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On June 19, 2026, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) published an updated list of jurisdictions under increased monitoring, commonly referred to as the "grey list." The list identifies 20 jurisdictions actively working with the FATF and FATF-style regional bodies (FSRBs) to address strategic deficiencies in their regimes to counter money laundering, terrorist financing, and proliferation financing. The jurisdictions under increased monitoring are Angola, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Haiti, Iraq, Kenya, Kuwait, Lao PDR, Lebanon, Monaco, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, South Sudan, Syria, Venezuela, Vietnam, Virgin Islands (UK), and Yemen. The FATF notes that jurisdictions placed under increased monitoring have committed to resolving identified strategic deficiencies within agreed timeframes and remain subject to ongoing monitoring. The FATF emphasises that placement on the increased monitoring list does not constitute a call for enhanced due diligence measures. Instead, the FATF encourages its members and all jurisdictions to apply a risk-based approach when considering actions based on the information presented. The FATF specifically calls on jurisdictions to ensure that flows of funds for humanitarian assistance, legitimate non-profit organisation activity, and remittances are neither disrupted nor discouraged, and to consider international obligations under United Nations Security Council Resolution 2761 (2024) regarding humanitarian exemptions to asset freeze measures. The FATF also announced that Algeria and Namibia have been removed from the increased monitoring list following significant progress in strengthening their anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing regimes.