How new rules on financial crime will impact the EU AML regime
/On 20 July 2021, the EU’s new anti-money laundering (AML) package was released, comprising four legislative proposals: three regulations, and a directive. These ambitious proposals, which implement the European commission’s May 2020 Action Plan, constitute the biggest ever overhaul to the EU’s AML CFT regime. The proposal uplifts the existing regime through the introduction of new rules, updating and refining existing requirements and providing a new approach to supervision. With EU member states currently pursuing their own approaches to supervision and having different expectations with respect to directive implementation and control execution, this will present a big change for financial institutions (FIs).
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