Changeflow GovPing Banking & Finance Poland Strengthens Measures Against Money Laund...
Priority review Guidance Added Final

Poland Strengthens Measures Against Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing

Favicon for www.fatf-gafi.org FATF Publications
Detected March 24th, 2026
Email

Summary

The FATF has published a follow-up report on Poland's measures against money laundering and terrorist financing. The report indicates that Poland has strengthened its measures, aligning with international standards.

What changed

This document is a follow-up report from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) assessing Poland's progress in implementing measures against money laundering and terrorist financing. The report indicates that Poland has made significant improvements and has strengthened its regime, moving towards better compliance with FATF recommendations. The specific details of the strengthened measures and their effectiveness are outlined within the full report.

Compliance officers should review the full FATF report to understand the specific enhancements made by Poland. While this is a FATF publication and not a direct regulatory mandate for entities outside of Poland, it serves as an important indicator of international AML/CFT standards and best practices. Entities operating in or with Poland should be aware of these strengthened measures and ensure their own compliance programs are robust and aligned with evolving international expectations.

What to do next

  1. Review the FATF follow-up report on Poland's AML/CFT measures.
  2. Assess alignment of internal policies with updated international standards.
  3. Ensure robust AML/CFT controls are in place for operations involving Poland.

Source document (simplified)

The FATF
- What we do
- Who we are
- FATF Presidency
- Mandate of the FATF
- FATF Policy on Observers

Countries
Find out about the world, a region, or a country

FATF Global Network

Publications
Browse our publications, including reports, guidance and statements

Key documents

Topics
Explore the FATF's areas of work:

Calendars
- Events
- Assessments

Toggle menu

Poland's progress in strengthening measures to tackle money laundering and terrorist financing

Publication details

Language

English

Country

Poland

Topic

Mutual Evaluations

Poland has made progress to address the technical compliance deficiencies identified in the MER and subsequent FURs. As a result of this progress, Poland has been re-rated on R.8. The country asked for R.15, which is also analysed but no re-rating has been provided.

  • Recommendation 8 is re-rated from Partially Compliant to Largely Compliant Poland has 3 recommendations rated Compliant, 25 rated Largely Compliant and 12 rated Partially Compliant.

Poland 3rd Follow-Up Report - Moneyval 2025

Filename Poland-FUR-2025.pdf Size 1 MB Format application/pdf Download the report

Earlier reports

  • 23 Dec 2024

Poland's progress in strengthening measures to tackle money laundering and terrorist financing Poland has made progress in its technical compliance with the FATF Recommendations since its MER and 1st enhanced FUR were adopted. The country has been re-rated on two Recommendations.
- 3 May 2024

Poland's progress in strengthening measures to tackle money laundering and terrorist financing Poland has improved its measures for tackling money laundering and terrorist financing. This report focuses on Poland’s progress on improving the level of compliance with the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Recommendations 15 (New technologies) and 34 (Guidance and feedback).
- 4 Feb 2022

Poland's measures to combat money laundering and terrorist financing This report provides a summary of the Anti-Money Laundering/Countering Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) measures in place in Poland as at the date of the on-site visit from 10 to 21 May 2021. It analyses the level of compliance with the FATF 40 Recommendations and the level of effectiveness of Poland's AML/CFT system and provides recommendations on how the system could be strengthened
- 22 Nov 2007

Mutual Evaluation of Poland Poland is a member of MONEYVAL, the assessment of the implementation of anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CFT measures in Poland was conducted by MONEYVAL.

Related materials

MONEYVAL

The FATF Recommendations

The FATF Recommendations are the basis on which all countries should meet the shared objective of tackling money laundering, terrorist financing and the financing of proliferation. The FATF calls upon all countries to effectively implement these measures in their national systems. Read more

Mutual Evaluations

The FATF conducts peer reviews of each member on an ongoing basis to assess levels of implementation of the FATF Recommendations, providing an in-depth description and analysis of each country’s system for preventing criminal abuse of the financial system Read more Consolidated assessment ratings

The 2022 and 2013 Methodologies for Assessing Technical Compliance with the FATF Recommendations and the Effectiveness of AML/CFT/CPF Systems

These documents are guides intended for use by assessors who are tasked with conducting a mutual evaluation. They provide a structured framework of analysis that ensures a level of consistency and high quality of the mutual evaluation reports produced. Latest update: December 2025 Read more

Discover
Need help?
More

Twitter Facebook Instagram Linkedin Contact us Terms & conditions | Privacy Policy | Sitemap

© fatf-gafi 2024. All rights reserved

Source

Analysis generated by AI. Source diff and links are from the original.

Classification

Agency
FATF
Instrument
Guidance
Legal weight
Non-binding
Stage
Final
Change scope
Substantive

Who this affects

Applies to
Financial advisers Fund managers Insurers
Industry sector
5221 Commercial Banking 5231 Securities & Investments 5239 Asset Management
Activity scope
AML Reporting Terrorist Financing Prevention
Geographic scope
PL PL

Taxonomy

Primary area
Anti-Money Laundering
Operational domain
Compliance
Compliance frameworks
BSA/AML
Topics
Terrorist Financing International Standards

Get Banking & Finance alerts

Weekly digest. AI-summarized, no noise.

Free. Unsubscribe anytime.

Get alerts for this source

We'll email you when FATF Publications publishes new changes.

Free. Unsubscribe anytime.