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  • Risk-Based Customer Due Diligence: Regulatory Approaches

    Risk-Based Customer Due Diligence: Regulatory Approaches

    Regulators face a challenge in balancing policies on anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism against placing the least burden on outreach to the poor and unbanked. This Technical […]

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  • FATF Report: Terrorist Financing Risk Assessment Guidance

    FATF Report: Terrorist Financing Risk Assessment Guidance

    Building on the FATFs 2013 Guidance on National Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Risk Assessments, this report provides good approaches, relevant information sources and practical examples for practitioners to consider […]

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  • Guidelines on Risk Factors and Simplified and Enhanced Customer Due Diligence.

    Guidelines on Risk Factors and Simplified and Enhanced Customer Due Diligence.

    These guidelines set out factors firms should consider when assessing the money laundering and terrorist financing (ML/TF) risk associated with a business relationship or occasional transaction. They also set out […]

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  • Guidance for a Risk-based Approach – The Banking Sector

    Guidance for a Risk-based Approach – The Banking Sector

    The risk-based approach (RBA) is central to the effective implementation of the revised FATF International Standards on Combating Money Laundering and the Financing of Terrorism and Proliferation, which were adopted […]

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  • Best Financial Regulatory and Supervisory Practices on AML / CFT

    Best Financial Regulatory and Supervisory Practices on AML / CFT

    The purpose of this paper is to provide a practical guide for banking supervisors in the Americas, which can be applied in the supervisory process of financial institutions when assessing […]

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  • Methodology – For Assessing Technical Compliance with the FATF Recommendations and the Effectiveness of AML/CFT Systems

    Methodology – For Assessing Technical Compliance with the FATF Recommendations and the Effectiveness of AML/CFT Systems

    This document provides the basis for undertaking assessments of technical compliance with the revised FATF Recommendations, adopted in February 2012, and for reviewing the level of effectiveness of a country’s […]

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  • FATF Guidance – Correspondent Banking Services

    FATF Guidance – Correspondent Banking Services

    This Guidance should be read in conjunction with the FATF Recommendations, especially Recommendations 1, 6, 7, 10, 11, 13, 14, 16, 20 and 26, their Interpretive Notes and the Glossary.

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  • The FATF Recommendations – International Standards on Combating Money Laundering and the Financing of Terrorism & Proliferation.

    The FATF Recommendations – International Standards on Combating Money Laundering and the Financing of Terrorism & Proliferation.

    The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is an inter-governmental body established in 1989 by the Ministers of its Member jurisdictions. The mandate of the FATF is to set standards and […]

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  • Sound Management of Risks Related to Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism

    Sound Management of Risks Related to Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism

    Being aware of the risks incurred by banks of being used, intentionally or unintentionally, for criminal activities, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision is issuing these guidelines to describe how […]

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