Republic of Serbia Securities Commission reports on workshops presenting updated national risk assessments for money laundering terrorist financing digital assets and proliferation financing

The Republic of Serbia Securities Commission outlined two workshops held in January and February 2025 to present key findings and recommendations from Serbia’s updated national risk assessments on money laundering, terrorist financing, risks in the digital assets sector, and the financing of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, which were adopted by the Government in line with Financial Action Task Force (FATF) recommendations. A first workshop on 29–30 January 2025 in Belgrade, organised by the Council of Europe with support from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, brought together representatives from preventive and investigative parts of the anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing system. Sessions covered money laundering threats and typologies, system vulnerabilities, the role of supervisors, risks in the digital assets sector, and reporting methods, with participation including the Securities Commission, the National Bank of Serbia and the Administration for the Prevention of Money Laundering; the Commission was represented by its Secretary, Goran Kuprešanin. A follow-on event on 6–7 February 2025 at the Serbian Chamber of Commerce focused on financial and non-financial sectors, aiming to further analyse risks and define future activities, and to familiarise participants with updated assessments and proposed mitigation strategies involving public and private sector cooperation. The Commission indicated it will continue contributing, in its supervisory role, to implementation of measures aligned with the updated risk assessments and associated recommendations.