The United Arab Emirates' progress in strengthening measures to tackle money laundering and terrorist financing

This follow-up report sets out the progress that the United Arab Emirates, member of FATF-Style Regional Body MENAFATF, has made in improving its level of compliance with the FATF standards, since their 2020 mutual evaluation.  

• Recommendation 1 is re-rated from Partially compliant to Largely compliant  
• Recommendation 19 is re-rated from Partially compliant to Compliant
• Recommendation 29 is re-rated from Partially compliant to Compliant

The United Arab Emirates is now “compliant” with 15 of the forty FATF Recommendations, “largely compliant” with 24 Recommendations and “partially compliant” with one Recommendation. The country has no “non-compliant” ratings.

The country remains in the Enhanced Follow-Up process and will report back to MENAFATF.