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The 2023 APG Typologies & Capacity Building Workshop was hosted by the government of India in collaboration with the APG and World Bank from 28 November to 1 December 2023 in New Delhi, India.

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

In October 2021, the APG commenced a project on illicit financial flows arising from illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing. This Issues Paper is the final output from that project.

An APG-focussed training course on the FATF standards was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 6 to 10 November 2023. The workshop was generously supported by Japan and hosted by Bank Negara Malaysia at the Lanai Kijang Training Institute in Malaysia

The FATF granted full membership to Indonesia at the FATF’s meeting on 27 October 2023. Indonesia has become the FATF’s 40th member and 12th joint member in the APG.

The onsite visit for Papua New Guinea’s 3rd Round APG Mutual Evaluation was conducted from 2 to 13 October 2023 in Port Moresby.

The APG and Global Center on Cooperative Security are pleased to release their joint report entitled 'Implementation of FATF Recommendation 8 and Immediate Outcome 10 - Successes, Challenges, and Lessons Learned from the Asia Pacific Region'.

The onsite visit for Timor-Leste’s 3rd Round APG Mutual Evaluation was conducted from 18 to 28 September 2023 in Dili, Timor-Leste.

The onsite visit for Nauru’s 2nd mutual evaluation was conducted from 9-16 October 2023 in Yaren, Nauru.