The Financial Action Task Force (FATF or GAFI by its English acronym) has updated the list of high-risk jurisdictions for presenting serious deficiencies in systems for the prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing.
Following this update, and compared to the previous list published in October 2025, the FATF has included two countries, Kuwait and Papua New Guinea, which must improve their prevention systems, and has not removed any from the previous list. “The Financial Action Task Force periodically updates this list to encourage the countries or jurisdictions included to apply additional measures to protect the international financial system from risks related to money laundering and terrorist financing,” recall the experts at finReg360.
Therefore, the list, updated as of February 2026, of countries and territories at high risk for presenting strategic deficiencies in this matter is as follows:
- Angola
- Algeria
- Bolivia
- Bulgaria
- Burma / Myanmar
- Cameroon
- North Korea
- Ivory Coast
- Haiti
- British Virgin Islands
- Iran
- Kenya
- Kuwait
- Laos
- Lebanon
- Monaco
- Namibia
- Nepal
- Papua New Guinea
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Syria
- South Sudan
- Venezuela
- Vietnam
- Yemen
