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Bulgaria strengthened its preventive framework to combat money laundering and financing of terrorism, says Council of Europe body
Bulgaria has improved its measures for tackling money laundering and combating financing of terrorism, concludes MONEYVAL in a follow-up report released today. The report found Bulgaria to have improved its compliance with ten of the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) Recommendations, namely...
The Holy See (including Vatican City State) improved Anti-Money Laundering and combating the financing of terrorism measures with respect to banking and legal persons
The Holy See (including Vatican City State) has improved its measures for tackling money laundering and combating financing of terrorism, concludes MONEYVAL in a follow-up report released today. The report found the Holy See (including the Vatican City State) to have improved its compliance with...
San Marino strengthened its sanctions for breaches of application of some of the Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of terrorism measures
San Marino has improved its measures for tackling money laundering and terrorist financing, concludes MONEYVAL in a follow-up report released today. The report found San Marino to have improved its compliance with the Financial Action Task Force’s Recommendation 35 (sanctions). The amendments...
Outcomes of MONEYVAL 67th Plenary Meeting
The 67th Plenary meeting of the Committee of Experts on the Evaluation of Anti-Money Laundering Measures and the Financing of Terrorism (MONEYVAL) and working group meetings were held from 21 to 24 May 2024 with Mr Nicola Muccioli (San Marino) in the Chair. The meeting brought together around 200...
Slovenia has improved its criminal legislation against terrorist financing, says Council of Europe body
Slovenia has improved its measures for tackling terrorist financing, concludes Council of Europe’s anti-money laundering body MONEYVAL in a follow-up report released today. The report found Slovenia to have improved its compliance with the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Recommendation 5...
Council of Europe anti-money laundering body: Georgia strengthened preventive measures applicable to politically exposed persons, further progress needed
Georgia has improved its measures for tackling money laundering and terrorist financing, concludes MONEYVAL in a follow-up report released today. The report found Georgia to have improved its compliance with the Financial Action Task Force’s Recommendation 12 (politically exposed persons)....
Poland improved its AML/CFT guidance and feedback for reporting institutions
Poland has improved its measures for tackling money laundering and terrorist financing (AML/CFT), concludes MONEYVAL in a follow-up report released today. This report focuses on Poland’s progress on improving the level of compliance with the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Recommendations 15...
Cyprus improved AML/CFT measures with respect to virtual asset service providers and virtual asset related activities
Cyprus has improved its measures for tackling money laundering and combating financing of terrorism, concludes MONEYVAL in a follow-up report released today. The report found Cyprus to have improved its compliance with the Financial Action Task Force’s Recommendations 15 (New technologies). It...
Croatia strengthened its preventive framework to combat money laundering
Croatia improved its measures to combat money laundering and terrorist financing , concludes MONEYVAL in a follow-up report released today. This report focuses on Croatia’s progress on improving the level of compliance with the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Recommendations 1 (Assessing risks...
Anti-money laundering and terrorist financing: Lithuania has improved coordination and co-operation, according to new report
Lithuania has improved its measures for tackling money laundering and terrorist financing, concludes MONEYVAL in a follow-up report released today. The report found Lithuania to have improved its compliance with the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) Recommendation 2 (national co-operation and...
MONEYVAL carries out evaluation visit to Guernsey
As part of the mutual evaluation of the UK Crown Dependency of Guernsey, a team of evaluators from the Council of Europe's Committee of Experts on the Evaluation of Anti-Money Laundering Measures and the Financing of Terrorism (MONEYVAL) carried out an on-site visit to Guernsey from 15 to 26...
MONEYVAL held assessors training in Riga
In the preparation of the next cycle of assessments, which will place an even greater focus on effectiveness and on countries’ risk and context, MONEYVAL organised a week-long assessors training in Riga. From 8 to 12 April, 39 experts from 24 MONEYVAL and FATF countries attended the training...
MONEYVAL launches the evaluation process of Latvia
MONEYVAL has officially launched its 6th round of mutual evaluations. Latvia has stepped up to be the first country assessed under the new round. For that purpose, a high-level exchange was held, with the participation of the Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Finance Ms Karina PLOKA,...
Serbia improved measures in relation to virtual assets and virtual assets service providers, says Council of Europe anti-money laundering body
Serbia has taken positive steps towards improving its anti-money laundering and terrorist financing (AML/CFT) regime, in particular concerning compliance with the Financial Action Task Force’s Recommendation 15 on new technologies, concludes the Council of Europe anti-money laundering body...
MONEYVAL continues the evaluation process of Jersey
In the framework of the 5th round of mutual evaluation of the UK Crown Dependency of Jersey, MONEYVAL organised a Face-to-Face meeting between the assessment team and Jersey authorities from 12 to 14 March 2024 in Strasbourg (France). The Face-to-Face meeting is organised approximately two and a...
Slovakia strengthened its regulations for financial institutions
In a follow-up report released today, MONEYVAL concludes that the Slovak Republic has taken positive steps towards improving its anti-money laundering and terrorist financing (AML/CFT) regime, in particular concerning compliance with the Financial Action Task Force’s Recommendation 26 on the...
MONEYVAL carries out evaluation visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina
As part of the mutual evaluation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, a team of evaluators from the Council of Europe's Committee of Experts on the Evaluation of Anti-Money Laundering Measures and the Financing of Terrorism (MONEYVAL) carried out an on-site visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina from 12 to 28...
Joint training of FATF Style Regional Bodies
A joint training was held in Paris from 26-27 February which brought together senior staff of FATF, FATF-Style Regional Bodies such as MONEYVAL and the IMF. The training covered inter alia the procedures for the new round of mutual evaluations, recent changes to the FATF Recommendations, and to...
MONEYVAL delegation takes part in the FATF Working Groups and Plenary Meeting
A MONEYVAL delegation, led by its President Mr Nicola Muccioli, took an active part in the FATF plenary and working groups meetings held in Paris from 19 to 23 February 2024. The delegation contributed to all working groups and issues discussed by the global network, including for example...
MONEYVAL welcomes Gibraltar’s removal from the FATF's "grey list"
The Council of Europe´s anti money laundering and counter terrorist financing body MONEYVAL welcomed that the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) decided at its plenary meeting held in Paris, from 21 to 24 February that Gibraltar will no longer be subject to the FATF's monitoring under its ongoing...
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