--- title: "Germany (DE) — Financial-Integrity Intelligence · Sentinel" canonical: https://sentinel.gi/jurisdictions/germany/ source_html: /jurisdictions/germany/index.html description: "Financial integrity intelligence for Germany (DE): sanctions, beneficial ownership, enabler jurisdictions, conflict finance, digital assets and compliance technology — with sourced findings." generated_at: 2026-11-08T04:46:02Z content_sha256: 76bd72f55b5fdb5b35507373ff7fd9aaca56d748e8aa14a6c5311a9e6895610d generator: "fe-fleet/md-twin@1.0" --- # Germany (DE) — Financial-Integrity Intelligence · Sentinel Not every instrument is backed by its official text yet. At least one law or rulebook covered here has no official source (tier 1) retrieved for it yet. No finding on this page is shown with confidence above “Probable” until stronger sources are retrieved. Financial Integrity Monitor # Germany DE Domains covered 8 of 8 Sources 187 Role actions 8 Horizon <90d 1 Jurisdiction profile FATF status: Largely Compliant Tier: A Risk direction: Stable Enablement vs enforcement: Mixed Germany operates a comprehensive AML/CFT framework (Geldwäschegesetz, Criminal Code, Banking Act) supervised by BaFin, the FIU (Zoll), and over 300 sector/Länder-level supervisors, with the EU's new AML Authority (AMLA) headquartered in Frankfurt. Key deficiencies - Critical under-resourcing of the >300 DNFBP/financial supervisors relative to roughly 1 million supervised non-financial entities - No market entry checks for the trust and company service provider (TCSP) sector - Underutilized Transparency Register with very low suspicious-transaction reporting from real estate agents - High cash usage and limited proactive identification of unlicensed hawala/MVTS operators - Fragmented coordination across Germany's 16 Länder supervisory and law-enforcement authorities Recent developments (18m) - Frankfurt prosecutors raided Deutsche Bank offices in Frankfurt and Berlin (28 Jan 2026) in a money-laundering probe linked to historic transactions with sanctioned oligarch Roman Abramovich - A second, previously unreported Deutsche Bank AML probe (stemming from a May 2025 search) was confirmed by prosecutors on 30 Jan 2026 - Deutsche Bank self-reported potential sanctions breaches involving Russian clients to the Bundesbank (April 2026) - Germany's federal prosecutor ordered the arrest of five men over alleged €30 million sanctions-busting exports to Russia (2 Feb 2026) - German police broke up a fraud/money-laundering network involving staff at four major German payment providers, worth an estimated $350 million (5 Nov 2025) - AMLA became operational in Frankfurt with a Council-appointed chair (Jan 2025) as the EU AML Package build-out continues Law made at European Economic Area level that applies in Germany is covered once, on the [European Economic Area](/jurisdictions/eea/) page. This page covers Germany’s own layer: implementation, national authorities, national options and local enforcement. Brief ## Lead signal #### Lead Signal Germanys supervisory track record this period is defined by routine, active enforcement rather than any structural shift in the rules it applies. Over 21 to 22 October 2026, BaFin took three distinct actions that, read together, describe a regulator exercising its existing powers across three different registers of financial-crime risk: withdrawal of a banking licence held by the German branch of an Iranian bank, monetary fines against an individual for breach of securities-notification duties, and a public warning against an entity offering banking services without authorisation. None of these actions changes the underlying legal framework; each applies it. Read full brief #### Lead Signal Germanys supervisory track record this period is defined by routine, active enforcement rather than any structural shift in the rules it applies. Over 21 to 22 October 2026, BaFin took three distinct actions that, read together, describe a regulator exercising its existing powers across three different registers of financial-crime risk: withdrawal of a banking licence held by the German branch of an Iranian bank, monetary fines against an individual for breach of securities-notification duties, and a public warning against an entity offering banking services without authorisation. None of these actions changes the underlying legal framework; each applies it. The most consequential of the three is the withdrawal of authorisation from Bank Saderat Iran's Hamburg branch, with an accompanying wind-down order. A licence withdrawal against the German branch of an Iranian financial institution sits adjacent to the sanctions architecture that governs dealings with Iranian counterparties, even though the action itself is framed as a licensing and prudential matter rather than a sanctions designation. The timing and target are consistent with established German and EU supervisory practice toward Iranian financial institutions, continuing a posture that has held steady rather than shifting this period. #### Other Developments Notification-duty fines under the Wertpapierhandelsgesetz. On 21 October 2026, BaFin imposed two fines of EUR 6,000 each, EUR 12,000 in total, against an unnamed natural person for breaching notification duties under German securities-trading law. This is a market-transparency enforcement action rather than a money-laundering matter in the narrow sense, but it sits within the same supervisory apparatus and reflects BaFin's continued willingness to impose monetary penalties for disclosure failures. Public warning against unlicensed banking activity. Also on 21 October 2026, BaFin issued a consumer warning against an entity styling itself Mineral Resources Holdings and Commercial Investment Bureau, operating via the website mraib.com, for offering banking business without the required authorisation under German banking law. Warnings of this kind are a standing tool in BaFin's enforcement repertoire against unlicensed cross-border solicitation, and the absence of a formally identified operator is itself a familiar feature of this category of case. #### Cross-Monitor Connections The licence withdrawal against Bank Saderat Iran's Hamburg branch touches the sanctions-and-market-access architecture that other monitors track from different angles: a prudential regulator removing a licensed foothold for an Iranian-linked institution has effects on correspondent access and market exclusion that extend beyond the immediate supervisory decision. The unlicensed-activity warning, by contrast, is a pattern recurring across many jurisdictions regardless of sector, and its significance lies more in the routineness of the response than in any novel typology it reveals. #### Outlook None of this period's three actions signals a change in Germany's regulatory architecture; all three are enforcement against a framework that remains stable. The more informative question going forward is whether the Bank Saderat Iran wind-down generates further disclosures about the scope of its activity before closure, and whether BaFin's warning against the mraib.com operation leads to any identification of the entity behind it. Absent new instrument-level developments, the near-term picture for Germany in this area is one of continuity in supervisory posture rather than reform. Earlier periodic briefs (6) 18 Oct 2026 · fim-2026-10-18 #### Lead Signal Germanys financial-crime supervisor BaFin delivered the clearest signal of the cycle by refusing futurum bank AGs application for MiCAR crypto-asset service provider (CASP) authorisation, an application that had been pending since 27 June 2025. The refusal, disclosed 6 October 2026 through Bitcoin Group SEs mandatory ad-hoc notice rather than through a BaFin-published enforcement notice, ends the toleration under which futurum bank had continued operating Bitcoin.de style crypto-asset services while the application sat under review. Germany shortened its own national grandfathering window under the MiCA transition architecture to 31 December 2025, six months ahead of the EU-wide outer limit, and this refusal is the first concrete enforcement data point showing that cut-off carries real consequence for an established, large retail platform rather than remaining a paper deadline. The episode gives substance to earlier joint BaFin and Financial Intelligence Unit warnings about money-laundering and regulatory-circumvention risk clustering at the edges of grandfathering periods, where firms with large pre-existing customer books face a hard choice between meeting a harmonised EU standard or losing market access. The refusal sits alongside continuing conventional AML/CTF enforcement. BaFin ordered Deutsche Bank AG on 15 September 2026, with the order finalised 6 October and announced 9 October 2026, to meet new deadlines for remedying deficiencies in its AML/CTF transaction-monitoring data-processing systems. This is the third such order since 2021, following earlier rounds in 2021 and 2023, and signals a persistence of structural weakness at a systemically important institution rather than a single remediable incident. Separately, BaFin fined abcfinance GmbH 90,000 for violations of the Geldwäschegesetz (GwG), specifically for filing several suspicious-activity reports late in relation to conduct in April 2025. #### Other Developments The EU AML Package continues its scheduled build-out. The GwG-Meldeverordnung (reporting regulation) has applied since 1 March 2026, the new EU Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA) published its technical standards in July 2026, and by the end of 2026 AMLA is expected to have finalised standards and identified roughly 40 financial institutions that will move to direct European supervision from 1 January 2028. None of this is new movement this cycle so much as confirmation that the architecture is proceeding on its stated timetable. Bitcoin Group SE is restructuring Bitcoin.de around external regulated partners. Following the MiCAR refusal, the company is finalising agreements with two separately-regulated German institutions, one to serve as trading counterparty and one as custodian, to resume trading for Bitcoin.des 1.1 million-plus registered users. futurum bank continues safekeeping existing client assets pending any transfer. No financial terms have been disclosed, and the arrangement remains under negotiation as of the most recent reporting. A source discrepancy affects the FATF mutual-evaluation schedule for Germany. FATFs own assessment calendar lists Germanys next possible onsite evaluation period as 1 February 2029, while an older US State Department source stated a 2026 re-evaluation. The two sources are in direct conflict; FATFs own calendar is weighted as the authoritative record, and the discrepancy is recorded rather than resolved by assumption. #### Cross-Monitor Connections The futurum bank refusal is a shared data point across the integrity and payments-architecture lenses: the same enforcement event that signals AML/CTF-adjacent licensing risk to this brief also signals market-access and platform-continuity risk to payments-monitor readers tracking Germanys stablecoin and digital-money landscape, and signals a crypto-licensing-regime tightening to readers tracking token-level regulatory posture. The underlying fact, BaFins refusal and its date, is identical across those readings; what differs is which consequence each reader needs to act on. Separately, the continuing AMLA technical-standards process and the eventual identification of roughly 40 directly-supervised institutions is an architecture shift relevant to any reader tracking the locus of supervisory authority moving from purely national regulators toward a hybrid EU-level regime, a theme that recurs across jurisdictions in the EU AML Package rollout. #### Outlook The most immediate open question is whether futurum bank will lodge a formal appeal against the refusal, and whether BaFin will publish its own primary enforcement notice rather than leaving the record to rest on the issuer's ad-hoc disclosure. Absent either, the regulatory record for this specific action remains thinner than its market significance would suggest. The Deutsche Bank remediation order, now in its third iteration since 2021, bears watching for whether the bank meets the newly finalised deadlines or triggers a further escalation; a fourth order would materially change the read on whether this is a remediable control gap or a structural one. On the EU AML Package, the key date to watch is the end of 2026, when AMLA is expected to finalise its technical standards and name the roughly 40 institutions moving to direct supervision from 1 January 2028; Germany's eventual share of that list will be a significant signal of how the hybrid supervisory perimeter is drawn. 