On 11 March 2024, the European Commission published its report to the European Parliament and the Council of the EU on the implementation of the Fourth Anti-Money Laundering Directive (4MLD). The report is based on information from various sources, namely two surveys conducted by Commission services among Member States, as well as contributions
On 26 February 2024, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) announced it is considering revisions to Recommendation 16 (R.16), its Interpretive Note (INR.16) and the related glossary of specific terms, to adapt them to the changes in payment business models and messaging standards.
In the press release, the FATF
On 22 February 2024, in a joint vote MEPs and EU ambassadors chose Frankfurt as the seat of the EU Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AMLA). Nine candidates in total applied but in the vote, Frankfurt received a majority of validly cast votes on the first round of
On 14 February 2024, William van de Voorde, Chair of the Permanent Representatives Committee of the Council of the EU wrote a letter to the European Parliament’s Chair of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, which states that the Permanent Representatives Committee have reached agreement, except for one item, on the final compromise text
On 16 February 2024, there was published in the Official Journal of the EU (OJ), Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2024/595 of 9 November 2023 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010 with regard to regulatory technical standards (RTS) specifying the materiality of weaknesses, the type of information collected, the practical implementation of the
On 14 February 2024, the Council of the European Union published the final compromise text of the proposed Regulation, repealing Directive (EU) 2015/849 and proposing mechanisms to be put in place by the Member States on the prevention of the use of the financial system for the purposes of money laundering or terrorist financing. The
On 17 January 2024, the European Parliament and Council of the EU (Council) reached a provisional agreement on parts of the anti-money laundering (AML) package that aims to protect EU citizens and the EU’s financial system against money laundering (ML) and terrorist financing (TF). Under the new
On 16 January 2024, the European Banking Authority (EBA) released a final report containing guidelines which amend its existing guidelines on money laundering / terrorist financing (ML/TF) risk factors so that they extend to crypto-asset service providers (CASPs). The guidelines will provide a common understanding of ML/TF risks associated with CASPs
On 18 December 2023, the Council of the EU issued a press release stating that it had reached a common understanding on the process for selecting the seat of the future European authority for countering money laundering and terrorist financing (AMLA).
The co-legislators have agreed on the principle of organising joint public hearings
On 27 November 2023, the European Banking Authority (EBA) published a final report containing updated guidelines on risk-based supervision. The guidelines have been amended so that they extend to anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) supervisors of crypto-asset service providers (CASPs) as defined in the Regulation