FATF GUIDANCE DOCUMENTS |
Assessors may consider FATF Guidance as background information on the practicalities of how countries can implement specific requirements. However, assessors should remember that FATF guidance is non-binding. The application of any guidance should not form part of the assessment.
See Methodology para. 29.
Guidance | Relevant FATF Standards/Methodology |
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National money laundering and terrorist financing risk assessment (05 Mar 2013) Terrorist Financing Risk Assessment Guidance (05 Jul 2019) |
R.1 (Assessing Risks and Applying a Risk Based Approach) |
Best Practices Paper on Recommendation 2: Sharing among domestic competent authorities information related to the financing of proliferation (07 Mar 2012) | R.2 (National Co-operation and Co-ordination)
R.7 (TFS Related to Proliferation) |
Best Practices on Confiscation (Recommendations 4 and 38) and a Framework for Ongoing Work on Asset Recovery (19 Oct 2012) | R.4 (Confiscation and Provisional Measures)
R.38 (Freezing and Confiscation) |
Guidance on Criminalizing Terrorist Financing (21 Oct 2016) | R.5 (Terrorist Financing Offence) |
International Best Practices: Targeted Financial Sanctions Related to Terrorism and Terrorist Financing (Recommendation 6) (28 June 2013) | R.6 (Targeted Financial Sanctions related to Terrorism and Terrorist Financing) |
FATF Guidance on Counter Proliferation Financing — The Implementation of Financial Provisions of United Nations Security Council Resolutions to Counter the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (28 Feb 2018) | R.7 (Targeted Financial Sanctions related to Proliferation) |
Best Practices on Combating the Abuse of Non-Profit Organizations (26 Jun 2015) | R.8 (Non-Profit Organizations (NPOs)) |
Guidance on Digital ID (6 March 2020) | R.10 (Customer due diligence (CDD)= |
FATF Guidance: Politically Exposed Persons (Recommendations 12 and 22) (27 Jun 2013) | R.12 (Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs))
R.22 (Designated Non-Financial Businesses and Professions (DNFBPs): Customer Due Diligence) |
Guidance on Correspondent Banking Services (21 Oct 2016) | R.13 (Correspondent Banking) |
Guidance for a Risk-Based Approach to Virtual Assets and Virtual Asset Service Providers (21 Jun 2019) | R.15 (New technologies) |
FATF Guidance — Private Sector Information Sharing (04 Nov 2017) | R.18 (Internal Controls and Foreign Branches and Subsidiaries) |
R.21 (Tipping-Off and Confidentiality) | |
Best Practices on Beneficial Ownership for Legal Persons (16 October 2019) Guidance on Transparency and Beneficial Ownership (27 Oct 2014) |
R.24 (Transparency and Beneficial Ownership of Legal Persons)
R.25 (Transparency and Beneficial Ownership of Legal Arrangements) Methodology IO.5 (Legal persons and arrangements are prevented from misuse for money laundering or terrorist financing, and information on their beneficial ownership is available to competent authorities without impediments) |
Operational Issues — Financial Investigations Guidance (11 Jul 2012) | R.30 (Responsibilities of Law Enforcement and Investigative Authorities)
R.31 (Powers of Law Enforcement and Investigative Authorities) Methodology IO.7 (Money laundering offences and activities are investigated and offenders are prosecuted and subject to effective, proportionate and dissuasive sanctions) |
Guidance on AML/CFT-related data and statistics (27 Nov 2015) | R.33 (Statistics)
Methodology Effectiveness Assessment |
Guidance for a Risk-Based Approach: Effective Supervision and Enforcement by AML/CFT Supervisors of the Financial Sector and Law Enforcement (23 Oct 2015) | Methodology IO.3 (Supervisors appropriately supervise, monitor and regulate financial institutions and DNFBPs for compliance with AML/CFT requirements commensurate with their risks) |
FATF Guidance on AML/CFT measures and financial inclusion, with a supplement on customer due diligence (04 Nov 2017) | Methodology IO.4 (Financial institutions and DNFBPs adequately apply AML/CFT preventive measures commensurate with their risks, and report suspicious transactions) |
Best Practices Paper: The Use of the FATF Recommendations to Combat Corruption (18 Oct 2013) | Methodology Introduction (Corruption) |
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Methodology Introduction (RBA) |