12 Oct 2026 · fim-2026-10-12 #### Lead Signal The most structurally significant German development this cycle is BaFin's refusal of a MiCA crypto-asset service provider authorisation to Futurum Bank AG, the operator of bitcoin.de, disclosed by its parent Bitcoin Group SE on 6 October 2026. The refusal formalises an end to the supervisory toleration under which the platform had continued to operate after national KWG grandfathering expired at the end of 2025 and the EU-wide MiCA transition backstop closed on 1 July 2026; trading and deposits on the platform have in fact been suspended since 12 June 2026. Read against the standing MiCA authorisation gateway, this is a single-firm decision rather than evidence of a broader BaFin policy shift against crypto-asset platforms, but it is the clearest marker yet of how the MiCA transition period is resolving for firms that entered it without a clean authorisation pathway. #### Other Developments BaFin's guideline-publication format change. From 1 October 2026 BaFin began publishing a tabular overview of which EBA and AMLA European Supervisory Authority guidelines it has adopted, in place of the individual circulars it previously issued to confirm adoption. This is a procedural and administrative change to how adoption status is communicated, not a change to any underlying substantive obligation, and an English-language notice followed on 5 October 2026. UniCredit's formal antitrust filing for Commerzbank. UniCredit S.p.A. has formally applied for European Commission antitrust clearance of its proposed acquisition of Commerzbank AG, announced 12 October 2026. UniCredit holds an economic interest representing approximately 47.6 percent of Commerzbank's share capital, and the Commission's review will assess market power across corporate lending, including German Mittelstand financing, deposits, and other banking products. The filing moves a long-watched structural question in German banking concentration into a formal regulatory review track, though the amount and precise terms of the proposed transaction have not been publicly disclosed. #### Cross-Monitor Connections The Futurum Bank refusal sits at the intersection of crypto-asset market structure and the AML/CTF perimeter: a firm losing its MiCA authorisation also loses standing as an EU-passported crypto-asset service provider, which has downstream implications for how counterparties assess its historical customer due-diligence record. The UniCredit-Commerzbank filing is a banking-structure development with no reported financial-crime dimension this cycle, but a transaction of this scale, once it proceeds past notification, typically generates downstream beneficial-ownership and group-structure review by supervisors. The BaFin guideline-table change is purely administrative and has no direct cross-monitor implication beyond the standing EU AML Package architecture described below. #### Outlook The Futurum Bank authorisation refusal and its resulting trading suspension warrant continued attention as EU crypto-asset supervisors complete the first wave of MiCA transition-period decisions through late 2026, since more borderline cases are likely to be resolved on broadly similar grounds. On the banking-structure side, the UniCredit-Commerzbank matter will progress through formal European Commission merger-control review, and the pace and substance of the Commission's market-power assessment will be the development to watch into 2027. 4 Oct 2026 · fim-2026-10-04 #### Lead Signal Germany enters this cycle with its crypto-asset supervisory architecture settling into a mature, in-force posture rather than shifting through new rulemaking. Secondary reporting converges on a single structural picture: BaFin administers the largest population of Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) crypto-asset service provider (CASP) authorisations anywhere in the European Economic Area, a position traceable to Germany closing its national transitional grandfathering window on 31 December 2025, well ahead of the EU-wide outer limit of 1 July 2026 under MiCA. Cited authorisation counts diverge across sources, ranging from roughly 53 to roughly 91 depending on the date and source consulted, and none of the figures have been cross-checked against the European Securities and Markets Authority's own CASP register this cycle, so the concentration is probable rather than confirmed in its precise scale. What is better supported is the direction of travel: commentary converges on intensifying BaFin AML supervisory scrutiny of crypto, fintech and payments institutions, including a reported increase in on-site inspections heading into 2026. The architectural reading is that an early national cutoff functioned as a forcing mechanism, pulling CASP authorisation demand into Germany before the EU-wide deadline arrived, and that BaFin has paired that authorisation concentration with a corresponding supervisory response rather than treating licensing volume as a standalone achievement. A jurisdiction that authorises faster and in greater numbers than its peers, while simultaneously tightening scrutiny of the authorised population, is behaving differently from one that merely processes a licensing backlog. #### Other Developments Federal AML institutional consolidation continues. Germany's Bundesamt zur Bekaempfung von Finanzkriminalitaet (BBF) continues to progressively consolidate AML supervision, sanctions enforcement and financial-intelligence-unit functions under one federal roof, a structural move intended to replace the fragmented federal-state arrangement that FATF has previously criticised. This is corroborated across three independent lower-tier commentary sources, though no primary BaFin or Geldwaschegesetz (GwG) statutory text was retrieved this cycle to confirm the consolidation's exact current scope. AMLA and AMLR milestones are now settled facts rather than forward expectations. The EU Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA) has been operational in Frankfurt since 1 July 2025, and the directly applicable AML Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2024/1624, AMLR) applies from 10 July 2027. These dates carry Tier-1 sourcing for the AMLR application date via the EU's official legal database, giving this strand of the picture a firmer evidentiary footing than the authorisation-count or consolidation findings. A procedural SAR-filing change remains unverified. A single lower-tier vendor source reports that suspicious activity reports must be filed exclusively via the goAML platform without delay, on the same or next working day, from March 2026, under the GwG Section 46(1) standstill duty pending financial-intelligence-unit clearance. This has not been corroborated against BaFin or FIU primary guidance this cycle and is carried at an uncertain confidence level accordingly. #### Cross-Monitor Connections The crypto-authorisation concentration finding sits directly adjacent to the Global Crypto Regulatory Monitor's own licensing-module findings for Germany, where the same KMAG Section 50 transitional-cutoff mechanism and MiCA CASP capital-threshold architecture are tracked in more granular form; this monitor's D5 reading is the AML-supervisory lens on the same underlying regulatory fact rather than a duplicate finding. The World Payments Monitor's standing coverage of German payment-institution licensing and the Wero instant-payments build-out is a related but distinct thread: both monitors are watching BaFin's capacity to supervise a fast-growing population of newly authorised or newly integrated firms, though the payments-monitor material this cycle concerns instant-payment wallets rather than crypto-asset service providers specifically. No conflict-finance, sanctions-evasion, or extractive-industry signal connecting to Germany was located this cycle, leaving those cross-monitor threads quiet for now. #### Outlook The near-term question for Germany's AML/CTF architecture is whether BaFin's reported increase in on-site inspection activity converts into a visible enforcement record against the newly authorised CASP population, which would supply the multi-cycle supervisory track record that is currently absent. Separately, the gap between reported authorisation counts (approximately 53 against approximately 91) is a research gap rather than a regulatory uncertainty, and resolving it against ESMA's own register would sharpen the confidence level of the concentration finding without changing its direction. The BBF consolidation and the AMLA/AMLR timeline are structural and multi-year in nature; neither is expected to generate a discrete near-term event, but both remain the backdrop against which any future German AML enforcement or supervisory development should be read. 28 Sep 2026 · fim-2026-09-28 #### Lead Signal Germany's national KWG crypto-custody grandfathering regime expired on 31 December 2025, ahead of the EU-wide MiCA Article 143(6) backstop of 1 July 2026. Firms that had been operating under the national transitional permission but have not secured a granted MiCA CASP authorisation now operate illegally in Germany unless they hold a valid EU passport from another Member State. This is a structural narrowing of the AML-relevant regulatory perimeter for crypto-asset service providers: the German authorisation gap closes earlier than the EU minimum standard requires, meaning firms that assumed they had until mid-2026 to complete authorisation may already be operating outside the permitted perimeter. #### Other Developments EU AML Package transposition track for Germany continues on its staggered schedule without material acceleration or delay this cycle. Germany is bound directly by the AMLR (Regulation (EU) 2024/1624) from 10 July 2027 without need for national transposition, while 6AMLD (Directive (EU) 2024/1640) transposition proceeds in stages: FIU-access provisions by July 2025, beneficial-ownership register provisions by July 2026, and remaining provisions by July 2027. The GwG (Geldwäschegesetz) remains the operative German AML statute throughout this transition, with BaFin as supervisor and the FIU housed within the Generalzolldirektion. No T1 BaFin or Bundesanzeiger source confirming the DE-specific GwG amendment vehicle was retrieved this cycle, so this transposition-status account rests on secondary reporting. #### Cross-Monitor Connections The KWG grandfathering expiry is a shared signal with the crypto monitor's licensing-perimeter tracking: a firm outside the MiCA CASP authorisation perimeter is simultaneously outside the AML-obligated-entity perimeter that GwG supervision depends on, since German AML supervision of crypto-asset activity is structured around the same authorisation gate. This connects to world-payments only insofar as any payment-adjacent crypto custody arrangement loses its lawful basis at the same moment; no world-payments-specific finding was evidenced this cycle to corroborate a payment-flow dimension to this German development. #### Outlook Watch for BaFin enforcement activity against firms that remained active past the 31 December 2025 grandfathering cliff without a granted MiCA CASP authorisation or valid EU passport; the absence of any enforcement action reported to date against such firms is itself worth monitoring as a capacity or timing question. Watch also for confirmation, against a BaFin or Bundesanzeiger primary source, of the precise state of the DE-specific GwG amendment implementing 6AMLD's July 2026 beneficial-ownership register milestone. 