The Middle East and North Africa Financial Action Task Force (MENAFATF), in cooperation with the Eurasian Group on Combating Money Laundering and the Financing of Terrorism (EAG), reported on a joint forum for supervisory authorities and the private sector held in Moscow on May 28, 2025 alongside the EAG’s 42nd Plenary and related working group meetings. The event focused on how risk management frameworks are evolving in response to new technologies. Interactive sessions covered cybercrime and cross-border digital risks, social engineering as a driver of illegal activity, know-your-customer controls in the digital environment including the role of artificial intelligence, links between virtual assets and terrorist financing, and building an international risk management culture. Participants included senior officials from regulatory and supervisory authorities, private-sector experts, and representatives of international organisations and member states, with contributions from other regional groups and United Nations entities including the United Nations Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee (UNCCT), the Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate (CTED), and the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT). The forum was presented as a regional cooperation model that could be built on to expand partnerships with other Financial Action Task Force member states in addressing emerging financial crime challenges.

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