Follow-up report to Bangladesh's assessment of anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing measures

Publication details

Language

English

Country

Bangladesh

Topic

Mutual Evaluations

The Mutual Evaluation Report of Bangladesh was adopted in 2016.

This follow-up report analyses the progress of Bangladesh in addressing the technical compliance deficiencies identified in its MER.

Overall, Bangladesh has made progress in addressing the technical compliance deficiencies identified in its MER and ratings have been upgraded on 5 Recommendations:

R9, R16, R18, R26, R34

Bangladesh has been re-rated to compliant with R.16 and R.18 and largely compliant with R.9, R.26 and R.34.

Bangladesh will remain on enhanced follow-up, and will continue to report back to the APG on progress to strengthen its implementation of AML/CFT measures.

APG Follow-Up Report Bangladesh - 2019

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Earlier reports

20 Sep 2018

Second follow-up report to Bangladesh's assessment of anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing measures This follow-up report analyses the progress of Bangladesh in addressing the technical compliance deficiencies identified in its MER.
22 Nov 2016

Bangladesh' measures to combat money laundering and terrorist financing This APG report provides a summary of the anti-money laundering (AML) / counter-terrorist financing (CFT) measures in place in Bangladesh as at the date of the on-site visit (22 October 2015). The report analyses how effective Bangladesh' AML/CFT system is and provides recommendations on how the system could be strengthened. The findings of this assessment have also been reviewed and endorsed by the FATF.

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