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Caribbean Financial Action Task Force

Abbreviation

CFATF

Summary

Based in Trinidad and Tobago, the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force implements common countermeasures against money laundering and terrorism finance. It is one of the eight FATF-style Regional Bodies (FSRBs). The CFATF’s primary aim is “to achieve effective implementation of and compliance with its recommendations to prevent and control money laundering and to combat the financing of terrorism.”  

Members

  • Anguilla
  • Antigua & Barbuda
  • Aruba
  • Bahamas
  • Barbados
  • Belize
  • Bermuda
  • British Virgin Islands
  • Cayman Islands
  • Curaçao
  • Dominica
  • Dominican Republic
  • El Salvador
  • Grenada
  • Guatemala
  • Guyana
  • Haiti
  • Jamaica
  • Montserrat
  • St. Kitts & Nevis
  • St. Lucia
  • St. Maarten
  • St. Vincent & the Grenadines
  • Suriname
  • Trinidad & Tobago
  • Turks & Caicos Islands
  • Venezuela

Observers

  • Asia / Pacific Group Secretariat
  • Caribbean Customs and Law Enforcement Council (CCLEC)
  • Caribbean Development Bank (CDB)
  • CARICOM
  • Central American bank for Economic Integration (Banco Centro Americano de Integración Económica)
  • Commonwealth Secretariat
  • ECDCO
  • ECCB
  • European Commission
  • FATF
  • GAFISUD
  • UN Global Programme on Money Laundering (GPML)
  • IMF
  • Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)
  • Interpol
  • Jersey
  • Offshore Group of Banking Supervisors (OGBS)
  • Organization of American States / Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (OAS/CICAD)
  • United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention (UNDCP)
  • World Bank
  • World Customs Organisation (WCO)

Website

https://www.cfatf-gafic.org/