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Kazakhstan’s AML Compliance: A Comprehensive Checklist
Kazakhstan has made significant strides in implementing anti-money laundering (AML) regulations, as reflected in its recent FATF Mutual Evaluation. The evaluation assesses a country’s compliance with the 40 Recommendations of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).
Assessment Breakdown
Here is a breakdown of Kazakhstan’s performance in each area:
Risk and Approach
- Assessing Risk and Applying a Risk-Based Approach: Largely Compliant
National Cooperation and Coordination
- National Cooperation and Coordination: Compliant
Money Laundering Offence
- Money Laundering Offence: Largely Compliant
Confiscation and Provisional Measures
- Confiscation and Provisional Measures: Largely Compliant
Terrorist Financing Offence
- Terrorist Financing Offence: Largely Compliant
Targeted Financial Sanctions
- Targeted Financial Sanctions Related to Terrorism and Terrorist Financing: Partially Compliant
- Targeted Financial Sanctions Related to Proliferation: Partially Compliant
Additional Areas of Compliance
Non-Profit Organisations
- Non-Profit Organisations: Largely Compliant
Financial Institution Secrecy Laws
- Financial Institution Secrecy Laws: Largely Compliant
Customer Due Diligence
- Customer Due Diligence: Largely Compliant
Record Keeping
- Record Keeping: Largely Compliant
Specific Industries and Sectors
Politically Exposed Persons
- Politically Exposed Persons: Largely Compliant
Correspondent Banking
- Correspondent Banking: Largely Compliant
Money or Value Transfer Services
- Money or Value Transfer Services: Largely Compliant
Emerging Trends and Technologies
New Technologies
- New Technologies: Partially Compliant
Reporting and Investigation
Wire Transfers
- Wire Transfers: Largely Compliant
Reliance on Third Parties
- Reliance on Third Parties: Largely Compliant
Internal Controls and Foreign Branches and Subsidiaries
- Internal Controls and Foreign Branches and Subsidiaries: Largely Compliant
International Cooperation
Higher-Risk Countries
- Higher-Risk Countries: Largely Compliant
Reporting of Suspicious Transactions
- Reporting of Suspicious Transactions: Compliant
Tipping-Off and Confidentiality
- Tipping-Off and Confidentiality: Compliant
Designated Non-Financial Businesses and Professions (DNFBPs)
DNFBPs: Customer Due Diligence
- DNFBPs: Customer Due Diligence: Largely Compliant
DNFBPs: Other Measures
- DNFBPs: Other Measures: Largely Compliant
Transparency and Beneficial Ownership
Transparency and Beneficial Ownership of Legal Persons
- Transparency and Beneficial Ownership of Legal Persons: Partially Compliant
Transparency and Beneficial Ownership of Legal Arrangements
- Transparency and Beneficial Ownership of Legal Arrangements: Largely Compliant
Regulation and Supervision
Regulation and Supervision of Financial Institutions
- Regulation and Supervision of Financial Institutions: Partially Compliant
Powers of Supervisors
- Powers of Supervisors: Largely Compliant
Regulation and Supervision of DNFBPs
- Regulation and Supervision of DNFBPs: Partially Compliant
Financial Intelligence Units and Statistics
Financial Intelligence Units
- Financial Intelligence Units: Compliant
Statistics
- Statistics: Largely Compliant
Guidance and Feedback
Guidance and Feedback
- Guidance and Feedback: Largely Compliant
Sanctions
Sanctions
- Sanctions: Partially Compliant
International Instruments and Cooperation
International Instruments
- International Instruments: Largely Compliant
Mutual Legal Assistance
- Mutual Legal Assistance: Largely Compliant
Extradition
- Extradition: Largely Compliant
Other Forms of International Cooperation
- Other Forms of International Cooperation: Largely Compliant