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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.

November 05, 2024

Follow up MER published for South Korea

October 10, 2024

Antigua and Barbuda removed from EU Tax Blacklist. Armenia and Malaysia removed from
EU Tax Greylist

October 03, 2024

Mutual Evaluation Reports published for El Salvador and India.

September 04, 2024

Mutual Evaluation Report published for Rwanda. Follow-up Mutual Evaluation Reports published for Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Namibia, and Zimbabwe.

August 05, 2024

United Nations lifts its arms embargo against the Central African Republic forces.

July 29, 2024

Mutual Evaluation Report published for Jersey

July 22, 2024

Follow-up Mutual Evaluation Reports published for New Zealand and Tajikistan.

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 19, 2024

Follow-up Mutual Evaluation Reports published for Gibraltar, Hungary and Moldova.

June 03, 2024

Follow-up Mutual Evaluation Reports published for Bulgaria, Mozambique, San Marino, Tanzania, Uganda, Vatican City, and Zambia.

May 08, 2024

Follow-up Mutual Evaluation Reports published for Croatia, Cyprus, Lithuania, and Poland

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.

April 09, 2024

Russia vetoes UN sanctions regime for North Korea.

April 03, 2024

Follow-up Mutual Evaluation Reports published for Australia and the United States.

March 19, 2024

Follow-up Mutual Evaluation Reports published for Serbia and Slovakia.

February 28, 2024

Following the latest FATF Plenary meeting, Kenya and Namibia have been added to the FATF AML Deficiency List. Barbados, Gibraltar, Uganda and the United Arab Emirates have been removed from the FATF AML Deficiency List.

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 08, 2024

The Cayman Islands and Jordan removed from the EU High Risk Country list.

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.

January 29, 2024

Follow up Mutual Evaluation Report published for Jamaica.

January 18, 2024

EU imposes sanction regime against Guatemala.

January 03, 2024

Follow up Mutual Evaluation Reports published for Brazil and Lebanon.