High quality AML/CFT statistics has several important benefits, by providing key input for national risk assessments and allowing jurisdictions to review and demonstrate the effectiveness of their AML/CFT system, including in the context of FATF mutual evaluations.
High quality AML/CFT statistics also have a number of other important benefits beyond mutual evaluations by, for instance, providing key input for enhancing management tools.
Taking into account that statistics models depend on each country’s context, this guidance sets out optional examples of useful data that jurisdictions may collect and includes options for the collection, analysis and presentation of AML/CFT statistics.
This Guidance is non-binding and takes into account that most countries have well-established protocols for collecting and presenting statistics that are adapted to their specific context. Accordingly, it is meant to provide a non-exhaustive list of options for using statistics as a complement to qualitative data in the assessment of AML/CFT systems, on the understanding that this information may also serve other purposes. The main objectives of the Guidance are to:
- Set out options for collecting, maintaining and presenting AML/CFT-related statistics.
- Provide advice on how to analyse AML/CFT-related statistics.
- Give concrete examples of statistics that may be useful to assess the effectiveness of AML/CFT systems under the Methodology.