The Egmont Group has published its 2024–2025 Annual Report, setting out a year of expansion and operational work across its global network of Financial Intelligence Units. Membership rose by five to 182 FIUs after the admission of Equatorial Guinea, The Gambia, Mozambique, Nauru and Sierra Leone. Across the reporting period, the Group completed 18 projects, advanced capacity-building through the Egmont Centre of FIU Excellence and Leadership, and kept its strategic focus on cross-border information exchange, stronger member capabilities and cooperation with international anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing partners. Key developments included completion of five Information Exchange Working Group projects, including a joint handbook with the Financial Action Task Force, INTERPOL and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime on informal international cooperation, alongside continued work to revise the Egmont Group Principles for Information Exchange between FIUs and the Support and Compliance Process. At the July 2025 plenary, Heads of FIUs endorsed elevating FIU operational independence and autonomy characteristics to core membership requirements, enhancements to the Egmont Secure Web for cross-jurisdictional AML/CFT analysis, and a new funding model for ECOFEL. The report also notes that 47 memoranda of understanding were signed, three major ECOFEL certification modules were finalized, and ECOFEL delivered 18 workshops and training courses to 360 in-person participants. Looking ahead, the report points to continued development of the Egmont Secure Web Matching System and the Streamlined Data Integration for FIU Questionnaires project, follow-through on the FIU Autonomy Project endorsed in July 2025, and the planned rollout of the ECOFEL Certification Program as course development and learning platform deployment continue.
Egmont Group2026-05-25
Egmont Group publishes annual report highlighting expansion to 182 FIUs and progress on information exchange and autonomy reforms
The Egmont Group’s 2024–2025 Annual Report highlights network expansion to 182 Financial Intelligence Units, completion of 18 projects, and continued focus on cross-border information exchange, member capability building and cooperation with international AML/CFT partners. FIU heads endorsed making operational independence and autonomy core membership requirements, enhancements to the Egmont Secure Web, and a new funding model for the Egmont Centre of FIU Excellence and Leadership. The report also notes extensive training, memoranda of understanding, and further work on secure web matching, data integration for FIU questionnaires, and implementation of the FIU Autonomy Project and ECOFEL Certification Program.