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Rabdan Academy in collaboration with MENA FCCG and ADGM Academy Research Centre Release Research Paper: A Risk Scoring Model for Managing Money Laundering Transactions

David Lewis announced as Financial Crime Fighter of the Year 2021

Xolisile Khanyile announced as Financial Crime Fighter of the Year 2022

Cybercrime: The UN secretary-general was tasked in 2019 with collecting views of Member States on the challenges that they faced in countering the use of

The FATF subgroup provided the results of work done by financial crime experts to FATF making 20 recommendations on how to improve the effectiveness of the FATF Mutual Evaluation (ME) process.

The GCFFC’s Digital Assets Task Force is announced

A new working group within the GCFFC is announced- Experts on Technology

The Global Coalition published the Effectiveness Expert Working Group Position Paper. This paper is informed by discussions of the Global Coalition to Fight Financial Crime, its Effectiveness Steering Committee (ESC) and its four sectoral subgroups

A survey of both AML and fraud prevention private-private information-sharing platforms explores 15 different initiatives across the United States, the United Kingdom, Singapore, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Estonia and Australia.

Coalition Member The Sentry shared their latest briefing on “Constructing Corruption Identifying the Enablers Helping Build Violent Kleptocracies”.

MENA FCCG members gathered in Sharm Al-Sheik on September 1 – 2, 2022

The Basel Institute on Governance launched the annual publication of the AML Index 2022.

RUSI states that fresh approach to countering illicit financial flows is needed to counter new and emerging threats.

The MENA Chapter of the GCFFC and MENA FCCG launched their jointly developed bilingual Reference Guide for practitioners to assist in improving awareness of trade-based financial crime risks

The Integrity and Compliance Taskforce has published a report containing several policy recommendations on integrity and compliance.

In response to the FATF consultation on Recommendations 24 and 25, our member Open Ownership has led a group to respond to the ask from FATF.

Xolisile Khanyile is announced as the GCFFC Financial Crime Fighter of the year for 2022

The GCFFC announces it’s newest regional chapter- the Asia Pacific region

The GCFFC has a new Regional Chapter in Sub-Saharan Africa, lead by Xolisile Khanyile

The GCFFC has announced Ilze Znotina as the new chair of the European Chapter

Recognizing the complexities associated with cultivating a culture of ethics in practice, MENA FCCG in collaboration with its Europe Chapter and Themis (Europe Chapter’s Strategic Alliance) developed a Culture Assessment Guidelines.

On 23rd October 2023, the GCFFC convened for an in-person meeting, held at the INTERPOL headquarters in Lyon, France.

Mr. John Scanlon is announced as the Financial Crime Fighter of the Year for 2023.

In its latest endeavours to enhance financial crime literacy across the region and beyond, the MENA FCCG in collaboration with United for Wildlife has issued a Guide on Illegal Wildlife Trade (IWT).

On 26 January 2024, Chair Ilze Znotina hosted the GCFFC Europe Chapter meeting in Brussels.

On 11th March, 2024, Interpol published the ‘Financial Fraud assessment a global threat boosted by technology‘ as part of the first Global Fraud Summit, hosted

The Global Coalition to Fight Financial Crime established a Technology and Innovation Experts Working Group in 2022, inviting leading experts and practitioners to consider amongst

The Global Coalition to Fight Financial Crime is very saddened to have been informed of the news that Gretta Fenner.

Since its inception, the GCFFC has advocated for increased collaboration and information sharing as a key tenet in improving the effectiveness in fighting financial crime.

Despite the most recent ILO update last month which shows increasing illicit profits from Modern Slavery/Human Trafficking of US$86 billion over a decade to US$236 billion, the GCFFC

Whilst all countries are seeing an increasing level of scams, richer countries, for example, G7, EU & OECD member countries are reporting the most in

The value of beneficial ownership information fro fighting financial crime has been widely recognised by international standard setting bodies, FATF, OECD, IMF, The World Bank

GCFFC Experts have identified 10 key enablers for success in terms of effectiveness supported by 40 key takeaways that aim to help exsisting and future

The GCFFC Data Privacy Experts Working Group have produced this paper which sets the scene and provides preliminary recommendations to enable stakeholders to work towards

Welcome to the 2024 Fighting Financial crime Annual Summit, organised by the GCFFC and partners. We invite you and other leading fighting financial crime experts

A new Data Protection Experts Working Group commissioned by the GCFFC have today published a Paper “Fighting Financial Crime & Protecting Data Privacy Through Responsible

Robust governance frameworks and reliable institutions create an environment of certainty and resilience, enabling societies and businesses to prosper. Conversely, corrupt practices pose significant risks

The GCFFC have submitted a response to the FATF consultation on proposed revisions to R.1/INR.1/INR.10/INR.15 which in particular focusses on the Risk Based Approach.

As part of its latest outreach initiatives, MENA FCCG is collaborating with Crime Stoppers International as a new alliance to develop awareness videos to combat

Effective supervision is not an exact science & cannot be strictly defined, or considered as something that can be taken “off the shelf” and is expected to work and operate effectively, repeatedly and without many years & cycles of operation.

The Global Coalition to Fight Financial Crime is delighted to announce that Gretta Fenner, a tireless anti corruption campaigner and formerly Managing Director of the