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New FATF President Presents Objectives For Two-Year Term

Source: Regulation Asia Editors, Regulation Asia
FATF President Marcus Pleyer will prioritise work on digital transformation, racially motivated terrorism, migrant smuggling, environmental crime, and illicit arms trafficking.
FATF (Financial Action Task Force) President Marcus Pleyer presented his objectives for his two-year Plenary period at the June 2020 Virtual Plenary.
Delegates at the Plenary also worked through an agenda of key issues, covered in a previous article: FATF Progresses Key Strategic Initiatives at Latest Plenary
During the German Plenary years, the FATF will prioritise work in the following areas:
Digital transformation of AML/CFT systems 
  • to monitor risks and explore opportunities for using digital transformation to strengthen AML/CFT efforts
  • to study the use technology to make the implementation of AML/CFT measures by private sector and supervisors more efficient
  • to study of opportunities and challenges for operational agencies and make systems to detect and investigate ML/TF and understanding its risks more efficient
  • to take stock of data pooling and analysis to help the private sector make better use of artificial intelligence and big data analytics for AML/CFT
Financing of ethnically or racially motivated terrorism 
  • to improve understanding of financial flows and cross-border linkages between racially-motivated terror groups and individuals, as well as their means, donor structures and typical modi operandi
Money laundering and migrant smuggling
  • to study on financial flows and ML/TF linked to migrant smuggling networks and their transnational routes
Environmental crime
  • to expand on the work conducted under the Chinese Presidency to prevent illegal wildlife trade by focusing on the wider issue of environmental crime and its connections with ML/TF
  • to raise awareness of environmental crime related ML/TF risks and inform possible policy work
Illicit arms trafficking
  • to strengthen FATF’s understanding of the links between arms trafficking and TF in order to build awareness and enhance operational responses
The FATF will also continue to deliver its core work of identifying risks, setting standards, evaluating countries and holding them to account for ineffective action.
In 2020–2022, the FATF will also work to complete ongoing initiatives, such as work on confiscation and asset recovery, beneficial ownership, proliferation financing, guidance for the real estate sector, and the fourth cycle of mutual evaluations.
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