The Moroccan Capital Markets Authority announced it has organised an awareness seminar on anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism, alongside terrorism- and proliferation-related financial sanctions. The event was coordinated with the National Financial Intelligence Authority and the national committee responsible for implementing United Nations Security Council sanctions, in preparation for Morocco’s upcoming mutual evaluation by the Financial Action Task Force for the Middle East and North Africa. The seminar brought together managers of brokerage firms, management companies and entities providing investment advice. The National Financial Intelligence Authority reviewed its engagement with supervised entities and stressed the importance of suspicious transaction reports as a key indicator of the effectiveness of capital market participants’ AML/CFT frameworks, and shared key conclusions from the third national assessment of money laundering and terrorist financing risks. The Moroccan Capital Markets Authority presented the updated capital-markets sector risk map, including assessed compliance and effectiveness levels across the activities it supervises, and introduced its risk-based approach guidance aimed at market professionals. Further awareness activities for capital market participants are planned in the coming days as part of the authority’s 2026 priority measures.
Moroccan Capital Markets Authority 2026-04-21
Moroccan Capital Markets Authority runs AML/CFT and UN sanctions workshop for capital market firms ahead of a regional mutual evaluation
The Moroccan Capital Markets Authority held an awareness seminar on anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism, including terrorism- and proliferation-related financial sanctions, in coordination with the National Financial Intelligence Authority and the national committee implementing UN Security Council sanctions, ahead of Morocco’s upcoming mutual evaluation by the FATF for the Middle East and North Africa. Authorities highlighted suspicious transaction reports, shared findings from the third national money laundering and terrorist financing risk assessment, presented an updated capital-markets sector risk map and risk-based guidance, and announced further awareness activities for capital market participants as part of its 2026 priority measures.