13 Sep 2026 · fim-2026-08-16 #### Lead Signal German financial-integrity architecture this cycle turns on a single point of convergence: an active sanctions-evasion enforcement case landing in the same window as a structural reordering of the federal AML architecture meant to catch such cases. A German-registered shell-company network is assessed to have delivered approximately thirty million euros in restricted goods to at least twenty-four Russian arms manufacturers since 2022, with five arrests recorded in February 2026 tied to the scheme. The finding rests on a single tier-three source and lacks a tier-one German prosecutorial confirmation this cycle, so it is carried at Assessed confidence rather than treated as adjudicated fact. What elevates this beyond a discrete enforcement item is its coincidence with confirmation, at High confidence and corroborated across a Bundestag record and independent legal-industry reporting, that the flagship consolidated anti-financial-crime authority of the federal government, the Bundesamt fur Bekampfung von Finanzkriminalitat established under the 2023 FKBG, has collapsed with the end of the Ampel coalition. In its place the government is pursuing a customs-centred alternative, the Zollfinanzgerechtigkeitsgesetz, expected to become largely effective from January 2027. The analytical significance is architectural rather than incidental: an active evasion network operating through German corporate structures is surfacing at precisely the moment the institution designed to unify federal financial-crime capability has been abandoned in favour of an unproven customs-based model. Compounding the institutional picture, Germany is assessed to have missed the April 2025 deadline to transpose the EU Sanctions Crime Directive, Directive (EU) 2024/1226, leaving national corporate sanctions-liability standards below the EU-harmonised floor even as EU sanctions apply directly as a matter of law. Read together, these three data points describe a jurisdiction where enforcement capacity in one supervisory lane, BaFin, is intensifying while the structural reform lane of the government has stalled, and where implementation of a harmonising sanctions-crime instrument lags the deadline. This is the cycle lead signal precisely because it is a structural condition, not a single case. #### Other Developments Beneficial-ownership registry integration remains partially built out. The linkage between the Transparenzregister and the Grundbuch, established under the Sanktionsdurchsetzungsgesetz II, is assessed to persist as a stable structural feature of German corporate-transparency architecture. However, the planned Immobilientransaktionsregister, intended to extend transparency into real-estate transactions, is now institutionally unsettled following the collapse of the BBF, which had been slated to anchor it. The registry-linkage claim carries only tier-three sourcing for the live status of the planned register, meaning the assessment of its institutional home should be read as provisional pending confirmation from a primary German source this cycle. Crypto-asset supervision in Germany is tightening ahead of the EU baseline. BaFin compressed the standard eighteen-month MiCA CASP transition window into a hard deadline of 31 December 2025, a materially stricter posture than most EU peers are assessed to have adopted. One visible consequence traced this cycle is Ethena Labs discontinuing German subsidiary operations and declining to pursue MiCA authorisation in Germany following BaFin scrutiny. Both findings are sourced to tier-three material only and are held at Assessed confidence; no tier-two or tier-one corroboration was located this cycle for either the deadline compression or the market-exit outcome. Supervisory enforcement intensity is rising within the existing remit of BaFin. A record forty-five million euro fine against J.P. Morgan SE, imposed in October 2025 for AML control failures including untimely suspicious-activity-report filing, is corroborated across tier-two sources and held at High confidence. This sits alongside the creation by BaFin of a dedicated Anti-Financial-Crime division, effective 1 July 2026, consolidating AML, CTF and unauthorised-business supervision under one structure, also held at High confidence and corroborated by tier-two and tier-three material describing the same reorganisation. #### Cross-Monitor Connections The shell-company sanctions-evasion network carries direct relevance to SCEM conflict-finance and dual-use-procurement tracking, given its delivery of restricted goods to Russian arms manufacturers, a financial-architecture question that SCEM is better positioned to assess for downstream conflict-finance materiality. The missed transposition by Germany of the EU Sanctions Crime Directive is flagged for ESA EU sanctions-enforcement-divergence tracking, since a national implementation gap of this kind bears directly on cross-bloc harmonisation questions ESA monitors structurally rather than episodically. The pattern of BaFin enforcement activity together with the stalled BBF reform is flagged for WDM state-institution-integrity tracking: a national government abandoning its own consolidated financial-crime authority is a state-capacity signal distinct from, but adjacent to, state-capture analysis. The same BaFin enforcement intensity, including the scale of the J.P. Morgan fine, is separately flagged for GMM macro-financial-risk tracking, where wholesale and state-linked banking-sector AML enforcement carries transmission implications beyond the immediate supervisory action. #### Outlook Three regulatory-horizon items frame the medium-term trajectory. The AML Regulation and sixth AML Directive are set to become directly binding on German obliged entities from the third quarter of 2027, alongside a first work programme and supervisory methodology from AMLA expected in the fourth quarter of 2026 ahead of direct supervision of roughly forty cross-border institutions from January 2028. Domestically, the proposed Zollfinanzgerechtigkeitsgesetz, introducing administrative asset seizure for unclear-origin wealth without a criminal predicate, is assessed at low confidence given its early proposed stage and the unresolved question of whether a customs-centred model can replace the scope of the abandoned unified-agency design. The standing key judgments this cycle read as follows. At High confidence, AML/CTF enforcement intensity in Germany is rising within the existing remit of BaFin even as the flagship structural reform has collapsed, producing a bifurcated institutional picture in which capability is consolidating in one supervisory lane while the broader architecture remains unsettled. At Assessed confidence, the compressed MiCA transition timeline is producing measurable market exit, indicating a stricter-than-EU-average crypto supervisory posture. Also at Assessed confidence, the missed transposition of the EU Sanctions Crime Directive constitutes a national-implementation lag leaving German corporate sanctions-liability standards temporarily below the EU-harmonised floor. None of these judgments should be read as forecasts of enforcement outcome; they describe the structural condition observed this cycle. 11 Aug 2026 · fim-2026-08-05 #### Lead Signal The European Banking Authority completed the transfer of all its AML/CFT supervisory mandates to the new Anti-Money Laundering Authority on 1 January 2026, and AMLA has since published draft technical and implementing standards governing how it will select up to forty high-risk cross-border institutions for direct supervision from 2028, with a consultation window that closed 27 January 2026. This sits alongside a parallel structural shift in the beneficial-ownership regime: the AML Regulation moves the EU beneficial-ownership threshold to a flat standard of twenty-five percent or more ownership or control, with full application from 10 July 2027, embedding an Article 25 threshold and an Article 28(1) customer-due-diligence mandate across obliged entities bloc-wide. Read together, these are the most structurally significant EU AML-architecture developments of the year: supervision of Europe's largest cross-border institutions is moving from a purely national model toward a hybrid regime combining the directly applicable AML Regulation, the sixth AML Directive's national transposition layer, and AMLA's own direct and indirect supervisory perimeter, based in Frankfurt. For institutions domiciled in or operating through Germany, this is architecture, not incident: no single enforcement action this cycle matches the long-run significance of the mandate transfer itself. #### Other Developments Sanctions-evasion enforcement in Germany continued at volume. German federal prosecutors arrested five individuals in February 2026 in connection with a procurement network alleged to have exported more than thirty million dollars in dual-use goods to at least twenty-four Russian arms manufacturers since 2022, routed through shell companies; the pattern is corroborated across multiple press sources. Separately, a German public prosecutor's office secured convictions of two individuals for exporting one hundred and eleven luxury cars to Russia in breach of EU sanctions, with twenty million euros confiscated and jail sentences of six years and two years, the latter suspended. Internationally, OFAC added multiple individuals linked to the Ansarallah network to the Specially Designated Nationals List under Counter Terrorism Designations on 16 January 2026; no German-specific implication of that designation was independently verified this cycle, but it forms part of the same global sanctions-architecture picture against which German enforcement activity should be read. Germany's MiCA transition reached its structural deadline. Grandfathered national, 5AMLD-era BaFin crypto-custody licences had to convert to full Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation CASP authorisation by 31 December 2025. BaFin is now the sole CASP licensing authority in Germany under MiCA Articles 60 through 62 from 2026, closing the ambiguity window that had persisted for previously licensed custodians operating under