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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.

APG Secretariat held a SIP visit to Majuro in February to support the RMI AML/CFT Council to develop a priority implementation plan in response to the recommended actions in the 2024 ME report, thank you to virtual inputs from Fiji and Cook Islands.

Two of the APG Secretariat PACD team visited Nauru for the SIP in January. The visit included highly productive meetings with senior officials and the private sector to plan a way forward after their ME report was adopted at the 2024 AM in Abu Dhabi.

The second in-person meeting of the Pacific AML/CFT Supervisors’ Forum was held from 10 to 11 July 2024 in Brisbane, Australia.

The Pacific Banking Forum, hosted by the Australian and United States Governments was held in Brisbane, Australia from 8 to 9 July 2024.

From 20-24 November 2023, the APG held its second fully in-person Assessor Training Workshop since 2019 in Ottawa, Canada.

From 21-23 August 2023 the APG conducted a Strategic Implementation Planning visit to Lao PDR following the adoption of Lao PDR’s July 2023 mutual evaluation report.

The APG conducted a visit to Vietnam from 11 – 13 September 2023 focused on priority activities and programmes to respond to Vietnam’s FATF ICRG action plan following an invitation from the State Bank of Vietnam.

A meeting of the Pacific AML/CFT Supervisors’ Forum was held on 30 May to 1 June 2023 in Auckland, New Zealand.