FATF Attends UNODC-INTERPOL Global Fraud Summit

Detected March 20th, 2026

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The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) announced its participation in the UNODC-INTERPOL Global Fraud Summit. The summit focused on combating financial crime and illicit financial flows, bringing together international law enforcement and financial intelligence units.

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The FATF has published a notice detailing its attendance at the UNODC-INTERPOL Global Fraud Summit. This event served as a platform for international collaboration among law enforcement agencies and financial intelligence units to address the growing challenges posed by financial crime and illicit financial flows.

This notice is informational and does not impose new obligations or deadlines on regulated entities. It highlights FATF's engagement in global efforts to combat financial crime, reinforcing the importance of its ongoing work in setting international standards for anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing.

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Vienna, 18 March 2026 – This week, the Financial Action Task Force participated in the Global Fraud Summit hosted by INTERPOL and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) to discuss the rapidly evolving threat of fraud, and ways forward in tackling it.

FATF President Elisa de Anda Madrazo said: “We see fraud growing in scale, sophistication, and impact. It is no longer a series of isolated criminal acts. It has evolved into a global, organised, technologically enabled criminal economy—one that exploits instant payments, manipulates social engineering at industrial scale, and leverages cross‑border digital platforms to target victims everywhere.”

Mobilising the FATF Toolkit in the Fight Against Fraud

To encourage concrete action to respond to these growing threats, the FATF hosted a side event Stopping Fraud with the FATF Anti-Money Laundering Toolkit, moderated by FATF Vice President, Giles Thomson.

The session brought together leading experts from around the world: Nadine Schwarz (Deputy Division Chief at IMF), Daniel Thelesklaf (Head of FIU Germany and Vice Chair of the Egmont Group), Suliman Aljabrin (Executive Secretary of MENAFATF), Mitsutoshi Kajikawa (Deputy Vice Minister of Finance for International Affairs in Japan and APG Co-chair), and Nicholas Court (Assistant Director, Financial Crime and Anti-Corruption at INTERPOL).

The panel explored how anti-money laundering (AML) measures — from rapid transaction freezing and beneficial ownership transparency to virtual asset tracing and public-private information sharing — are being deployed in practice to disrupt fraud.

Download our explainer to learn more about how the FATF Standards equip countries with the tools they need to fight fraud.

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