the older national regime. #### Cross-Monitor Connections The dual-use export networks feeding Russian arms manufacturers sit at the intersection of this monitor's sanctions lens and the trade-finance and corporate-opacity concerns tracked by ERM and SCEM: procurement through shell companies is a trade-finance and beneficial-ownership problem before it manifests as a sanctions breach, and the fact that such networks persist notwithstanding sustained, well-publicised German enforcement illustrates how enforcement volume and architectural gap can coexist within the same jurisdiction. Germany's MiCA consolidation is, this cycle, primarily a market-structure and compliance-technology development with limited direct illicit-finance signal, but it expands the population of fully licensed, bank-adjacent obliged entities that AMLA's own eventual direct-supervision selection methodology will need to account for as crypto-asset service providers mature into the standard obliged-entity population. Taken together, the sanctions-evasion and beneficial-ownership-adjacent architecture developments this cycle are two views of the same underlying corporate-opacity problem, even where tracked here as separate domains. #### Outlook The AMLA consultation on its 2028 direct-supervision selection methodology closed 27 January 2026; the next milestone to watch is publication of AMLA's finalised technical standards and its first full work programme as the authority builds out its Frankfurt operations through 2026. The AMLR and sixth AML Directive application date of 10 July 2027 is the next hard deadline for Germany's beneficial-ownership regime, and no Tier-1 domestic transposition text for the accompanying GwG reform, which would bring financial holding companies into scope as obliged entities from 2027, has yet been located. On sanctions, the pattern of sustained prosecutorial activity against dual-use export networks and sanctions-breach schemes this cycle suggests continued enforcement volume is likely, though whether Germany's underlying export-control gatekeeping architecture is itself reformed in response remains an open question this monitor will continue to track alongside the maturing MiCA-licensed crypto-asset sector. Domain intelligence (D1–D8) #### Sanctions Architecture and Evasion The most consequential development for the German sanctions-evasion posture this cycle is prosecutorial rather than architectural in origin, but it exposes a structural weakness that has generated multiple, successive cases. Federal prosecutors disclosed in February 2026 the arrest of five men accused of routing more than thirty million US dollars in dual-use goods to at least twenty-four Russian arms manufacturers since 2022, using a chain of shell companies to disguise the ultimate destination of the exports. The finding is corroborated across independent Washington Post and Kharon reporting of the same arrests and is assessed at High confidence. Separately, German public prosecution authorities secured convictions against two individuals for exporting one hundred and eleven luxury vehicles to Russia in breach of EU sanctions, resulting in confiscation of twenty million euros and custodial sentences of six and two years, the latter suspended, though this finding rests on Tier 4 trade-press sourcing and is assessed rather than confirmed. Continue reading Read together, these two cases anchor the domain-tracker key judgment that Germany functions simultaneously as an enforcer of the EU sanctions regime and, structurally, as an enabler jurisdiction of concern for export-control circumvention, a judgment held at High confidence given the volume and pattern of prosecutorial activity clustering around shell-company export structures. The judgment is deliberately architecture-over-incident in framing: no single prosecution resolves the underlying gap, and the recurrence of similar shell-company and undervaluation patterns across multiple cases this cycle is the more analytically significant signal than any one conviction taken alone. The domain tracker records the German D1 trajectory as escalating rather than stable, reflecting sustained rather than episodic enforcement pressure, and marks the prior baseline as no longer stable. The standing Russian Sanctions-Evasion Architecture tracker situates the arrests and conviction of this cycle within a wider pattern already under observation: a February 2026 ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union on customs seizures, and a separate case involving an alleged front company based in Lubeck, are recorded on the same tracker as contributing to a picture of sustained enforcement activity against a persistent evasion architecture rather than an isolated cluster of unrelated cases. A draft knowledge-base patch generated this cycle proposes updating the standing German D1 position to record that Germany sustained active prosecutorial enforcement against Russia-sanctions-evasion networks this cycle, at High confidence; the patch remains in draft status pending ratification and is presented here as proposed rather than adopted standing position. Beyond Germany, the addition on 16 January 2026 of multiple individuals linked to the Ansarallah network to the Specially Designated Nationals list, under the Counter Terrorism Designations authority of OFAC, is recorded as a global sanctions-architecture development at High confidence, sourced directly to OFAC. No German-specific implication of that designation was independently verified this cycle, and the interpreter has explicitly logged the absence of any parallel designation by the UK sanctions authority as a gap rather than assuming equivalence across regimes. This gap matters for the three-pillar balance this domain is required to maintain: the counter-terrorism-financing pillar risks being read as static this cycle relative to the AML-heavy export-control caseload, when in fact the absence of independently verified corroboration is the honest state of the evidence rather than a finding of no activity. A further coverage gap is recorded on the sanctions-regime-divergence tracker: no new EU, US or UK autonomous-listing divergence event specifically implicating Germany was identified this cycle, and the German posture of implementing EU listings only, without unilateral national designations, is assessed as unchanged, though held at Low confidence given the absence of a positive source confirming stasis rather than mere silence. This distinction, between a confirmed no-change finding and an unconfirmed absence of evidence, is maintained deliberately rather than collapsed into a default assumption of stability. #### Outlook The near-term test for the German D1 posture is whether the pattern of successive shell-company and undervaluation prosecutions produces systemic remediation of the export-control gatekeeping gap, or whether enforcement continues to run reactively behind an evasion architecture that regenerates faster than individual cases can close it. The absence this cycle of a Tier 1 primary source specific to European Council designation activity on the Russia measures referenced in the luxury-car conviction, and the unresolved question of whether the UK sanctions authority will issue a designation paralleling the January action by OFAC against Ansarallah-linked individuals, are the two evidentiary gaps most likely to determine whether the next cycle assessment can move beyond the current mixed enforcement-and-enablement reading. Both gaps are logged in the gaps register rather than treated as resolved absences, consistent with the discipline that a documented gap is preferable to an assumed non-event. #### Beneficial Ownership and Corporate Transparency Germany sits inside the direct perimeter of the EU AML Package, and the most structurally significant development for the German beneficial-ownership posture this cycle is accordingly an EU-level supervisory milestone rather than a domestic legislative change. The European Banking Authority completed the transfer of all its AML and CFT supervisory mandates to the Anti-Money Laundering Authority on 1 January 2026, and AMLA has since published draft technical and implementing standards, open for consultation to 27 January 2026, governing how it will select up to forty high-risk cross-border institutions, potentially including German-domiciled groups, for direct supervision from 2028. This finding is sourced directly to AMLA publication and assessed at High confidence. Continue reading The EU AML Package against which this cycle beneficial-ownership signal should be read is a three-instrument structural architecture rather than a single reform. It comprises the AML Regulation, directly applicable across Member States including Germany without domestic transposition, the sixth AML Directive, which requires transposition on a Member-State-by-Member-State basis, and the AMLA Regulation, which establishes the Anti-Money Laundering Authority itself and its direct and indirect supervisory perimeter over obliged entities. The practical effect of this architecture is a shift of supervisory authority away from purely national bodies such as BaFin, on a shared and hybrid basis, toward a partly EU-level regime, with AMLA assuming direct supervision of the highest-risk cross-border institutions while indirect supervision and coordination extend more broadly across the remaining obliged-entity population. This is a durable structural backdrop against which each cycle beneficial-ownership signal for Germany should be read, rather than a single-cycle development in its own right. Within that backdrop, the German Transparenzregister faces a concrete threshold change under the AML Regulation this cycle: the beneficial-ownership disclosure threshold moves to twenty-five per cent or more, with full application from 10 July 2027, and the European Commission retains power to lower that threshold further for high-risk entity categories. A domestic reform proposal to the German Anti-Money Laundering Act, still resting on Tier 4 sourcing only, would bring financial holding companies into scope as obliged entities from 1 January 2027, though no Tier 1 or Tier 2 primary legislative text for that domestic proposal was located this cycle, and the finding is accordingly assessed rather than confirmed. This sourcing gap is logged explicitly rather than treated as an obstacle to reporting the development at all: the proposal is real enough to track, but its confidence tier reflects the absence of a primary parliamentary source. The AML Regulation-driven threshold revision also carries FATF Recommendation 24 and 25 implications tracked on the standing Beneficial-Ownership Register Status tracker, which records the German Transparenzregister as facing expanded obligations under the incoming Regulation and Directive framework, with register-interconnection changes staged across 2026 and 2027. That tracker holds its overall trajectory as material change this cycle, at Assessed confidence, reflecting the concreteness of the threshold change set against the continuing absence of a primary source for the domestic obliged-entity expansion. The German GwGMeldV mandate, in force from 1 March 2026, requiring fully digital, XML-format suspicious-activity-report filing via the goAML platform, functions as a parallel domestic transparency-infrastructure development, distinct from the beneficial-ownership register itself but relevant to the broader corporate-transparency ecosystem insofar as it