Notable that the FATF has given up on any pretence that their institute in Korea was about research as well as training, but here’s an opportunity for those interested running training for the FATF club.

Our friends at RUSI have launched a new series of their podcast, the Suspicious Transaction Report. This season's theme is 'High Risk Thinking' and who better to start with than Graham Barrow.

The illegal wildlife trade generates revenues of up to $23 billion a year. It has links to modern slavery, drugs and the arms trade. A new FATF report finds it is a “global threat” and financial investigations are key to dismantling it ➡️ bit.ly/31cJYtW 1/ #wildlife

Final statement from the outgoing FATF President as China hands over the reins to Germany.

And here is the new President of the FATF, the first who will hold the position for two years, rather than one. One of his first priorities should be to complete the Strategic Review of the FATF assessment process.

FATF has completed a review of the implementation of its revised Standards on virtual assets and virtual asset service providers, 12 months after they were introduced. Good effort in the current crisis! fatf-gafi.org/publications/f…

FATF public consultation on targeted financial sanctions.

FATF’s latest business bulletin has lots about what the FATF is and has been doing, but nothing new by way of guidance for businesses. A handy reference, nonetheless.

Speaking virtually to the OSCE Counter-Terrorism Conference in Vienna, FATF President Marcus Pleyer emphasised how new digital technologies can potentially help speed up terrorist financing probes #FollowTheMoney

Breaking: the Financial Action Task Force has added Cayman Islands to its "greylist" of jurisdictions with major deficiencies in their anti-money laundering regimes. The UK overseas territory also topped the Tax Justice Network Bsky: @taxjustice.net's 2020 Financial Secrecy Index.

FATF press brief being live-streamed here oecdtv.webtv-solution.com/7546/or/_virtu…

What is the FATF? It's the global money laundering and terrorist financing watchdog. It sets standards for more than 200 countries & jurisdictions to help combat serious crime. This week, the FATF is holding its virtual plenary meeting. See more here➡️bit.ly/3qcklE7

FATF announces “grey-listing” of Jordan, Mali and…Turkey at close of this week’s Plenary meeting.

FATF to consult on changes to beneficial ownership requirements in advance of next Plenary in February.

FATF post-plenary presser is being live-streamed on their website.

FATF will “encourage”, not require, public registries of beneficial ownership in proposed amendments to Standards: FATF President

New FATF guidance on implementation of Recs relating to virtual assets will be published next week.

The official outcomes of this week’s FATC plenary are here. Lots to digest! fatf-gafi.org//publications/…

The FATF “unintended consequences” report is out. Of course, that’s only unintended consequences of “misapplication” of the Standards, not that there might be adverse consequences of the Standards themselves, despite their restrictive nature.

There appears to be a problem with the #MENAFATF website - looked as if the domain was up for renewal last week and now an error message.