FATF Grey List: The Jurisdictions Under Increased Monitoring After the June Plenary

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has updated its list of jurisdictions under increased monitoring, widely known as the grey list, following its June plenary in Paris. After two additions and two removals, 22 jurisdictions now sit on the list. The separate blacklist of high-risk jurisdictions subject to a call for action remains unchanged, covering Iran, North Korea and Myanmar.

Iraq and Bosnia and Herzegovina were added during the plenary, while Algeria and Namibia were removed after completing their action plans and passing on-site assessments. Both newly listed countries have committed to time-bound plans to address strategic deficiencies in their measures against money laundering, terrorist financing and proliferation financing.

The full list of monitored jurisdictions

After the June plenary, the following 22 jurisdictions are under increased monitoring:

1. Angola
2. Bolivia
3. Bosnia and Herzegovina (added June 2026)
4. Bulgaria
5. Cameroon
6. Côte d’Ivoire
7. Democratic Republic of the Congo
8. Haiti
9. Iraq (added June 2026)
10. Kenya
11. Kuwait
12. Laos
13. Lebanon
14. Monaco
15. Nepal
16. Papua New Guinea
17. South Sudan
18. Syria
19. Venezuela
20. Vietnam
21. Virgin Islands (UK)
22. Yemen

The plenary was the final one under the Mexican presidency of Elisa de Anda Madrazo, with the UK’s Giles Thomson taking over the FATF presidency from July. Alongside the list changes, members adopted the mutual evaluation reports of Canada and Türkiye, agreed on an update to Recommendation 6 to protect humanitarian assistance, and launched a consultation on guidance for strengthened cross-border payment transparency under Recommendation 16.

Grey-listing is not, in most regimes, an automatic trigger for enhanced due diligence, but it is a strong country-risk signal. Financial institutions, designated non-financial businesses, and virtual asset service providers are expected to feed the changes into their country risk models and enterprise-wide risk assessments, update screening and monitoring rules, and apply enhanced measures where the risk warrants it, rather than de-risking entire jurisdictions indiscriminately.

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