AMLA will directly supervise forty of EU’s most complex and risky financial institutions or groups from 2028 onwards

The Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AMLA) will directly supervise forty high-risk financial institutions in the EU from 2028, according to a press release published on Thursday 18 December.

To select the entities that the AMLA will directly supervise, supervisors across the EU will, for the first time, use a common methodology to assess money laundering and terrorist financing risks. The draft regulatory technical standards (RTS) on risk assessment specify the data points and criteria that national supervisors will use to assess the entities they supervise.

“These instruments mark a significant step toward supervisory convergence,” said Bruna Szego, President of the AMLA. “They reflect the close and productive cooperation with national authorities, whose commitment is essential to making the new anti‑money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism framework effective.”

AMLA has launched a public consultation on the RTS project. Stakeholders are invited to submit their comments by Tuesday 27 January.

See the consultation: https://aeur.eu/f/k45 (Original version in French by Anne Damiani)