Financial Action Task Force of Latin America runs strategic preparation course in Honduras ahead of fifth round mutual evaluation

The Financial Action Task Force of Latin America (GAFILAT) reported that Honduras hosted a Strategic Preparation Course for Mutual Evaluation on 24–27 March 2026 to strengthen the country’s readiness for the fifth round of GAFILAT mutual evaluations. The programme was positioned as an initial step ahead of the evaluation, focused on setting objectives and a roadmap, describing progress since the previous mutual evaluation, prioritising effectiveness gaps, and preparing verifiable evidence aligned with Honduras’s money laundering and terrorist financing risk profile. The agenda covered the fifth-round evaluation approach and success factors, identifying technical compliance and effectiveness gaps, and modules on risk assessment and coherent policies, corporate transparency and beneficial ownership, risk-based supervision, asset recovery, financial intelligence, and the investigation and prosecution of money laundering, terrorist financing and proliferation financing. It also included work on the evaluation roadmap and preparation of the risk and context, technical compliance and effectiveness questionnaires, with an emphasis on planning, interagency coordination, the country narrative and evidence of effectiveness; Spain supported delivery of the activity.