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Peer-to-peer exchanges between the Spanish and Lithuanian Financial Intelligence Units
As part of its ongoing efforts aimed at enhancing the risk-based approach to Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) supervision in Lithuania, the Council of Europe’s Economic Crime and Cooperation Division (ECCD) supports the Financial Crime Intelligence Service...
Council of Europe Member States discuss existing challenges and good practices in the AML/CFT risk-based supervision of DNFBPs and VASPs
The Council of Europe’s Economic Crime and Cooperation Division, holds a multi-country conference on “AML/CFT Supervision of Designated Non-Financial Businesses and Professions and Virtual Assets Service Providers: Practical Application of Sector-Specific Measures”, in Vilnius, Lithuania. The...
Training of Trainers on AML/CFT risk-based supervision for Lithuanian supervisory authorities
On 22-24 May 2024, the Economic Crime and Cooperation Division (ECCD) of the Council of Europe organised a Training of Trainers on conducting Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) risk-based supervision for representatives of supervisory authorities for the...
Enhancing the AML/CFT risk-based supervision of legal professionals in Lithuania
The Council of Europe's Economic Crime and Cooperation Division (ECCD) is currently supporting Lithuanian Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) authorities in further enhancing the risk-based supervision of Designated Non-Financial Businesses and Professions...
Training for Lithuanian authorities on the risk-based AML/CFT supervision of virtual assets service providers
On 17-18 April 2024, the Economic Crime and Cooperation Division of the Council of Europe organised a training on conducting Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) risk-based supervision of virtual assets service providers (VASPs) in Lithuania. The event gathered...
Manual for AML/CFT risk-based supervision manual for the Lithuanian Financial Crime Investigation Service developed
The Council of Europe’s Economic Crime and Cooperation Division (ECCD) is currently supporting the Lithuanian Financial Crime Investigation Service under the Ministry of the Interior (FCIS) with strengthening its risk-based Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT)...
Enhancing the AML/CFT risk-based supervision of Designated Non-Financial Businesses and Professions in Lithuania
On 20-23 February 2024, the Economic Crime and Cooperation Division of the Council of Europe organised a training on conducting Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) risk-based supervision of Designated Non-Financial Businesses and Professions (DNFBPs) in...
Undertaking a Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Sectoral Risk Assessment for higher-risk sectors in Lithuania
On 19 September 2023, the Economic Crime and Cooperation Division of the Council of Europe organised a Workshop on the Methodology for conducting a Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (ML/TF) Sectoral Risk Assessment (SRA) of higher risk sectors in Lithuania. The event gathered 16...
Enhancing Lithuania’s framework for exchanging information for the purpose of AML/CFT risk-based supervision
The Council of Europe's Economic Crime and Cooperation Division (ECCD) is currently supporting Lithuanian authorities with reviewing and providing recommendations for further enhancing the framework for exchanging information between the Lithuanian Financial Crime Investigation Service under the...
Multi-country exchange of experience on the AML/CFT risk-based supervision of virtual assets service providers
On 29-30 June 2023, the Council of Europe’s Economic Crime and Cooperation Division (ECCD), in cooperation with the European Commission Directorate General for Structural Reform Support (DG REFORM) and Banco de Portugal (BdP), held a two-day multi-country Workshop on “Implementing Anti-Money...
Exchanging with the FCIS of Lithuania on the effective use of IT tools in AML/CFT risk-based supervision
Following the request from the Lithuanian Financial Crime Investigation Service under the Ministry of the Interior (FCIS) to gain more insight about existing automated tools for data collection and risk-based Anti-Money Laundering/Countering Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) supervision, the...
Supporting Lithuanian authorities to develop a ML/TF Sectoral Risk Assessment Methodology for higher-risk sectors
On 3 April 2023, the Economic Crime and Cooperation Division of the Council of Europe organised a Workshop on Assessing the Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (ML/TF) risks of obliged entities’ sectors exposed to higher ML/TF risks, as identified in the 2020 ML/TF National Risk Assessment...
Launching the Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Sectoral Risk Assessment of Virtual Assets and Virtual Asset Service Providers in Lithuania
The Council of Europe Economic Crime and Cooperation Division (ECCD) is providing technical assistance to Lithuanian authorities with conducting the Sectoral Risk Assessment (SRA) of Virtual Assets (VA) and Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASPs). In this regard, and in order to kick-off the SRA...
Practitioners discuss emerging money laundering and terrorist financing trends and challenges in the context of technical cooperation against economic crime
The Economic Crime and Cooperation Division of the Council of Europe organised, on 12 December 2022 a Roundtable on “Emerging money laundering and terrorist financing trends and challenges” involving practitioners and representatives of beneficiary institutions from 12 jurisdictions (including...
Lithuanian authorities exchange on implementation tools and data sources for ML/TF risk profiling of obliged entities
On 22 November 2022, the Council of Europe’s Economic Crime and Cooperation Division organised a Workshop on implementation tools and data sources for money laundering and terrorist financing (ML/TF) risk profiling of obliged entities. The event was held in Vilnius, Lithuania, as part of the...
Regional Workshop “Risk-Based AML/CFT Supervision: Effective Assessment and Mitigation of Emerging Money Laundering/Terrorist Financing Risks”
On 27-28 October 2022, the Council of Europe’s Economic Crime and Cooperation Division, in cooperation with the European Commission Directorate General for Structural Reform Support (DG REFORM) and the Bank of Portugal, held a multi-country Workshop on “Risk-Based AML/CFT Supervision: Effective...
New projects launched in the areas of Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism supervision and the EU sanctions regime
In June 2022, the Council of Europe and the European Commission Directorate General for Structural Reform Support (DG REFORM) have officially launched the implementation of two new joint Actions within the “Support to EU Member States in the implementation of reforms under the Technical Support...