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High Risk Jurisdictions – Updated List

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), also known as the Global Anti-Money Laundering watchdog, updates its list of high-risk and other monitored jurisdictions which are considered to have weak AML-CFT regimes. This is done three times a year (February, June and October). As per last update on October 21, 2022, the blacklisted high-risk jurisdictions, subject to […]

Written By Chiara Barbacci

On October 24, 2022
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The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), also known as the Global Anti-Money Laundering watchdog, updates its list of high-risk and other monitored jurisdictions which are considered to have weak AML-CFT regimes. This is done three times a year (February, June and October).

As per last update on October 21, 2022, the blacklisted high-risk jurisdictions, subject to a call for action to comply with the FATF standards, are:

  • Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK)
  • Iran
  • Myanmar

FATF in its Grey List identifies additional jurisdictions having strategic deficiencies in their regimes to counter Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Proliferation Financing. As of October 21, 2022, the list of countries included are the following:

  • Albania
  • Barbados
  • Burkina Faso
  • Cambodia
  • Cayman Islands
  • Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Gibraltar
  • Haiti
  • Jamaica
  • Jordan
  • Mali
  • Morocco
  • Mozambique
  • Panama
  • Philippines
  • Senegal
  • South Sudan
  • Syria
  • Tanzania
  • Türkiye
  • Uganda
  • United Arab Emirates
  • Yemen

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