FATF victory leaves adviser compliance load unchanged
27 October 2025
The headline financial services news this October is that the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has announced that South Africa has been removed from its ‘increased monitoring’ grey list, ending a punishment that was meted out almost three years ago, in February 2023. Today’s newsletter offers some comments on the development, which is unlikely to shift the administrative and compliance burden faced by financial and investment advisers.