Info-paedia : Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

Info-paedia : Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

Why in News?

  • Annual FATF plenary is being held in Paris in which Pakistan is expected to be taken off from FATF grey list.

About

  • An inter-governmental body, established in 1989 during the G7 Summit in Paris
  • Secretariat is located at the OECD headquarters in Paris.
  • 39 member jurisdictions (also few associates & observers); India member since 2010.
  • FATF Plenary is the supreme decision making body of the FATF , meets 3 times a year.

Mandate

  • To set FATF Recommendations or standards and promote effective implementation of legal, regulatory and operational measures for
  • Combating money laundering.
  • Terrorist financing.
  • Threats to the integrity of the international financial system.

FATF Listing

  • Grey List:
    • Safe haven countries for supporting terror funding and money laundering are put into. If not take corrective measures will be blacklisted, eg. The UAE, Morocco, Pakistan etc.
  • Black List:
    • Non-Cooperative Countries or Territories (NCCTs) are put in the blacklist.
    • These countries support terror funding and money laundering activities.
    • Iran and North Korea have been placed under the Black list.