How we track FATF.

FATF Watch mirrors three public surfaces on fatf-gafi.org: the black list (Call for Action), the grey list (Increased Monitoring), and the per-country profile pages carrying the most recent Mutual Evaluation ratings. We do not transform the underlying data — we surface it in a sortable, filterable form alongside the rest of our editorial inventory.

Sources

• FATF — High-Risk Jurisdictions subject to a Call for Action
• FATF — Jurisdictions under Increased Monitoring
• FATF — Mutual Evaluation assessment ratings table
• Per-country profile pages under /en/countries.html on fatf-gafi.org for the action-plan text and individual Recommendation / Immediate Outcome ratings.

Update cadence

FATF holds three plenaries per year (February, June, October). List changes are announced in the public outcome statement immediately after each plenary. We poll the three source pages once per day; the scraper exits early if the page ETag is unchanged.

What we extract

• List status. Country added / removed / unchanged on the black list and grey list, with the plenary date.
• Action plan. The "Strategic deficiencies" and "Outstanding action plan items" paragraphs from each grey-list country statement.
• 40 Recommendations + 11 Immediate Outcomes. Rating per Recommendation (C / LC / PC / NC / NA) and per Immediate Outcome (HE / SE / ME / LE) from the country's most recent published Mutual Evaluation Report or follow-up.
• MER cycle and date. Either 4th-round or 5th-round, and the publication date of the report.

Change detection

The scraper stores the canonical list of black-list and grey-list slugs. On each run it diffs against the previous state. Any add, remove, or restatement triggers:

1. A row in the fatf_status_changes table.
2. A news item in the main feed with regulator = fatf-gafi, type guidance, severity 4 (or 5 for black-list changes). The item goes through the standard hold queue.
3. Instant alerts to every subscriber with a country_fatf subscription for the affected country.

Regional bodies

FATF assesses 39 members directly. Another ~165 jurisdictions are assessed by one of the 9 FATF-style regional bodies — MENAFATF, MONEYVAL, APG, GAFILAT, ESAAMLG, GIABA, EAG, GABAC, CFATF. Each country's profile names the responsible body. We attribute ratings to the body that issued them.

What FATF Watch is not

• Not a substitute for an authorised AML/CFT consultancy or for the FATF's own guidance.
• Not a sanctions list. Sanctions are enforced by OFAC, OFSI, the EU, and national authorities — separately from FATF.
• Not a prediction of where a country will land at the next plenary. We report what FATF has said.

Cross-section integration

Bank profiles show the FATF badge for their home jurisdiction (grey / black / cleared). The Bank Pulse leaderboard adds a FATF column. The score itself is intentionally not adjusted by FATF status — Bank Pulse remains purely a function of bank-level fundamentals so the two signals stay independent.

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