Methods and Trends

Comprehensive Update on Terrorist Financing Risks

8 Jul 2025

The report, Comprehensive Update on Terrorist Financing Risks, reveals terrorists’ persistent ability to exploit the international financial system to support their activities and carry out attacks. With the TF methods varying depending on several factors and contexts, the report highlights terrorists’ adaptability, underscoring the need for risk-based counter-terrorist financing measures.

Complex Proliferation Financing and Sanctions Evasion Schemes

This FATF report reveals that significant vulnerabilities remain across the global financial system in countering the financing of weapons of mass destruction. The report provides a detailed analysis of the evolving methods and techniques used to evade PF-related sanctions, including those imposed under Recommendation 7 of the FATF Standards, as well as other national and supranational regimes beyond the FATF Standards.

Detecting, Disrupting and Investigating Online Child Sexual Exploitation

Drawing on case studies and expertise from across the FATF Global Network, this landmark report provides an updated and more precise understanding of the financial flows behind online child sexual exploitation and abuse, to enhance both the private and public sectors’ ability to detect, disrupt and investigate online child sexual exploitation.

Publications about methods and trends in money laundering, terrorist financing and the financing of proliferation