Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

Isolating terrorists from financial, material, and logistical resources is a key element of any counter-terrorism strategy. Last week the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) participated in the UN Conference on National and Regional Counter-Terrorism Strategies in Malta. Read more 👇

Du 10 au 14 mars, le Secrétariat du GAFI a organisé une formation en français à destination des Secrétariats des organismes régionaux de type GAFI (ORTG) abordant le processus d’évaluation mutuelle et le rôle du Secrétariat. Cette formation s’adresse aux collègues ayant récemment rejoint les Secrétariats, ou ayant une expérience limitée du processus d’évaluation mutuelle. Tout au long de la semaine, les participants du GABAC, GAFIMOAN, GIABA, MONEYVAL et GAFI ont amélioré leur compréhension à ce sujet à travers des présentations et exercices pratiques et interactifs. 

"Women are almost 10% more likely to be financially excluded." At this week’s Women in Anti-Financial Crime: Inspiring the Next Generation of Leaders” event, hosted by Centre for Finance and Security (CFS) at RUSI in London, FATF President Elisa de Anda Madrazo highlighted the critical importance of ensuring we harness all of our collective talents in the fight against financial crime, as well as challenges facing and solutions to supporting women in the world of anti-money laundering and financial crime. Read more about the Women in FATF and the Global Network initiative: https://lnkd.in/gx8N4Ksn #AML

A Standards Training Course focusing on the supervisor perspective of anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing measures was delivered this week at the FATF Training Institute in Busan, Korea, with great success. A total of 40 supervisors from 33 different jurisdictions across the Global Network learned about the FATF Standards, with a particular focus given to the principles of risk-based supervision, including ongoing and emerging challenges. Learn more about the FATF’s Training and Support Activities ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/edGa9mnK

🗨️ "Every suspicious transaction left unchecked is a missed opportunity to protect society’s most vulnerable.” - FATF President, Elisa de Anda Madrazo highlighted the importance of financial intelligence in protecting children from harm at today's launch of ''Detecting, Disrupting and Investigating Online Child Sexual Exploitation". This landmark FATF report explores how investigatory approaches based on financial intelligence, and payment interception, can provide less distressing routes of investigation by reducing reliance on often re-traumatising victim testimony. https://lnkd.in/ewkPN9Gf #FollowTheMoney #AML

📢 Today more than 100 representatives of governments, law enforcement, financial intelligence units, banks, payment platforms, civil society and more came together in London to discuss the FATF’s new report, 'Detecting, Disrupting and Investigating Online Child Sexual Exploitation'. This FATF project was co-led by delegations from Australia and the United Kingdom and consisted of delegations from Brazil, Canada, Côte d’Ivoire, the European Commission, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, Singapore and Spain, as well as members from the Asia Pacific Group on Money Laundering, the Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units and INTERPOL. The report highlights how countries across the FATF’s Global Network are using financial intelligence to protect children from harm. Through international collaboration and strong public-private partnership we can build on this good practice to keep more children safe around the world. https://lnkd.in/ewkPN9Gf #FollowTheMoney

“It is imperative that all jurisdictions work together globally to detect, disrupt and investigate online child sexual exploitation”.   In a new report, published today, the FATF sets out practical steps that governments and the private sector can take to keep children safe.   bit.ly/41ErakI   #FollowTheMoney

Online child sexual exploitation is growing at an alarming rate.   Financial intelligence has directly led to the identification and safeguarding of victims and to real time interventions of support.   Read more in our new report, “Detecting, Disrupting and Investigating Online Child Sexual Exploitation” bit.ly/41ErakI #FollowTheMoney

We need to harness all our collective talents, skills, resources, and knowledge in the fight against financial crime. That is why this week, we have strengthened the Women in FATF and the Global Network Initiative with the launch of the 2nd edition of the FATF Mentoring programme. 💡The first edition included 15 mentoring pairs from across FATF members and regional bodies. 💡This year’s programme has expanded to 28 mentoring pairs from 16 members, 5 regional bodies, and 3 observers. At our last Plenary in February, we held a successful event in support of the growing initiative and the FATF discussed further proposals to support women’s careers within the FATF and the Global Network. https://lnkd.in/eb8FndXz #FATF #WomenInAML #FinancialCrime #AML #FinancialInclusion #IWD2025

At the AMLintelligence.com Women in Financial Crime Summit 2025 yesterday, FATF Executive Secretary Violaine Clerc highlighted evolving threats of illicit finance and the importance of a risk-based and inclusive approach in the fight against financial crime.    What are the key takeaways?  ▶️ Criminal networks exploit financial systems through both traditional and emerging methods to launder illicit funds. ▶️ Illicit financial flows weaken the financial system and economic potential of countries and divert resources that are needed to finance public services such as health, education, justice and security. ▶️ By promoting payment integrity, through proportionate measures, we can both support financial inclusion and make the international financial system a defensive shield against terrorists and criminals.   "It is our job to stay ahead of the threat. As criminals evolve, so must we." - Violaine Clerc.   #FATF #FinancialCrime #WiFC #FinancialInclusion #AML