Côte d'Ivoire's progress in strengthening measures to tackle money laundering and terrorist financing

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Overall, Côte d'Ivoire has made significant progress in addressing the technical compliance gaps identified in its 2023 Mutual Evaluation.

The country has been re-rated on 9 Recommendations:

  • Recommendations 11, 18 and 20 are re-rated from Partially Compliant to Compliant 
  • Recommendations 10, 12, 16, 19, 22 and 23 are re-rated from Partially Compliant to Largely Compliant

Côte d'Ivoire currently has 18 Recommendations rated C/LC and 22 Recommendations rated PC.

The country will remain in Enhanced follow-up and will report back to GIABA in May 2025.

 

1st Enhanced Follow-Up Report - Côte d'Ivoire 2024

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Version française : Côte d'Ivoire 1st Follow-Up Report - 2024

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Technical Compliance

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

Côte d'Ivoire FUR 2024 Ratings

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

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

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