The EU’s Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA) on Thursday published draft technical standards intended to unify how financial supervisors assess risks and how the supervisory body will select the “most complex” high-risk institutions and groups it will directly oversee. 

“These instruments mark a significant step toward supervisory convergence,” said AMLA Chair Bruna Szego in a statement. “They reflect the close and productive cooperation with national authorities, whose commitment is essential to making the new AML/CFT framework effective.” 

AMLA’s draft of regulatory technical standards (RTS) on supervisory assessments outlines a common methodology for EU national supervisors to evaluate money-laundering and terrorism-financing risks across the bloc, including through standardized data points and a shared methodology on how to weigh relevant factors against one another. 

The second draft RTS applies the same data points and criteria to AMLA’s selection process for identifying the 40 financial institutions it will directly supervise. 

Once approved by the European Commission, these rules would apply directly across the EU, the AMLA said in a statement. The authority is seeking public feedback on the standards through January 27, 2026. 

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