Financial Action Task Force

Post-sanctions economic recovery requires a roadmap, new partners, and new practices that can displace, prosecute, and deter corruption that flourished under sanctions.

The FATF Mutual Evaluation of the United States serves as an opportunity to promote the preservation of multilateral norms and standards.

The case of a jailed journalist in the Philippines is a warning for how efforts to counter terrorism financing can be manipulated into political tools of repression.

The UAE has begun to take corrective steps to rein in illicit gold trade. The incoming Trump administration could find lessons there.

After years of detrimental side effects from the Financial Action Task Force's power, a course correction is overdue.

Governments around the world are cracking down on protest rights; activists are documenting the playbook and building their own.

Stronger tools are needed for regulators to identify the true owners of financial holdings.

A public beneficial ownership registry, accessible to civil society and journalists, is integral to anti-corruption efforts.

Congress and the Treasury Department must curb law firms, financial advisors, and others implicated in the Pandora Papers secrecy gambits.

Through the work of advocates, FATF has improved its engagement with and protection of civil society. UN counterterrorism bodies could learn from FATF's approach.

Helping countries bolster regulatory systems for national security could also build a more sound international financial system overall.

Since 2001, the international community has spent enormous intellectual and political capital debating and negotiating the definition of violent extremism to design effective strategies…