Barbados' progress in strengthening measures to tackle money laundering and terrorist financing

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English

Country

Barbados

Topic

Mutual Evaluations

Barbados: 2nd Enhanced Follow Up Report with Technical Compliance Re-Ratings, Barbados: 2nd Enhanced Follow Up Report with Technical Complianc

CFATF Follow-Up Report of Barbados - 2021

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Overall, Barbados has made good progress in addressing the technical compliance deficiencies identified in its MER.

This follow-up report looks at the actions Barbados has undertaken to address the weaknesses identified in the report and
to meet the requirements of FATF Recommendations that have changed since their 2018 mutual evaluation.

To reflect the actions they have taken, Barbados' technical compliance has been re-rated on the following 13 Recommendations:

Recommenation 4 is re-rated as Compliant
Recommenation 20 is re-rated as Compliant

Recommenation 1 is re-rated as Largely Compliant
Recommenation 7 is re-rated as Largely Compliant
Recommenation 19 is re-rated as Largely Compliant
Recommenation 29 is re-rated as Largely Compliant
Recommenation 32 is re-rated as Largely Compliant
Recommenation 33 is re-rated as Largely Compliant
Recommenation 34 is re-rated as Largely Compliant
Recommenation 38 is re-rated as Largely Compliant

Recommenation 8 is re-rated as Partially Compliant

Recommenations 15 and 21 have been rated down to Partially Compliant

According to the enhanced follow-up process, Barbados will continue to report back to the CFATF on its progress to strengthen its implementation of AML/CFT measures.

CFATF Mutual Evaluation of Barbados - 2018

Technical Compliance

Ratings which reflect the extent to which a country has implemented the technical requirements of the FATF Recommendations.

C = compliant | LC = largely compliant | PC = partially compliant | NC = non-compliant | NA = not applicable

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