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On June 15, 2026, the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) published a summary of its supervisory findings on anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing (AML/CTF) controls conducted between January 1, 2022, and December 31, 2025. The summary forms part of the AMF's 2026 supervisory priorities and its strategic Impact 2027 framework. The AMF analysed 46 controls that resulted in enforcement action, yielding 16 sanction decisions, 16 administrative settlement agreements, and 16 remediation letters requiring corrective measures. Some controls resulted in mixed enforcement outcomes. The analysis identified significant deficiencies across regulated entities, including portfolio management companies and financial investment advisors. Key findings include incomplete or inadequately tailored AML/CTF procedures; insufficiently personalised risk mappings that fail to operationally link identified risks to implemented vigilance measures; gaps in oversight of delegates, distributors, and third-party service providers involved in customer due diligence; deficiencies in collecting, maintaining, and updating client information, beneficial ownership data, and politically exposed person status; failures in implementing investment and disinvestment due diligence procedures; reporting breaches to TRACFIN (France's financial intelligence unit) or the AMF; inadequate staff training on AML/CTF obligations; and insufficient internal control formalisation or effectiveness demonstration. The AMF emphasised the critical importance of suspicious transaction reporting to TRACFIN's effectiveness. Regulated entities must identify atypical operations, conduct necessary analyses, and file appropriate suspicious activity reports when circumstances warrant. The AMF will continue supervisory and control activities using a risk-based approach and contribute to European regulatory developments, particularly regarding the progressive implementation of the Autorité Européenne de Lutte contre le Blanchiment d'Argent et le Financement du Terrorisme (AMLA), established in June 2024.