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

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GAFILAT Follow-Up Report Nicaragua 2021

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Nicaragua continues to make important progress in addressing the technical compliance deficiencies identified in its MER and FURs and has been re-rated as follows:

  • Recommendation 14 to Largely Compliant
  • Recommendation 35 to Largely Compliant
  • Recommendation 15 was re-rated as Non-Compliant

Nicaragua will continue in the enhanced follow-up process and will continue to report to GAFILAT on the progress made to strengthen its implementation of AML/CFT measures.

Technical Compliance

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

Nicaragua Mutual Evaluation 2017

R.1 - Assessing risk & applying risk-based approach
PC
R.2 - National cooperation and coordination
LC
R.3 - Money laundering offence
LC
R.4 - Confiscation and provisional measures
LC
R.5 - Terrorist financing offence
PC
R.6 - Targeted financial sanctions related to terrorism & terrorist financing
LC
R.7 - Targeted financial sanctions related to proliferation
NC
R.8 - Non-profit organisations
PC
R.9 - Financial institution secrecy laws
LC
R.10 - Customer due diligence
PC
R.11 - Record keeping
PC
R.12 - Politically exposed persons
PC
R.13 - Correspondent banking
C
R.14 - Money or value transfer services
LC
R.15 - New technologies
NC
R.16 - Wire transfers
LC
R.17 - Reliance on third parties
LC
R.18 - Internal controls and foreign branches and subsidiaries
LC
R.19 - Higher-risk countries
LC
R.20 - Reporting of suspicious transactions
PC
R.21 - Tipping-off and confidentiality
PC
R.22 - DNFBPs: Customer due diligence
NC
R.23 - DNFBPs: Other measures
NC
R.24 - Transparency and beneficial ownership of legal persons
NC
R.25 - Transparency and beneficial ownership of legal arrangements
NC
R.26 - Regulation and supervision of financial institutions
PC
R.27 - Powers of supervisors
LC
R.28 - Regulation and supervision of DNFBPs
NC
R.29 - Financial intelligence units
C
R.30 - Responsibilities of law enforcement and investigative authorities
C
R.31 - Powers of law enforcement and investigative authorities
LC
R.32 - Cash couriers
LC
R.33 - Statistics
LC
R.34 - Guidance and feedback
LC
R.35- Sanctions
LC
R.36 - International instruments
LC
R.37 - Mutual legal assistance
LC
R.38 - Mutual legal assistance: freezing and confiscation
LC
R.39 - Extradition
LC
R.40 - Other forms of international cooperation
LC

C = compliant   |   LC = largely compliant     |   PC = partially compliant   |   NC = non-compliant