16th UFA Annual Meeting in Shanghai, China 15 - 19 July 2013
22 July 2013
The 16th UFA Annual Meeting and Annual Forum on Technical Assistance and Training was held in Shanghai, China during the week of 15 to 19 July 2013.
The purpose of UFA Annual Meetings is to discuss UFA strategic and operational issues including:
- The structure and operation of the UFA;
- Mutual evaluation procedures and the scheduling of on-site visits to UFA members;
- Implementation issues and their relevance to the FATF's International Cooperation Review Group;
- Technical assistance and training issues both for specific UFA members and for wider policy-related matters;
- Emerging and evolving money laundering, terrorist financing and proliferation financing typologies; and
- Special issues of significance to individual UFA members and to the whole membership.
Discussion this year included, among other things, the UFA’s upcoming third round of mutual evaluations and the new FATF standards/assessment methodology, as well as progress by individual UFA members against the recommendations in second round mutual evaluation reports (ME Progress Reports).
