I. Background
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) sets global anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorist financing (CTF) standards, continuously monitors worldwide jurisdictions with notable deficiencies in their AML/CTF regimes, and urges these jurisdictions to improve.
The FATF holds plenary meetings three times a year to review the progress of improving the AML/CTF regimes in these jurisdictions. After each plenary meeting, two public documents will be updated on the FATF website: the List of High-Risk Jurisdictions subject to a Call for Action, often referred to as the “black list”, and the List of Jurisdictions under Increased Monitoring, or the “grey list”.
II. Updates
The third plenary meeting of FATF-XXXIV held in June 2025 decided to add Bolivia and the British Virgin Islands to the list of Jurisdictions under Increased Monitoring (the "grey list"). The FATF simultaneously acknowledged the significant progress of improving the AML/CTF regimes in Croatia, Mali, and Tanzania, and agreed to remove them from the “grey list”.
Accordingly, the FATF updated the lists of High-Risk Jurisdictions subject to a Call for Action and Jurisdictions under Increased Monitoring, as shown below.
1. High-Risk Jurisdictions subject to a Call for Action (3)
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
Iran
Myanmar
See FATF website:
https://www.fatf-gafi.org/content/fatf-gafi/en/publications/High-risk-and-other-monitored-jurisdictions/Call-for-action-june-2025.html
2. Jurisdictions under Increased Monitoring (24)
Algeria
Angola
Bolivia
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
Cameroon
Côte d'Ivoire
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Haiti
Kenya
Lao PDR
Lebanon
Monaco
Mozambique
Namibia
Nepal
Nigeria
South Africa
South Sudan
Syria
Venezuela
Vietnam
British Virgin Islands
Yemen
See FATF website:
https://www.fatf-gafi.org/content/fatf-gafi/en/publications/High-risk-and-other-monitored-jurisdictions/increased-monitoring-june-2025.html
III. Requirements
Obliged entities shall pay close attention to changes in the lists above and take corresponding risk management measures in a timely manner according to relevant laws and regulations.
