A dated note of what moved in the EU anti-money laundering framework and what was added to these pages, with a link to where the detail sits. The pages themselves always show the current position.
Week of 2 November 2026
Developments
29 OctoberPayment services package. The Council adopted its first-reading positions on the Payment Services Regulation and PSD3. Parliament’s Legislative Observatory forecasts the second-reading plenary for 14 December 2026. The ECON Chair has undertaken to recommend approval without amendments.Tracker item 13 · Timeline
30 OctoberFATF plenary. Bulgaria, Côte d’Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Monaco came off the grey list and none went on, leaving eighteen. All but Bulgaria, a Member State, remain on the EU high-risk list, so the EU duty still applies to them. The three jurisdictions subject to a call for action are unchanged. The FATF moved the date by which it will consider countermeasures for Myanmar from October 2026 to February 2027. It asked Iran, for the first time, to change its primary legislation to remove exceptions to its terrorist financing offence. Iran’s action plan now asks for criminalisation in line with the FATF Standards, rather than naming the exemption for designated groups. The plenary also launched a targeted review of virtual asset standards, with results due in June and October 2027.FATF lists · Timeline
3 NovemberAML/CFT database standards. AMLA’s consultation on the draft standards for the central database closed with a public hearing. Submission to the Commission is next, with no date announced.Tracker item 29 · Timeline
3 NovemberEU anti-fraud framework. Parliament’s budgetary control committee endorsed its report on reforming cooperation between the EPPO and OLAF, a single entry point for fraud reports and the recovery of EU funds. It goes to plenary next; the Commission’s communication on the anti-fraud architecture is expected before the end of 2026.Tracker item 10 · Timeline
4 NovemberCommission work programme 2027. No new anti-money laundering initiative. It announces a revision of the OLAF and EPPO Regulations and the PIF Directive, lists the Financial Data Access proposal for withdrawal, and leaves the migrant smuggling Directive pending without priority.Tracker item 10 · Item 13 · Item 14
5 NovemberEU restrictive measures. The Commission held the tenth High-Level Group on Union Restrictive Measures; crypto-assets as a circumvention route were on the agenda, some months before AMLA’s guidelines on targeted financial sanctions are due, in the second quarter of 2027.Tracker item 54 · Timeline
Dates after this week
10 NovemberArticle 13(6) of the sixth Directive began to apply. From this date, the entities in charge of central beneficial ownership registers must verify an applicant’s legitimate interest and respond within 12 working days.Timeline
13 NovemberExpressions of interest in AMLA and the EDPB’s roundtable for technology providers on information-sharing partnerships closed at 23:59 CET.Timeline
23 NovemberTransposition deadline for the asset recovery and confiscation Directive.Timeline
30 NovemberDate set for the AMLA and EDPB technology providers roundtable. It is also the date AMLA gave for sending its reporting-format feedback to the Commission.Timeline
New on these pages
6 NovemberSelection for direct supervision. What AMLA’s eligibility and calibration webinars add: the 2027 process draws on entities identified in 2026, the risk assessment runs in July 2027, selected entities are notified in writing, probably in the fourth quarter of 2027, and the first list is capped at forty by Article 106(2) AMLAR.Tracker item 11
6 NovemberAMLA’s first conference has its own page: the addresses, the three panels and what a firm can take from them.Conference page
6 NovemberThe inherited rulebook: eleven EBA and Commission instruments that apply today, each against the AMLA text intended to replace it.Inherited rulebook
6 NovemberTwo new clocks in the handbook: holding a reported transaction (Article 71 AMLR) and how long a financial intelligence unit can suspend a transaction or the use of an account (Article 24(1) and (2) of the sixth Directive).Implementation handbook
7 NovemberTwo new explainers: Parliament resolutions and opinions, which are not law, and when these rules reach firms outside the EU.Parliament resolutions · Outside the EU