Safeguarding financial system: Ministers to renew FATF Mandate By TII News Service
Apr 18, 2012 , Paris
MINISTERS from
Financial Action Task Force (FATF) member countries will meet in Washington
DC on Friday to extend the FATF mandate for another 8 years, continuing
to safeguard the integrity of the international financial system.
The FATF Ministerial Meeting will take place in the margins of the 2012 IMF /
World Bank Spring Meetings. It follows on the recent publication of the revised
FATF 40 Recommendations, the international standard for combating money laundering
and the financing of terrorism and weapons of mass destruction.
The renewed mandate will allow the FATF – through its global network of 187 partner
countries – to ensure that all are doing their part to make the international
financial system off-limits to criminals, terrorists and others threats to financial
stability.