It’s been several years since financial authorities began to witness the rise of virtual assets and blockchain technologies throughout the world. Regardless of the technology underlying each financial service, the challenge has been how to apply technology-neutral regulation so that similar anti-money laundering/counter-terrorist financing...

Overview of the Fourth Mutual Evaluation On November 15, 2019, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) completed its on-site visit for Japan’s fourth mutual evaluation. Based on the mutual evaluation procedures, FATF was to adopt the result at its general assembly in June 2020,...

The recently released Financial Action Task Force (FATF) paper entitled, “Money Laundering and the Illegal Wildlife Trade”1 is a call to action for the private and public sectors. The paper reveals that wildlife trafficking2 and environmental crime3 bring in excessive profits and are frequently linked...