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№ 4/2023

Fìnansi Ukr. 2023 (4): 55–75
https://doi.org/10.33763/finukr2023.04.055

FINANCIAL MONITORING

KUZMINSKA Olga 1

1SESE “The Academy of Financial Management”
OrcID ID : https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6625-7528


Assessment of conformity of measures of the financial monitoring system of Ukraine with FATF international standards


Introduction. The list of priority European integration measures in Ukraine envisages further harmonization of the national financial monitoring system with FATF international standards (recommendations). Therefore, it is important to analyze both the results of the assessment of the technical compliance of measures in the anti-legalization sphere of Ukraine with FATF recommendations, and their effectiveness.
Problem Statement. Assessment of the degree of technical compliance of the prevention and countermeasures system in Ukraine with the FATF recommendations, and generalization of the results of the assessment of the compliance of the measures of the national financial monitoring system with the performance criteria presented in the MONEYVAL reports.
Purpose. To systematize strong and weak characteristics of the technical compliance of measures of the national financial monitoring system with FATF recommendations, to investigate the compliance of the current practice of financial intelligence of Ukraine with the MONEYVAL efficiency criteria, as well as to conduct a comparative analysis of international experience in the anti-legalization field on the basis of assessment of the technical compliance of measures in the anti-legalization field with FATF international standards (recommendations) and the result characteristics of the effectiveness of these measures presented in the MONEYVAL reports.
Methods. General scientific and special methods based on the dialectical approach are applied: induction, deduction, analysis, synthesis, grouping, comparison.
Results. The article provides a comparative analysis of MONEYVAL reports on the technical compliance of measures of anti-legalization systems with FATF international standards in Ukraine, Lithuania, Poland, Cyprus, Albania, and Bulgaria, analyzes the compliance of measures of prevention and countermeasures systems of these countries with the efficiency criteria specified in MONEYVAL reports. MONEYVAL reporting information has been systematized according to the levels of assessments of technical compliance with FATF international standards of measures of prevention and countermeasures of the specified countries, and the levels of compliance with performance criteria in these countries.
Conclusions. The results of the research can be used in the further harmonization with FATF international standards of national regulatory and legal acts, the organization of international cooperation and the exchange of experience between national financial intelligence services.

Keywords:financial monitoring system, conformity assessment, performance assessment, FATF international standards (recommendations), MONEYVAL reports, comparative analysis

JEL: F36, F52, G18, H56, O57


Kuzminska O. . Assessment of conformity of measures of the financial monitoring system of Ukraine with FATF international standards / O. Kuzminska // Фінанси України. - 2023. - № 4. - C. 55-75.

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