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Every jurisdiction is assessed on technical compliance and effectiveness, on a roughly ten-year cycle. Readiness is built years ahead.

Standards updates and mutual-evaluation reports are adopted at plenary — decisions that reach every supervised institution.

The regional body applying the FATF standards across the Middle East and North Africa — the calendar that governs assessment timing for institutions in the region.

Second plenary of the FATF year — outcomes shape supervisory priorities for the year ahead.

The closing plenary of the cycle — typically where the year’s mutual-evaluation reports are finalised.

Harmonised EU-wide rules on due diligence, beneficial ownership and internal controls — the same date AMLD6 must be transposed.

The new EU AML Authority takes on direct supervision of selected high-risk cross-border financial institutions; the selection process runs through the preceding year.

Member states must give financial intelligence units and competent authorities access to real-estate ownership information — a known laundering channel comes under registry.

Regulation (EU) 2016/679 — the framework against which every data-protection regime we advise on is measured, and the reference model for cross-border transfer rules.