Japan Seeks Changes to Myanmar’s Financial Watchdog Listing
Politics · First reported 30 Oct, 10:35 · Updated 22:55
Japan is seeking to have the Financial Action Task Force remove Myanmar from its blacklist, which would end enhanced screening requirements for financial transactions with the country. The supplied report says this could ease business checks; it also notes Myanmar’s 2021 coup and scrutiny over scam centers and illicit finance.
- Japan wants the Financial Action Task Force to drop enhanced screening requirements for financial transactions with Myanmar.
- The report says removing Myanmar from the blacklist would ease checks on doing business with the country.
- The report links the listing to safeguards against money laundering and terrorist financing, and notes scrutiny of Myanmar over scam centers and illicit finance.
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- Japan’s request
- Remove Myanmar from the Financial Action Task Force blacklist.
- Proposed change
- Drop enhanced screening requirements for financial transactions with Myanmar.
- Potential effect
- Ease checks on doing business with Myanmar.
- Context cited
- Myanmar’s military seized power in a 2021 coup; the country remains under scrutiny over scam centers and illicit finance.
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- An earlier story reported that Toyota and Waymo planned to begin testing autonomous bZ4X electric vehicles in Japan in 2027. [d809251c-ecf4-4dd6-9c81-61edf2d2791c]
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