Tag: financial-crime
6 posts · financial-crime
Morocco came off the FATF grey list in February 2023. The interesting part is what happened next — because de-listing is the point at which most jurisdictions slow down, and Morocco did the opposite.
Ask where a UAE firm's AML obligations come from and you will get three correct answers, depending on who you ask. That is not confusion — it is the structure.
Most AML regimes give you a reporting window measured in days. Qatar measures it in hours: an STR must reach the Qatar Financial Information Unit within 24 hours of the institution determining that a transaction is suspicious.
Under Vision 2030 the Saudi fintech sector went from 10 companies to 224. The regulatory response was not to build a lighter regime for them. It was to close the gap the other way: every fintech licence issued after 1 July 2026 must meet the same AML…
Mauritius left the FATF grey list in 2021 and spent the years since making sure it never goes back. The Anti-Money Laundering Act 2026, introduced on 24 March 2026, is the clearest evidence of that: twenty-four distinct amendments to the framework, landing…
Global enforcement actions, regulatory moves & intelligence from the world of AML & financial crime.
A working session with your compliance team, then a walkthrough against your own risk appetite: the lifecycle end to end, scoring weights set to your policy, and a review of the audit trail the system produces.
