Financial Crime Weekly Digest — 8–14 September 2026
Global enforcement actions, regulatory moves & intelligence from the world of AML & financial crime.
Insights
Insights
Morocco after the grey list: the FIU, the supervisors and the offshore holding circular
On 24 February 2023 the FATF announced that Morocco was no longer subject to its increased monitoring process, the list often called the "grey list". The FATF said Morocco had met its action-plan commitments on the deficiencies identified in February 2021:…
UAE: two financial centres, two rulebooks, one set of federal AML laws
Two UAE financial free zones have their own financial regulators: the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), supervised by the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA), and Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), supervised by the Financial Services Regulatory…
Qatar: 24 hours or three working days, and how to tell which applies
In Qatar, the deadline for a suspicious transaction report (STR) depends on what you suspect. There are two time limits, and the first decision an MLRO makes is which one applies.
Saudi Arabia: who supervises a fintech’s AML, and where STRs go
Saudi Arabia's fintech count has been running ahead of its targets. As reported by the Saudi Press Agency in October 2024, the Vice Minister of Finance said the number of fintech companies had reached 224 by the end of the second quarter of 2024, against a…
Mauritius: what Act No. 3 of 2026 changed for reporting entities
Mauritius's 2026 AML reform is not a new stand-alone law. Its full name is the Anti-Money Laundering, Combatting the Financing of Terrorism and Countering Proliferation Financing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2026, Act No. 3 of 2026. It is an amending Act.…
Financial Crime Weekly Digest — 1–7 September 2026
Global enforcement actions, regulatory moves & intelligence from the world of AML & financial crime.
Two mandatory lists: the Bank of Mauritius sanctions guidance, and what it asks of you
The Bank of Mauritius's guidance page Implementation of Targeted Sanctions, dated August 2026, sets out the obligations of financial institutions under the United Nations (Financial Prohibitions, Arms Embargo and Travel Ban) Sanctions Act 2019. It is specific…
From the annual review to perpetual monitoring
A compliance framework built around periodic reviews can carry an assumption worth testing: that a customer screened clean at onboarding stays clean until their next scheduled review.
Own your compliance data: the case for in-country screening
Ask a compliance team where their customers' most sensitive data lives, and the honest answer may be: "in a vendor's cloud, in another country." Names, national IDs, dates of birth, risk ratings, adverse findings — the whole due-diligence file — sitting in a…
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