affects how German obliged entities interact with the financial intelligence unit. A BaFin enforcement action against a German leasing company, which became legally binding on 5 May 2026 with a seventy-five thousand euro fine for undocumented non-filing decisions and late filing, illustrates the enforcement dimension of that same digital-reporting infrastructure, though this individual enforcement action is read here as illustrative of the broader digitisation requirement rather than as a freestanding beneficial-ownership finding in its own right. Read against the enablement-as-signal principle, the absence this cycle of a documented sixth-Directive transposition vehicle specific to Germany is itself notable: the interpreter has explicitly declined to assume that transposition proceeds on schedule in the absence of a primary source, treating the gap as an open tracked item rather than a presumed non-issue. This caution is consistent with the broader discipline applied across this cycle: a proposed reform without primary-source confirmation is reported as proposed, not as adopted, regardless of how plausible its eventual enactment may appear. #### Outlook The German beneficial-ownership and corporate-transparency posture over the coming cycles will be shaped principally by two dates already fixed on the EU regulatory horizon: the AMLA Level 2 and Level 3 technical standards due by 10 July 2026, and the full application of the AML Regulation and the twenty-five per cent threshold from 10 July 2027. Whether AMLA finalises its direct-supervision selection methodology on schedule, and whether a Tier 1 primary source for the domestic German holding-company reform proposal emerges before the 1 January 2027 target date referenced in current reporting, are the two developments most likely to determine whether the current Assessed-confidence domestic finding can be upgraded in a future cycle. #### Enabler Jurisdictions and Professional Facilitators No development specific to Germany as an enabler jurisdiction, distinct from the shell-company and undervaluation-based export-circumvention pattern already captured under the sanctions-architecture domain, was surfaced this cycle. The domain tracker records the German D3 status as watch rather than material change, with the baseline held stable and the key judgment supporting that reading held at Low confidence, reflecting an absence of dedicated D3 sourcing rather than a confirmed finding of no enabler-jurisdiction activity in Germany. Continue reading This is an honest coverage gap rather than a substantive null finding, and it is logged accordingly in the interpreter gaps register: dedicated searches for Tier D jurisdictions, and more specific enabler-facilitator research for Germany itself, were not independently run within the pooled search budget this cycle. The distinction matters under the enablement-as-signal principle governing this monitor: an absence of enforcement action, or of research coverage, in a jurisdiction previously assessed as carrying enabler-adjacent characteristics is itself potentially significant and should not be silently treated as evidence of stability. The shell-company structures used in the dual-use export network disclosed this cycle, and the professional facilitation implicit in constructing that chain of entities, are the closest this cycle comes to a D3-relevant finding, but they are captured and traced under the sanctions-architecture domain rather than independently corroborated as a distinct enabler-jurisdiction development for Germany. #### Outlook The priority for the coming cycle is closing the dedicated D3 research gap for Germany rather than assuming continuity of the current watch status. Until a dedicated enabler-jurisdiction finding is surfaced or a confirmed no-change assessment is independently sourced, this domain should be read as thin-coverage rather than stable, and the next cumulative update should either resolve or explicitly re-flag this gap. #### Conflict Finance and Extractive-Industry Integrity No German-specific extractive-industry or conflict-finance finding, distinct from the sanctions-evasion and export-control cases captured under the sanctions-architecture domain, was located this cycle. The domain tracker records the German D4 status as watch, with a stable baseline held at Low confidence, and the interpreter has explicitly flagged this as a coverage gap rather than a confirmed no-change assessment: the absence of a finding reflects an absence of located sourcing, not a positive determination that no conflict-finance exposure exists. Continue reading The dual-use export network disclosed this cycle, which routed goods to at least twenty-four Russian arms manufacturers, carries an evident war-economy financing dimension and is flagged for cross-monitor attention on that basis, but it is traced and reported as a sanctions-architecture finding rather than as an independently corroborated extractive-industry or conflict-finance development specific to this domain. This caution reflects the broader discipline applied across this monitor: an unresearched domain is reported honestly as unresearched, rather than filled with adjacent findings repackaged to appear as dedicated coverage. The cross-monitor flag directing the dual-use export finding toward the conflict-finance monitor stands as the only substantive link between this domain and this cycle activity, and it should be read as a routing signal rather than as a German D4 finding in its own right. #### Outlook The priority for the coming cycle is running a dedicated D4 search for Germany rather than continuing to rely on overlap with sanctions-architecture findings. Until a distinct extractive-industry or conflict-finance signal for Germany is independently located, this domain should be read as thin-coverage, and the gap should be re-examined rather than allowed to default into an assumption of stability. #### Crypto, Digital Assets, and Financial Innovation The German transition to the EU Markets in Crypto-Assets framework reached its structural deadline this cycle: grandfathered national, fifth-Directive-era BaFin crypto-custody licences had to convert to full Markets in Crypto-Assets Crypto-Asset Service Provider authorisation by 31 December 2025, and BaFin has been the sole licensing authority for crypto-asset service providers under Articles 60 to 62 of the Regulation from 2026. This finding rests on Tier 4 sourcing only and is accordingly assessed rather than confirmed, notwithstanding its structural significance for the German crypto-asset supervisory landscape. Continue reading This transition closes a period of licensing ambiguity in which crypto-custody providers operating under legacy national authorisation coexisted with the emerging Regulation-based Crypto-Asset Service Provider regime. With the conversion deadline now passed, BaFin functions as the single point of licensing accountability for crypto-asset service providers domiciled in Germany, a consolidation that the standing Crypto and Digital-Asset Integrity tracker records as a material change this cycle, held at Assessed confidence and supported by the domain-tracker key judgment that the transition is improving on the prior trajectory. This domestic licensing consolidation should be read as the primary German-specific development in this domain this cycle, with the broader EU Markets in Crypto-Assets framework and the FATF virtual-asset standards functioning as contextual backdrop rather than as the lead story for the German position. The German BaFin gatekeeping function is the concrete, jurisdiction-specific supervisory fact; the EU-level regulation is the instrument that produced it, but the consolidation of licensing authority within BaFin is the German-specific consequence that this domain tracks. This finding is tagged to the proliferation-financing pillar rather than the anti-money-laundering pillar, a classification that matters under the three-pillar balance discipline this monitor applies: CPF findings are structurally rarer than AML findings in enforcement-volume terms, and the completion of a licensing consolidation with proliferation-financing relevance should not be under-weighted simply because it generates no immediate enforcement action of its own. FATF Recommendation 15, governing virtual assets and virtual-asset service providers, is the relevant standard against which the German transition should be read, and the affected-firm-type scope recorded for this finding is crypto-asset operators specifically, distinguishing it from the cross-sector scope of most other German findings this cycle. Adjacent to the licensing transition, the German GwGMeldV mandate for fully digital, XML-format suspicious-activity-report filing via the goAML platform, in force from 1 March 2026, is relevant to this domain insofar as crypto-asset service providers newly brought within the full authorisation perimeter are also subject to the same domestic reporting-digitisation requirements as other obliged entities, linking the crypto-specific licensing consolidation to the broader German AML-reporting infrastructure upgrade tracked elsewhere this cycle. The wider AML Regulation, due for full application on 10 July 2027, extends anti-money-laundering customer due diligence obligations to crypto-asset service providers on the same footing as other obliged entities, meaning the licensing consolidation completed this cycle under the Markets in Crypto-Assets framework will shortly be joined by a parallel AML customer due diligence layer specific to German crypto-asset operators. This convergence of a licensing perimeter and a due diligence perimeter is the structural direction of travel for this domain over the next two years, and it is this convergence, rather than any single enforcement case, that should anchor the German D5 assessment going forward. No enforcement action against a specific German crypto-asset service provider was identified this cycle, and this absence should be read as consistent with a still-early post-conversion supervisory period rather than as evidence that the new authorisation perimeter is functioning without gaps. #### Outlook The near-term test for the German crypto-integrity posture is whether BaFin sole-gatekeeper status under the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation produces visible supervisory action, such as licence refusals, conditions, or enforcement, against crypto-asset service providers that fail to meet the converted authorisation standard, or whether the transition remains a largely administrative consolidation without a visible enforcement dimension in the near term. Whether a Tier 1 or Tier 2 primary BaFin source for the completed conversion becomes available in a future cycle, upgrading the current Assessed-confidence finding, is the second development most likely to shape how this domain evolves. #### Compliance Technology and Active Defence The principal regulatory-technology and supervisory-technology signal for Germany this cycle is the GwGMeldV mandate, in force from 1 March 2026, requiring fully digital, XML-format suspicious-activity-report filing via the goAML platform. This digitisation requirement is anchored to a primary German financial-intelligence-unit and customs source and is treated as a structural compliance-technology development rather than an incidental process change, since it reshapes how all German obliged entities interact with the financial intelligence unit going forward. A