Discover the latest publications produced by the team of experts of the EU Global Facility on AML/CFT.
Explores how beneficial ownership transparency supports FATF requirements on virtual assets, from VASP licensing and customer due diligence to the Travel Rule, with a look at DAOs, complex structures, the Binance case and the OECD’s Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework.
September 2026
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Produced with the EU P2P programme and the Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering after a regional conference in Bangkok, this handbook maps proliferation financing threats and vulnerabilities in Southeast Asia and offers step-by-step guidance on national risk assessments.
June 2026
This updated methodology gives countries a six-pillar framework on virtual assets: choosing between prohibition and regulation, risk assessment, VASP supervision, investigation and tracing, seizure and confiscation, and countering proliferation financing and sanctions evasion.
February 2026
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Edición en español de la metodología 2026 de la EU Global Facility sobre activos virtuales, que propone un marco de seis pilares: decisión entre prohibir o regular, evaluación de riesgos, supervisión de PSAV, investigación y rastreo, incautación y decomiso, y financiamiento de la proliferación.
February 2026
Developed with GAFILAT, this handbook helps national authorities collect, analyse and present reliable AML/CFT statistics ahead of the FATF’s fifth round of mutual evaluations, with common pitfalls, good practices and model tables for each Immediate Outcome.
October 2025
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Prepared by GAFILAT with EU Global Facility support, this report draws on fourth-round mutual evaluations to set regional and national effectiveness priorities, from risk understanding and beneficial ownership to supervision and asset recovery, ahead of the fifth round.
September 2025
Manual elaborado con el GAFILAT para ayudar a las autoridades nacionales a recopilar, analizar, interpretar y presentar estadísticas ALA/CFT fiables de cara a la 5ª Ronda de Evaluaciones Mutuas, con errores frecuentes, buenas prácticas y modelos de tablas por Resultado Inmediato
September 2025
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This briefing note captures an international roundtable co-organised with CFATF and GAFILAT, which drew over 950 registrants from 104 countries, covering new standards on trusts, regional experiences, practitioner perspectives and trust registration in Namibia, Czechia, Ecuador and Australia.
July 2025
This briefing note from a webinar with GAFILAT and the Inter-American Development Bank sets out options for verifying beneficial ownership information, drawing on the experiences of Belgium, Austria and Slovakia and real-time red-flagging of UK company incorporations.
September 2024
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Part of the Beneficial Ownership Discussion Series, this paper explains how opaque vessel ownership enables illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, sets out the challenges facing authorities and shows how beneficial ownership transparency can help hold those responsible to account.
June 2024
An overview of the EU Global Facility: its mandate, its results and its five areas of technical assistance, from regulation and FIUs, beneficial ownership and law enforcement to justice, civil society and the media, with details on how to request support.
June 2024
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This strategy paper sets out the EU Global Facility’s modular approach to helping jurisdictions design and implement beneficial ownership disclosure regimes, from governance and political support to four implementation phases, drawing on its work with more than 26 jurisdictions.
May 2024
This conference report shows how beneficial ownership data can serve tax, anti-corruption and AML/CFT purposes alike, covering verification, cooperation between tax authorities, FIUs and registries, automatic exchange of information and the use of artificial intelligence.
May 2024
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Summary of a two-day conference in Bonn co-organised with GIZ and the Global NPO Coalition on FATF, exploring how Recommendation 8 is implemented, its unintended consequences for civil society, de-risking by banks and the case for a truly risk-based approach.
November 2023
Developed with the Siracusa International Institute, this constitutional review examines mechanisms that ease proof of the illicit origin of assets, such as presumptions, illicit enrichment and non-conviction-based confiscation, and how courts have reconciled them with fundamental rights.
October 2023
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This briefing note reports on a roundtable held after the European Court of Justice ruled against unconditional public access to beneficial ownership registers, bringing together public, private and civil society views on balancing transparency, privacy and data protection.
July 2023
This strategy sets out how the EU Global Facility supports countries on virtual assets in line with FATF Recommendation 15, across four pillars: assessing risks, supervising service providers, investigating and tracing, and seizing and managing crypto-assets.
April 2023
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This strategy traces how beneficial ownership standards have evolved and sets out how the EU Global Facility supports partner jurisdictions through bilateral, thematic and cross-cutting work to strengthen legal frameworks, institutional capacity and international cooperation.
March 2023
This publication explores social finance, from savings clubs and credit unions to microfinance, and argues that a genuinely risk-based approach can reconcile financial integrity with financial inclusion for institutions that sit between FATF’s financial institution and NPO categories.
February 2023
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This briefing note from a closed webinar with more than 200 participants from 42 countries sets out why complex ownership structures are created, the strategies and indicators behind them, and proposals for tackling complexity and the use of nominees.
November 2022
This paper examines the illicit economy operating inside prisons, how detained criminals keep control of their assets and links to terrorist financing, and proposes a multi-agency Custodial Financial Investigation Taskforce (C-FIT) model with supporting training.
October 2022
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Based on cases from 15 countries, this survey identifies typologies of illicit financial abuse of non-profit organisations, including community sports organisations, finds little evidence of systemic risk and calls for risk-based, proportionate regulation of the sector.
August 2022
This project is funded by the European Union.