FATF Methods, Trends and Typologies

FATF’s maintained analytical report family publishes scoped money-laundering, terrorist-financing, proliferation-financing, and sanctions-evasion typologies and red-flag/risk indicators, together with report dates, methodology, scope, and express indicator limitations. The reports state that lists are non-exhaustive and a single indicator does not itself warrant suspicion.

FATF typology reports provide useful supplemental recommendations and good practices for detection, screening, monitoring or examination, and SAR/STR reporting, pinned to each report’s scope, date, methodology, and limitations. These analytical recommendations are not the FATF Standards, domestic law, or a complete control framework.