BaFin enforcement action against a German leasing company, legally binding from 5 May 2026 with a seventy-five thousand euro fine for undocumented decisions not to file suspicious activity reports and for late filing, illustrates the compliance consequence of failing to meet reporting-infrastructure expectations, though the fine detail itself rests on lower-tier trade press and should be read as illustrative rather than as an independently verified compliance-technology finding in its own right. Continue reading The domain tracker records the German D6 status as watch rather than material change, reflecting that no distinct artificial-intelligence or machine-learning-specific supervisory guidance development was independently evidenced this cycle beyond the GwGMeldV digitisation mandate itself. This is logged as a coverage limitation rather than a confirmed absence of AI or machine-learning supervisory activity in Germany, consistent with the discipline of distinguishing an unresearched gap from a positively confirmed non-event. #### Outlook The near-term question for this domain is whether the GwGMeldV digitisation mandate produces measurable improvement in suspicious-activity-report quality and financial-intelligence-unit processing speed, or whether it functions primarily as a compliance-cost shift onto obliged entities without a corresponding supervisory-effectiveness gain. A dedicated search for German artificial-intelligence or machine-learning supervisory guidance, not undertaken this cycle within the available research budget, should be prioritised in the coming cycle to determine whether this domain genuinely remains quiet or whether coverage alone has been thin. #### AML/CTF Regime Germanys AML/CTF and prudential supervisory apparatus produced three discrete enforcement actions in the 18 to 23 October 2026 window, each applying an existing power rather than signalling any change to the framework itself. BaFin withdrew the banking licence of Bank Saderat Iran's Hamburg branch and ordered it into wind-down, a licensing action against an Iranian-linked institution that sits adjacent to sanctions-related market-exclusion practice even though it is framed as a prudential and authorisation matter. The same regulator separately fined an unnamed natural person a total of EUR 12,000, split across two EUR 6,000 penalties, for breaching notification duties under the Wertpapierhandelsgesetz, a securities-disclosure obligation distinct from the core AML/CTF perimeter but enforced by the same supervisory authority. A third action, a public warning against an entity calling itself Mineral Resources Holdings and Commercial Investment Bureau operating through mraib.com, addressed the offering of banking business without the authorisation German banking law requires. Continue reading Taken together these three actions describe continuity rather than change. The licence withdrawal is the most structurally significant of the three because it removes a licensed banking foothold for an institution connected to Iran, a jurisdiction whose financial institutions have faced sustained supervisory scrutiny in Germany and across the EU. The notification-duty fines and the unlicensed-activity warning are of a more routine character: the former is a standing securities-market transparency tool, and the latter belongs to a familiar category of consumer protection action against unidentified operators soliciting business without the required licence. None of the three actions reflects a change to the GwG, KWG or related instruments; each is an application of standing supervisory authority. The instrument layer underlying sanctions, AML and market-abuse enforcement in Germany was not itself searched this period, so this account is limited to the enforcement actions BaFin made public rather than to any change in the underlying legal texts. #### Outlook The picture for Germany in this area over the near term is one of steady, active supervision rather than reform. The more consequential open question is what further disclosure accompanies the wind-down of Bank Saderat Iran's Hamburg branch, since a formal wind-down order of this kind sometimes surfaces additional detail about the scope of an institutions historical activity as the process proceeds. Whether BaFin's warning against the mraib.com operation leads to any identification of the entity behind it, or to a wider pattern of similar unlicensed solicitation being named, is a second thread worth tracking without anticipating any particular outcome. Absent a new instrument-level development, Germany's AML/CTF regime should be read as stable, with this periods activity sitting entirely within established enforcement practice. #### Commercial Activity The standing commercial-activity item for Germany this cycle is UniCredit S.p.A.'s formal application for European Commission antitrust clearance of its proposed acquisition of Commerzbank AG, announced 12 October 2026. UniCredit already holds an economic interest representing approximately 47.6 percent of Commerzbank's share capital, and the European Commission's merger-control review will assess the transaction's effect on market power in corporate lending, including financing to the German Mittelstand, in deposit-taking, and in other banking products. The amount and currency of the underlying transaction have not been publicly disclosed, and the filing is reported through trade-press commentary rather than through the Commission's own notification record. Continue reading From a financial-integrity perspective, a transaction of this scale and structure is a commercial development to be read architecturally rather than as an incident: a successful acquisition would materially increase concentration in German banking, which has downstream relevance to the beneficial-ownership and group-structure mapping that obliged entities and supervisors maintain for large cross-border banking groups, and to the correspondent and corridor relationships Commerzbank maintains on behalf of its corporate clients. No financial-crime-specific finding attaches to the filing itself this cycle; it is tracked here as the standing structural development in German banking-sector commercial activity. #### Outlook The matter to watch is the progress of the European Commission's merger-control review and whether the Commission's assessment of market power in corporate lending and deposits surfaces any conditions bearing on group-structure transparency or correspondent-banking access as the review proceeds. Regulatory horizon Proposed 1 Jan 2027 · ±quarter ### Zollfinanzgerechtigkeitsgesetz — customs-centred asset-seizure regime (BBF replacement) Introduces administrative asset seizure for unclear-origin wealth without a criminal predicate, replacing the abandoned BBF concept. [Source](https://rechtsanwaltkaufmann.de/wirtschaftsstrafrecht/bundesamt-finanzkriminalitaet-bbf) In Force Pending 2027-Q3 · ±quarter ### AMLR / 6AMLD application date AMLR becomes directly applicable, displacing fragmented national AML rulebooks for in-scope obligations. [European Union Source](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1624/oj) 2 dated · 4 pending date · baseline fim-2026-07-08 Role action cards MLRO ### BaFin withdrew the banking licence of an Iranian banks German branch and fined an individual for securities-notification breaches this period. The licence withdrawal against Bank Saderat Irans Hamburg branch is the clearest sanctions-adjacent supervisory event of the period and warrants awareness for institutions with any historical correspondent exposure to that entity. The notification-duty fines are a reminder that BaFin continues to actively enforce disclosure obligations distinct from the core AML perimeter. 2 evidence refs Compliance ### Three BaFin enforcement actions this period, including a licence withdrawal and an unlicensed-banking warning, reflect active ongoing supervision rather than new rules. None of the three actions changes a compliance obligation, but each confirms BaFin's continued willingness to use licensing withdrawal, monetary fines, and public warnings as live enforcement tools. Firms with any nexus to the named entities should note the actions. 3 evidence refs Legal ### BaFin's licence withdrawal against Bank Saderat Iran's Hamburg branch carries a formal wind-down order. The wind-down order creates a defined legal process for the branch's exit from the German market; counterparties with contractual exposure to the branch face a changed legal posture as the order proceeds. 1 evidence refs Board ### Germanys financial supervisor removed the licence of an Iranian-linked bank branch and issued two other enforcement actions this period. None of the three actions reflects a change to Germany's regulatory architecture; they represent continuity of supervisory posture rather than a strategic-level shift requiring board attention beyond awareness. 1 evidence refs CTO ### No material change for this persona this cycle. No material change for this persona this cycle Risk ### BaFin's three enforcement actions this period sit within established risk categories rather than signalling a new typology. The licence withdrawal against an Iranian-linked bank branch is the most structurally significant of the three for exposure-concentration purposes; the other two actions are routine disclosure and unlicensed-activity enforcement. 3 evidence refs Operations ### No material change for this persona this cycle. No material change for this persona this cycle Audit ### BaFin's public warning against an unlicensed banking-business website identifies a specific operator name for monitoring purposes. The warning against Mineral Resources Holdings and Commercial Investment Bureau and the mraib.com website provides a documented reference point for any audit trail check against unauthorised-entity screening lists. 1 evidence refs Standing trackers (T1–T6) Tracker Status Note T1 · Sanctions Exposure material_change Ownership-aggregation rule and new universal reporting duty. T2 · Beneficial Ownership Transparency stable T3 · Enabler/Gatekeeper Supervision stable T4 · Conflict Finance / Supply Chain stable T5 · Crypto / Digital Assets stable T6 · Sanctions Regime Divergence stable Registers ### Enforcement actions - 28 Jan 2026 - 30 Jan 2026 - 17 Apr 2026 - 2 Feb 2026 - 5 Nov 2025 - 28 Jan 2026 - 30 Jan 2026 - 17 Apr 2026 - 2 Feb 2026 - 5 Nov 2025 - 5 May 2026 - 2 Mar 2026 - 1 Oct 2025 - 14 Jun 2026 - 15 Sep 2026 - 11 Sep 2026 - 15 Sep 2026 - 8 Oct 2026 - 22 Oct 2026 - 21 Oct 2026 - 21 Oct 2026 - German prosecutors searched Deutsche Bank offices in Frankfurt and Berlin over a money-laundering probe into historic transactions (2013-2018) linked to firms tied to sanctioned oligarch Roman Abramovich, including alleged delayed suspicious activity reporting. 28 Jan 2026 - A previously unreported second AML probe against Deutsche Bank was confirmed by prosecutors, originating from a May 2025 search whose seized documents produced new investigative leads. 30 Jan 2026 - Deutsche Bank reported cases of potential sanctions breaches involving Russian clients to Germany's central bank, the Bundesbank, indicating internal identification of possible compliance failures. 17 Apr 2026 - Germany's federal prosecutor ordered the arrest of five men for allegedly exporting goods worth at least EUR 30 million to Russia in breach of EU sanctions on dual-use/controlled items. 