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title: FATF Forum Focuses on Strengthening the Implementation of Risk‑Based Approach
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# [FATF Forum Focuses on Strengthening the Implementation of Risk‑Based Approach](https://www.plenitudeconsulting.com/news-insights/fatf-forum-focuses-on-strengthening-the-implementation-of-risk-based-approach)

 Written by [Insight & Partnership Team](https://www.plenitudeconsulting.com/news-insights/author/insight-partnership-team) | Mar 6, 2026 3:58:09 PM

 

Over 100 global financial crime professionals attended, including financial supervisors, financial intelligence units (FIUs), law enforcement agencies (LEAs), and policymakers.

Key insights include:

➡️ **Effectiveness Over Formal Compliance:** While the focus on the risk-based approach is working, greater emphasis is needed on the effectiveness in reducing money laundering and terrorist financing (ML/TF) harms;

➡️ **Better Public–Private Alignment:** Authorities and the private sector should align more closely on risk-based resource allocation to better target high-risk activity and reduce friction for legitimate customers;

➡️ **Trust as a Foundation:** Effective risk-based supervision depends on trust and constructive engagement between supervisors and firms;

➡️ **Moving Beyond Zero-Failure:** Participants highlighted the need to shift away from a “zero-failure” culture and move towards prioritising higher-risk threats and reducing low-value compliance activity; and

➡️ **Impact-Focused Supervision:** Supervisory attention should concentrate on measures that deliver the greatest impact in preventing and detecting financial crime.

✅ Firms should ensure AML frameworks are risk-led, and demonstrably effective and aligned with supervisory expectations and the best practice outlined by the FATF.

 

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