Middle East and North Africa Financial Action Task Force (MENAFATF)

MENAFATF Logo The objectives of MENAFATF are to:

  • To adopt and implement the 40 Recommendations of the FATF against ML,
  • To adopt and implement the Special Recommendations of the FATF against TF, To implement the relevant UN treaties and agreements and United Nations Security Council Resolutions dealing with countering ML/TF,
  • To co-operate together to raise compliance with these standards and measures within the MENA Region and to work with other international organizations to raise compliance worldwide;
  • To work together to identify ML/TF issues of a regional nature, to share experiences of these problems and to develop regional solutions for dealing with them; and
  • To build effective arrangements throughout the region to combat effectively ML/TF in accordance with the particular cultural values, constitutional framework and legal systems in the member countries.

For more information, please see the MENAFATF website at www.menafatf.org.

MENAFATF Members

Algeria
Bahrain
Egypt
Islamic Republic of Mauritania
Jordan
Kuwait
Lebanon
Libya
Morocco
Oman
Qatar
Republic of Iraq
Saudi Arabia
Sudan
Syria
Tunisia
United Arab Emirates
Yemen

Observers

Arab Monetary Fund
Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering ( APG )
Co-operation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC)
Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units (Egmont Group)
Eurasian Group on combating money laundering and financing of terrorism (EAG)
FATF
France
International Monetary Fund 
Palestine
Spain
United Kingdom
United Nations (UN)
United States
World Bank
World Customs Organization (WCO)