The EU Anti-Money Laundering Regulation (AMLR), officially Regulation (EU) 2024/1624 of the European Parliament and of the Council, is the first directly applicable EU rulebook for anti- Money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AM/CFT). Adopted on 31 May 2024, it replaces fragmented national rules with a single, uniform set of obligations applicable across all 27 EU Member States from 10 July 2027.
Article 25 Identification of the purpose and intended nature of a business relationship or occasional transaction
Article 26 Ongoing monitoring of the business relationship and monitoring of transactions performed by customers
Article 28 Regulatory technical standards on the information necessary for the performance of customer due diligence
Article 29 Identification of third countries with significant strategic deficiencies in their national AML/CFT regimes
Article 30 Identification of third countries with compliance weaknesses in their national AML/CFT regimes
Article 31 Identification of third countries posing a specific and serious threat to the Union’s financial system
Article 35 Countermeasures to mitigate money laundering and terrorist financing threats from outside the Union
Article 37 Specific enhanced due diligence measures for cross-border correspondent relationships for crypto-asset service providers