FATF Plenary meeting 23 June 2023

FATF list (financial action task force on money laundering and terrorist financing):

The FATF identifies jurisdictions with weak measures to combat money laundering and terrorist financing (AML/CFT) in two FATF public documents that are issued three times a year. The FATF’s process to publicly list countries with weak AML/CFT regimes has proved effective. 

As of June 2023, the FATF has reviewed over 125 countries and jurisdictions and publicly identified 98 of them. Of these 98, 72 have since made the necessary reforms to address their AML/CFT weaknesses and have been removed from the process. 

High-Risk Jurisdictions subject to a Call for Action (i.e. "black list")

This statement,  (previously called "Public Statement"), identifies countries or jurisdictions with serious strategic deficiencies to counter money laundering, terrorist financing, and financing of proliferation. For all countries identified as high-risk, the FATF calls on all members and urges all jurisdictions to apply enhanced due diligence, and in the most serious cases, countries are called upon to apply counter-measures to protect the international financial system from the ongoing money laundering, terrorist financing, and proliferation financing risks emanating from the country.

This list is often externally referred to as the black list.

North Korea

Iran

Myanmar 

Jurisdictions under Increased Monitoring (i.e. "grey list")

This statement identifies countries that are actively working with the FATF to address strategic deficiencies in their regimes to counter money laundering, terrorist financing, and proliferation financing. When the FATF places a jurisdiction under increased monitoring, it means the country has committed to resolve swiftly the identified strategic deficiencies within agreed time frames and is subject to increased monitoring.

Grey list:

Albania

Barbados

Burkina Faso

Cayman Islands

Congo 

Gibraltar

Haiti

Jamaica

Jordan

Mali

Mozambique 

Nigeria

Panama

Philippines 

Senegal

South Africa

South Sudan

Syria

Tanzania

Türkiye 

Uganda

UAE

Yemen

No longer subject to increased monitoring by the FATF:

Cambodia

Morocco