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More than 200 delegates from 29 members, six observers and over 30 private sector participants, attended the 2025 APG Typologies Workshop from 10-12 November 2025 in Bangkok, Thailand.

Publication of the Maldives and Niue Mutual Evaluation Reports

The 2025 APG Annual Meeting and Technical Assistance & Training (TA&T) Forum took place in Tokyo during the week of 25 August, drawing over 400 delegates from across the Asia-Pacific.

The APG conducted a Strategic Implementation Planning visit to Timor-Leste from 10-12 June 2025 following the adoption of Timor-Leste’s 2024 mutual evaluation report.

The face-to-face visit for Niue's APG Mutual Evaluation was conducted from 3 to 5 June 2025 in Alofi, Niue.

The APG Secretariat welcomed Co-Chairs, Deputy Vice Minister of Finance for International Affairs Mitsutoshi Kajikawa and Deputy Commissioner Ian McCartney, as well as colleagues from the Ministry of Finance Japan to the Sydney office on 7 April 2025

Read about current projects and activities of the PACD program. The April newsletter highlights the March visit to the 2025 FATF Private Sector Consultative Forum by Central Bank of Samoa, Governor Atalina Enari and the APG's Suzie White.

All APG Secretariat staff attended a planning forum from 18-20 March 2025 in Bowral, Australia. With considerable shifts occurring in the Secretariat’s operating environment, they took the opportunity to reflect on the purpose and priorities of the APG Secretariat, understand the drivers of change as well as contribute to evolving the Secretariat by reshaping the operating model and building flexible capability.

The APG Secretariat participated in the launch event of the new FATF report on ‘Detecting, Disrupting, and Investigating Online Child Sexual Exploitation’ in London on 13 March 2025.