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FATF hails India's financial digital stack

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November 15, 2024

FATF RECOGNISED INDIA FOR ITS EFFORTS TO CURB TERROR FINANCING, MONEY LAUNDERING

- Neeraj Chauhan and Rajeev Jayaswal

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the global money laundering and terrorism financing watchdog, has endorsed India's digital stack—the JAM trinity and Unified Payment Interface (UPI)—for its overall low vulnerability.

The latest edition of FATF's 'Money Laundering National Risk Assessment Guidance' recognised India's financial inclusion mechanism of combining Aadhaar identification, Jan Dhan accounts and mobile numbers (popularly known as JAM trinity) as an effective tool for formalising financial transactions.

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