Human Trafficking Report. South Korea, Poland and Suriname move up to Tier 1, Brunei and Sudan move down to Tier 3, and Haiti is now categorized as a Special Case.
June 03, 2024
Follow-up Mutual Evaluation Reports published for Bulgaria, Mozambique, San Marino, Tanzania, Uganda, Vatican City, and Zambia.
May 01, 2024
We have updated our mechanism for calculating Terrorism Financing. The intention is to include the Mutual Evaluation Recommendation Assessments for I.O.s 9, 10 and 11 into the scoring, thus splitting the Global Terrorism Index score and the 3 recommendation assessments 25/75. This should produce a much more accurate reflection of TF on a country by country basis,. Most countries overall ratings scores have changed due to this update.
February 27, 2024
Follow-up Mutual Evaluation Report published for Cuba
Bahamas, Belize, Seychelles and Turks and Caicos Islands removed from the EU list of non-cooperative jurisdictions for tax purposes (EU tax Blacklist)
Albania, Aruba, Botswana, Dominica, Hong Kong and Israel removed from EU tax greylist
February 14, 2024
Mutual Evaluation Reports published for Azerbaijan, Bolivia, Lesotho, and St Vincent & the Grenadines.
Follow-up Mutual Evaluation Report published for Costa Rica.
February 06, 2024
The Transparency International Corruption Perception and World Bank Control of Corruption Indexes have been published. Although affecting most countries, these have resulted in minimal overall risk scoring changes.
Mutual Evaluation Reports published for Guinea and Montenegro.
Follow-up Mutual Evaluation Reports published for Kyrgyzstan, Mali, Nigeria and Saint Lucia.