Finland's Ministry of Finance and Ministry of the Interior have published Finland's first national strategy for countering money laundering, terrorist financing, and the evasion and circumvention of targeted financial sanctions, alongside national risk assessments and action plans designed to steer coordinated, risk-based action. The package concludes that Finland's overall money laundering risk is significant and that its terrorist financing risk is moderately significant. The Government has adopted a resolution covering the strategy, the risk assessments and the action plans. The national assessment identifies the highest risks in unofficial money transfer systems, crypto-asset services and payment services. It notes that terrorist financing often involves international cash flows through registered hawala-type money remittance services and unregistered hawalas, and identifies limited supervisory resources, insufficient expertise and weak information exchange as the main domestic vulnerabilities. The accompanying 2026–2029 action plans set out responsible parties, resources, implementation schedules and metrics, and for the first time include a dedicated plan for the non-profit organisation sector, following a 2024 sectoral risk assessment.

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