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March 22, 2023

Updates from FATF

22nd March 2023 The Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit (FIAU) would like to inform subject persons that the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has recently published the following documents:  1) Guidance on Beneficial Ownership for Legal Persons The purpose of this guidance is to assist countries and subject persons to identify, design and implement appropriate measures […]

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March 10, 2023

EU Commission Delegated Act on High Risk Third Countries

10 March 2023 The Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit (FIAU) would like to bring to your attention the latest Delegated Act of the European Union’s (EU) Commission on High Risk Third Countries, which was adopted by virtue of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/410 of 19 December 2022 and published in the EU’s Official Journal of 24 February […]

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March 3, 2023

FATF Public Statements and other updates from FATF

24 February 2023 The Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit (FIAU) would like to bring to your attention that, together with the latest FATF ‘High-Risk Jurisdictions subject to a Call for Action‘ and ‘Jurisdictions under Increased Monitoring‘ documents, on the 24 of February the FATF also issued a Statement on the Russian Federation. A copy of these […]

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June 21, 2022

Publication of 2021 FIAU Annual Report

21st June 2021 The FIAU has published its Annual Report for 2021.  In his welcome note Director Kenneth Farrugia said that 2021 was another challenging year. The first six months involved intensive work to continue to implement all the recommendations made by MONEYVAL. Nevertheless, during the June plenary, the FATF decided to grey list Malta […]

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June 25, 2021

Interpretative Note on Assessing Jurisdictional Risk and the Consequential Application of AML/CFT Obligations in light of Malta’s Grey Listing by the Financial Action Task Force

On 23 June 2021, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) placed Malta under increased monitoring as part of a process to ensure that it addresses specific remaining deficiencies in its anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) regime – a process which is often informally referred to as having been “grey listed”. Grey […]

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May 4, 2021

Publication of 2020 FIAU Annual Report

The FIAU has published its Annual Report for 2020. In his welcome note Director Kenneth Farrugia said that 2020 was a particularly challenging year, given the Covid-19 pandemic and the challenges it brought with it. Yet, 2020 was hailed as a successful year. In the words of the Director: “Despite the pandemic, 2020 was a […]

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August 10, 2020

FIAU Update: January-July 2020

10th August 2020 We are pleased to inform you that the FIAU has published an update on its most prominent achievements during the months of January and July of this year. In this publication, the FIAU also shares some of its meaningful future targets and aspirations. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the FIAU has, like many […]

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June 15, 2020

Publication of 2019 FIAU Annual Report & the FIAU’s Rebranding

We are pleased to inform you that the FIAU’s Annual Report for 2019, which outlines our achievements against our objectives, as well as our priorities for the coming period, is available on our newly launched website. The Unit’s mission has always been to assist Malta in its fight against money laundering, terrorism financing and other […]

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