2 Feb 2026 - German police made multiple arrests breaking up an alleged $350 million fraud and money-laundering network operating through payment firms, with suspicion that some staff, including executives, knowingly cooperated with fraudsters. 5 Nov 2025 ### Sanctions changes - 23 Oct 2025 - 23 Apr 2026 - 23 Oct 2025 - 23 Apr 2026 - 16 Jan 2026 - The EU's 19th sanctions package (23 Oct 2025) targeted Russian energy, third-country banks and crypto providers, including the Grinex exchange and A7-linked entities, directly applicable to Germany as an EU Member State via BaFin/Bundesbank enforcement. 23 Oct 2025 - The EU's 20th sanctions package (23 Apr 2026) moved from entity-level to sector-level designations, banning any new Russian crypto-asset service provider and activating, for the first time, the EU's anti-circumvention instrument against third-country infrastructure; crypto measures apply from 24 May 2026 and bind German-licensed CASPs and banks. 23 Apr 2026 ### Regulatory horizon (register) - AMLA Work Programme / build-out - AMLR / 6AMLD application date - Zollfinanzgerechtigkeitsgesetz — customs-centred asset-seizure regime (BBF replacement) - AMLA Work Programme / build-out - AMLA direct-supervision preparatory milestone - AMLR / 6AMLD full application - AMLA direct supervision of ~40 selected financial institutions - AML Regulation (AMLR) direct application across Germany - 6AMLD transposition into German national law - AMLA direct-supervision selection and transfer, Frankfurt seat - Germany's next FATF progress report / 5th-round evaluation ### Active schemes - Dual-use export circumvention networks routing goods to Russia - 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[https://www.bafin.de/EN/die-bafin/die-bafin_node_en.html](https://www.bafin.de/EN/die-bafin/die-bafin_node_en.html) - [https://legal.pwc.de/en/news/articles/bafin-publishes-its-2026-risks-in-focus](https://legal.pwc.de/en/news/articles/bafin-publishes-its-2026-risks-in-focus) - [https://rechtsanwaltkaufmann.de/wirtschaftsstrafrecht/bundesamt-finanzkriminalitaet-bbf](https://rechtsanwaltkaufmann.de/wirtschaftsstrafrecht/bundesamt-finanzkriminalitaet-bbf) - [https://www.bundestag.de/presse/hib/kurzmeldungen-982360](https://www.bundestag.de/presse/hib/kurzmeldungen-982360) - [https://iclg.com/practice-areas/anti-money-laundering-laws-and-regulations/germany/](https://iclg.com/practice-areas/anti-money-laundering-laws-and-regulations/germany/) - [https://www.fatf-gafi.org/en/countries/detail/Germany.html](https://www.fatf-gafi.org/en/countries/detail/Germany.html) - [https://checklynx.com/en/resources/knowledge-base/fatf-grey-list](https://checklynx.com/en/resources/knowledge-base/fatf-grey-list) - [https://yellow.com/news/germany-crypto-regulation-startups](https://yellow.com/news/germany-crypto-regulation-startups) - [https://www.cyfrin.io/blog/mica-regulation-explained-a-guide-to-eu-crypto-compliance](https://www.cyfrin.io/blog/mica-regulation-explained-a-guide-to-eu-crypto-compliance) - [https://www.bundesfinanzministerium.de/Content/EN/Standardartikel/Topics/Europe/War-in-Ukraine/implementation-of-the-sanctions-on-russia.html](https://www.bundesfinanzministerium.de/Content/EN/Standardartikel/Topics/Europe/War-in-Ukraine/implementation-of-the-sanctions-on-russia.html) - [https://germancomplianceinstitute.com/blogs/news/german-money-laundering-law-gwg-explained-key-rules-you-must-know-2026-edition](https://germancomplianceinstitute.com/blogs/news/german-money-laundering-law-gwg-explained-key-rules-you-must-know-2026-edition) - [https://iclg.com/practice-areas/anti-money-laundering-laws-and-regulations/germany/amp](https://iclg.com/practice-areas/anti-money-laundering-laws-and-regulations/germany/amp) - [https://eco.com/support/en/articles/14814632-mica-stablecoin-regulation-2026-update](https://eco.com/support/en/articles/14814632-mica-stablecoin-regulation-2026-update) - [https://www.techtimes.com/articles/322828/20260803/germanys-bafin-orders-nordlb-fix-aml-data-backlog-landesbank-crackdown.htm](https://www.techtimes.com/articles/322828/20260803/germanys-bafin-orders-nordlb-fix-aml-data-backlog-landesbank-crackdown.htm) - [FATF](https://www.fatf-gafi.org/en/publications/Fatfgeneral/outcomes-fatf-plenary-june-2026.html) - [RegPulse](https://www.regpulse.io/blog/eu-aml-package-2026) - [FATF](https://www.fatf-gafi.org/en/publications/High-risk-and-other-monitored-jurisdictions/increased-monitoring-february-2026.html) - [independent AML/OSINT commentary](https://drdavidwhitehouse.substack.com/p/why-is-cambodia-not-on-faft-grey) - [Ondato](https://ondato.com/blog/6th-anti-money-laundering-directive/) - [Financial Regulations EU](https://financialregulations.eu/blog/eu-aml-package-amla-amlr-guide) - [Crassula](https://crassula.io/guides/licenses/germany-crypto-custody/) - [Regmantle](https://regmantle.com/blog/germany.html) - [German Compliance Institute](https://germancomplianceinstitute.com/blogs/news/german-money-laundering-law-gwg-explained-key-rules-you-must-know-2026-edition) - [hoge.gg](https://hoge.gg/de/mica-umsetzung-2026-bafin-schnitt-esma-machtprobe/) - [EUR-Lex](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1624/oj) - [AML Intelligence](https://www.amlintelligence.com/2026/10/news-bafin-gives-deutsche-bank-new-deadlines-to-remedy-aml-controls-lender-reports-significant-progress/) - [BaFin](https://www.bafin.de/EN/die-bafin/die-bafin_node_en.html) - [RegReportingDesk](https://regreportingdesk.com/bafin-amla-guidelines-esa-table-circulars/) - [AMLA](https://www.amla.europa.eu/document/download/e7233c6f-9269-474f-9afc-124136546981_en?filename=Press+Release+-+AMLA+takes+next+step+toward+2027+selection+of+entities.pdf) - [Behind Fintech](https://behindfintech.substack.com/p/behind-fintech-daily-12-october-2026) - [Bitcoin.com (DE)](https://news.bitcoin.com/de/regulation-and-legal/bitcoin-de-bafin-verweigert-mica-zulassung-handel-ruht/) - [https://www.bafin.de/DE/unternehmen-maerkte/aufsicht/alle-unternehmen/geldwaesche/geldwaesche_node.html](https://www.bafin.de/DE/unternehmen-maerkte/aufsicht/alle-unternehmen/geldwaesche/geldwaesche_node.html) - [https://www.fatf-gafi.org/en/calendars/assessments.html](https://www.fatf-gafi.org/en/calendars/assessments.html) - [https://www.rosepartner.de/blog/geldwaeschepraevention-2026-meldeverordnung-sorgfaltspflicht.html](https://www.rosepartner.de/blog/geldwaeschepraevention-2026-meldeverordnung-sorgfaltspflicht.html) - [https://www.kerberos-compliance.com/wissen/blog/geldwschepraevention-2026-diese-fristen-und-neuerungen-muessen-verpflichtete-kennen](https://www.kerberos-compliance.com/wissen/blog/geldwschepraevention-2026-diese-fristen-und-neuerungen-muessen-verpflichtete-kennen) - [https://www.onvista.de/news/2026/10-06-eqs-adhoc-bitcoin-group-se-bafin-verweigert-beantragte-micar-zulassung-der-futurum-bank-ag-0-37-26561212](https://www.onvista.de/news/2026/10-06-eqs-adhoc-bitcoin-group-se-bafin-verweigert-beantragte-micar-zulassung-der-futurum-bank-ag-0-37-26561212) - [https://www.bafin.de/](https://www.bafin.de/) - [https://certaby.com/knowledge/sanctions-ownership-and-control-50-percent-rule](https://certaby.com/knowledge/sanctions-ownership-and-control-50-percent-rule) - [https://financialcrime.lu/2025/09/11/EU-Sanctions-Helpdesk-Ownership-and-Control/](https://financialcrime.lu/2025/09/11/EU-Sanctions-Helpdesk-Ownership-and-Control/) - [https://schulz-beratung.de/awg-novelle-2026-40-mio-bussgeld-compliance-exportkontrolle/](https://schulz-beratung.de/awg-novelle-2026-40-mio-bussgeld-compliance-exportkontrolle/) - [https://www.sk-berater.com/fileadmin/user_upload/Content/%C3%84nderungen_des_Au%C3%9Fenwirtschaftsgesetzes_2026_%E2%80%93_versch%C3%A4rfte_Regelungen.pdf](https://www.sk-berater.com/fileadmin/user_upload/Content/%C3%84nderungen_des_Au%C3%9Fenwirtschaftsgesetzes_2026_%E2%80%93_versch%C3%A4rfte_Regelungen.pdf) - [https://www.awv-meldepflicht.de/ratgeber/awv-meldepflicht](https://www.awv-meldepflicht.de/ratgeber/awv-meldepflicht) - [https://beglaubigt.de/blog/transparenzregister](https://beglaubigt.de/blog/transparenzregister) - [https://www.tappmeier.de/transparenzregister/](https://www.tappmeier.de/transparenzregister/) - [https://onlinebilanz.de/transparenzregister-pflicht-eintragung-bussgeld/](https://onlinebilanz.de/transparenzregister-pflicht-eintragung-bussgeld/) - [https://www.stmi.bayern.de/media/a-z/geldwaesche/Basismerkblatt-gwg.pdf](https://www.stmi.bayern.de/media/a-z/geldwaesche/Basismerkblatt-gwg.pdf) - [https://www.wpk.de/fileadmin/documents/Beruf/Geldwaesche/WPK-Bekaempfung_der_Geldwaesche-Anwendungshinweise.pdf](https://www.wpk.de/fileadmin/documents/Beruf/Geldwaesche/WPK-Bekaempfung_der_Geldwaesche-Anwendungshinweise.pdf) - [https://lxgesetze.de/gwg/15](https://lxgesetze.de/gwg/15) - [https://mweke.brandenburg.de/media/bb1.a.3814.de/Basisinformation_GwG.pdf](https://mweke.brandenburg.de/media/bb1.a.3814.de/Basisinformation_GwG.pdf) - [https://lxgesetze.de/gwg/17](https://lxgesetze.de/gwg/17) - [https://www.buzer.de/17_GwG.htm](https://www.buzer.de/17_GwG.htm) - [https://dejure.org/gesetze/GwG/2.html](https://dejure.org/gesetze/GwG/2.html) - [https://www.rak-hamburg.de/f/53ae352f21.pdf](https://www.rak-hamburg.de/f/53ae352f21.pdf) - [https://www.brak.de/anwaltschaft/berufsrecht/geldwaeschepraevention/](https://www.brak.de/anwaltschaft/berufsrecht/geldwaeschepraevention/) - [https://paytechlaw.com/finanzkriminalitaetsbekaempfungsgesetz/](https://paytechlaw.com/finanzkriminalitaetsbekaempfungsgesetz/) - [https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/lksg/BJNR295910021.html](https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/lksg/BJNR295910021.html) - [https://dcycle.io/de/blog/lksg/](https://dcycle.io/de/blog/lksg/) - [https://www.bafin.de/SharedDocs/Veroeffentlichungen/DE/Fachartikel/2024/fa_bj_0701_MiCAR.html](https://www.bafin.de/SharedDocs/Veroeffentlichungen/DE/Fachartikel/2024/fa_bj_0701_MiCAR.html) - [https://hoge.gg/de/mica-deutschland-2026-bafin-casp-lizenzen-sonderweg/](https://hoge.gg/de/mica-deutschland-2026-bafin-casp-lizenzen-sonderweg/) - [https://www.anwalt.de/rechtstipps/kmag-was-das-kryptomaerkteaufsichtsgesetz-fuer-casps-in-deutschland-bedeutet-254683.html](https://www.anwalt.de/rechtstipps/kmag-was-das-kryptomaerkteaufsichtsgesetz-fuer-casps-in-deutschland-bedeutet-254683.html) - [https://www.traub.legal/themen/bank-kapitalmarktrecht/kryptoverwahrung-erlaubnispflicht-micar/](https://www.traub.legal/themen/bank-kapitalmarktrecht/kryptoverwahrung-erlaubnispflicht-micar/) - [https://www.anwalt.de/rechtstipps/micar-lizenz-deutschland-2026-der-vollstaendige-leitfaden-fuer-krypto-anbieter-269321.html](https://www.anwalt.de/rechtstipps/micar-lizenz-deutschland-2026-der-vollstaendige-leitfaden-fuer-krypto-anbieter-269321.html) - [https://nexvyra.de/fakten/bafin-kryptoverwahrgeschaeft-erlaubnis.html](https://nexvyra.de/fakten/bafin-kryptoverwahrgeschaeft-erlaubnis.html) - [https://www.finance-loop.net/knowledge-hub/travel-rule/](https://www.finance-loop.net/knowledge-hub/travel-rule/) - [https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/DE/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX%3A32023R1113](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/DE/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX%3A32023R1113) - [https://dev.to/viktoriia_mykhalchuk/the-eus-zero-threshold-crypto-travel-rule-what-small-transfers-require-28g9](https://dev.to/viktoriia_mykhalchuk/the-eus-zero-threshold-crypto-travel-rule-what-small-transfers-require-28g9) - [Bundesministerium der Justiz (gesetze-im-internet.de)](https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/gwg_2017/BJNR182210017.html) - [Bundesministerium der Justiz (gesetze-im-internet.de)](https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/awg_2013/BJNR148210013.html) - [BaFin](https://www.bafin.de/DE/die-bafin/ueber-die-bafin/aufgaben/wertpapieraufsicht/wertpapieraufsicht_node.html) - [lxgesetze.de (GwG consolidated text)](https://lxgesetze.de/gwg/10) - [lxgesetze.de](https://lxgesetze.de/gwg/15) - [lxgesetze.de](https://lxgesetze.de/gwg/17) - [Kerberos Compliance](https://www.kerberos-compliance.com/wissen/blog/verdachtsmeldungen-nach-43-gwg-was-die-bafin-fiu-orientierungshilfe-konkret-bedeutet) - [ccompliance.de](https://www.ccompliance.de/geldwaesche-verdachtsmeldung-pflicht-fiu/) - [Bundesministerium der Justiz (gesetze-im-internet.de)](https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/gwg_2017/__47.html) - [Bundesministerium der Justiz (gesetze-im-internet.de)](https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/gwg_2017/__56.html) - [SK Berater](https://www.sk-berater.com/fileadmin/user_upload/Content/%C3%84nderungen_des_Au%C3%9Fenwirtschaftsgesetzes_2026_%E2%80%93_versch%C3%A4rfte_Regelungen.pdf) - [Schulz Beratung](https://schulz-beratung.de/awg-novelle-2026-40-mio-bussgeld-compliance-exportkontrolle/) - [awv-meldepflicht.de](https://www.awv-meldepflicht.de/ratgeber/awv-meldepflicht) - [ccompliance.de](https://www.ccompliance.de/directors-dealings-closed-period-art-19-mar/) - [Kanzlei Tholl](https://kanzlei-tholl.de/blog/blog-aufsichtspflichtverletzung-130-owig.html) - [anwalt.de](https://www.anwalt.de/rechtstipps/kmag-was-das-kryptomaerkteaufsichtsgesetz-fuer-casps-in-deutschland-bedeutet-254683.html) - [anwalt.de](https://www.anwalt.de/rechtstipps/micar-lizenz-deutschland-2026-der-vollstaendige-leitfaden-fuer-krypto-anbieter-269321.html) - [nexvyra.de](https://nexvyra.de/fakten/bafin-kryptoverwahrgeschaeft-erlaubnis.html) - [Legal Tribune Online (LTO)](https://www.lto.de/recht/nachrichten/n/geldwaesche-dummy) - [BaFin](https://www.bafin.de/SharedDocs/Veroeffentlichungen/DE/Rundschreiben/2018/emittentenleitfaden/Modul3/Kapitel2/Kapitel2_2/Kapitel2_2_3/kapitel2_2_3_artikel.html) - [lawplayer.com](https://lawplayer.com/de/article/gii-kredwg/%C2%A725m) - [Wikipedia](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Briefkastenbank) - [Bundesministerium der Justiz (gesetze-im-internet.de)](https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/hinschg/BJNR08C0B0023.html) - [ccompliance.de](https://www.ccompliance.de/unternehmensstrafrecht-deutschland-ueberblick/) - [lawcode.eu](https://www.lawcode.eu/blog/lieferkettensorgfaltspflichtengesetz/) - [Rose Partner](https://www.rosepartner.de/blog/geldwaeschepraevention-2026-meldeverordnung-sorgfaltspflicht.html) - [Germany](https://www.fatf-gafi.org/en/countries/detail/Germany.html) - [Mutual Evaluation of Germany](https://www.fatf-gafi.org/en/publications/Mutualevaluations/Mutualevaluationofgermany.html) - [Mutual Evaluations](https://www.fatf-gafi.org/en/topics/mutual-evaluations.html) - [Consolidated assessment ratings](https://www.fatf-gafi.org/en/publications/Mutualevaluations/Assessment-ratings.html) - [Assessments](https://www.fatf-gafi.org/en/calendars/assessments.html) - [Publications](https://www.fatf-gafi.org/en/publications.html) - [Consolidated Processes and Procedures for Mutual Evaluations and Follow-Up Universal Procedures](https://www.fatf-gafi.org/en/publications/Fatfgeneral/Universal-procedures.html) - [The FATF Recommendations](https://www.fatf-gafi.org/en/publications/Fatfrecommendations/Fatf-recommendations.html) - [High-risk and other monitored jurisdictions](https://www.fatf-gafi.org/en/topics/high-risk-and-other-monitored-jurisdictions.html) - [Outcomes of meetings](https://www.fatf-gafi.org/en/the-fatf/outcomes-of-meetings.html) - [Germany's measures to combat money laundering and terrorist financing](https://www.fatf-gafi.org/en/publications/Mutualevaluations/Mer-germany-2022.html) - [GERMANY 1. How to find out if a natural or legal person ...](https://www.unodc.org/documents/corruption/G20-Anti-Corruption-Resources/G20-Step-by-step-guides-on-nternational-cooperation-and-asset-recovery/Asset-Tracing-Country-Profiles/Germany.pdf) - [1 Germany Implementing the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy](https://www.un.org/en/ga/sixth/80/int_terrorism/germany_e.pdf) - [Deutsche Bank Faces Other AML Probe, German Prosecutors Confirm - Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-30/deutsche-bank-faces-other-aml-probe-german-prosecutors-confirm-ml11lndl) - [Anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism at international level - Finance](https://finance.ec.europa.eu/financial-crime/anti-money-laundering-and-countering-financing-terrorism-international-level_en) - [Germany's progress in strengthening measures to tackle money laundering and terrorist financing](https://www.fatf-gafi.org/en/publications/Mutualevaluations/germany-fur-2023.html) - [Financial Action Task Force Identifies Jurisdictions with Anti-Money Laundering, Combating the Financing of Terrorism, and Counter-Proliferation Finance Deficiencies | FinCEN.gov](https://www.fincen.gov/news/news-releases/financial-action-task-force-identifies-jurisdictions-anti-money-laundering-5) - [Alerts/Advisories/Notices/Bulletins/Fact Sheets | FinCEN.gov](https://www.fincen.gov/resources/advisoriesbulletinsfact-sheets) - [Frankfurt to host the EU’s new anti-money laundering authority (AMLA) - Consilium](https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2024/02/22/frankfurt-to-host-the-eus-new-anti-money-laundering-authority-amla/) - [Commission welcomes the selection of Frankfurt as the seat for the Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism](https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_972) - [Anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism overview - Finance](https://finance.ec.europa.eu/financial-crime/anti-money-laundering-and-countering-financing-terrorism-overview_en) - [Anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism at EU level - Finance](https://finance.ec.europa.eu/financial-crime/anti-money-laundering-and-countering-financing-terrorism-eu-level_en) - [About AMLA - Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism](https://finance.ec.europa.eu/financial-crime/amla/about-amla_en) - [Timeline: EU action against money laundering and terrorist financing - Consilium](https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/fight-against-terrorist-financing/timeline/) - [FAQs - Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism](https://finance.ec.europa.eu/financial-crime/amla/frequently-asked-questions_en) - [Anti-money laundering: Council and Parliament agree on procedure to select seat for new authority - Consilium](https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2023/12/18/anti-money-laundering-council-and-parliament-agree-on-procedure-to-select-seat-for-new-authority/) - [Anti-money laundering: Council adopts package of rules - Consilium](https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2024/05/30/anti-money-laundering-council-adopts-package-of-rules/) - [Questions and Answers: The new EU Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA)](https://finance.ec.europa.eu/document/download/61cf5a0d-0e5d-43e2-876a-8e68e45c7f1f_en?filename=240424-anti-money-laundering-faqs_en_0.pdf) - [Exporting dual-use items - Trade and Economic Security](https://policy.trade.ec.europa.eu/help-exporters-and-importers/exporting-dual-use-items_en) - [Germany Arrests Five Over Sanctions-Busting Exports to Russia](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-02/germany-arrests-five-over-sanctions-busting-exports-to-russia) - [Russian Harmful Foreign Activities Sanctions | Office of Foreign Assets Control](https://ofac.treasury.gov/sanctions-programs-and-country-information/russian-harmful-foreign-activities-sanctions) - [1 Preventing Russian Export Control and Sanctions Evasion:](https://finance.ec.europa.eu/document/download/ae2e63e2-4c4d-4f77-9757-c408ddbcede1_en?filename=240924-preventing-russian-export-control-sanctions-evasion+.pdf) - [EU sanctions against Russia: questions and answers - Consilium](https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/sanctions-against-russia-explained/) - [Sanctions Programs and Country Information | Office of Foreign Assets Control](https://ofac.treasury.gov/sanctions-programs-and-country-information) - [Preventing Russian export control and sanctions evasion - Updated guidance for industry - Finance](https://finance.ec.europa.eu/publications/preventing-russian-export-control-and-sanctions-evasion-updated-guidance-industry_en) - [EU adopts 20th package of sanctions against Russia - Finance](https://finance.ec.europa.eu/news/eu-adopts-20th-package-sanctions-against-russia-2026-04-23_en) - [Timeline - EU sanctions against Russia - Consilium](https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/sanctions-against-russia/timeline-sanctions-against-russia/) - [The EU's 20th sanctions package targets the architecture of crypto sanctions evasion](https://www.elliptic.co/blog/eu-20th-sanctions-package-targets-the-architecture-of-crypto-sanctions-evasion) - [Civil Penalties and Enforcement Information | Office of Foreign Assets Control](https://ofac.treasury.gov/civil-penalties-and-enforcement-information) - [Enforcement Actions | FinCEN.gov](https://www.fincen.gov/news/enforcement-actions) - [Mutual Evaluation of Germany](https://www.fatf-gafi.org/en/publications/mutualevaluations/documents/mutualevaluationofgermany.html) - [MUTUAL EVALUATION REPORT OF GERMANY](https://www.fatf-gafi.org/content/dam/fatf-gafi/mer/Mutual-Evaluation-Report-Germany-2022.pdf) - [Germany Uncovers $350 Million Fraud Tied to Payment Firms - Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-05/germany-makes-arrests-in-fraud-case-that-ensnared-payment-firms) - [Report: German Real Estate is a Money Laundering Haven | OCCRP](https://www.occrp.org/en/news/report-german-real-estate-is-a-money-laundering-haven) - [A Small-Scale Con Exposes Deutsche Bank’s Lack of Oversight | OCCRP](https://www.occrp.org/en/project/the-fincen-files/a-small-scale-con-exposes-deutsche-banks-lack-of-oversight) - [German Police Raid Property Tied to Russian Oligarch Alisher Usmanov; Tax Evasion and Money Laundering Suspected | OCCRP](https://www.occrp.org/en/project/russian-asset-tracker/german-police-raid-residence-of-russian-oligarch-alisher-usmanov-tax-evasion-and-money-laundering-suspected) - [Report: German Real Estate is a Money Laundering Haven](https://www.occrp.org/en/27-ccwatch/cc-watch-briefs/9022-report-german-real-estate-is-a-money-laundering-haven) - 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[European Commission (DG FISMA)](https://finance.ec.europa.eu/financial-crime/anti-money-laundering-and-countering-financing-terrorism-eu-level_en) - [Council of the European Union (Consilium)](https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/sanctions-against-russia/timeline-sanctions-against-russia/) - [Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-28/deutsche-bank-offices-inspected-by-frankfurt-prosecutor) - [OCCRP / Transparency International](https://www.occrp.org/en/news/report-german-real-estate-is-a-money-laundering-haven) - [Elliptic](https://www.elliptic.co/blog/eu-20th-sanctions-package-targets-the-architecture-of-crypto-sanctions-evasion) - [Germany national report to UN Sixth Committee](https://www.un.org/en/ga/sixth/80/int_terrorism/germany_e.pdf) - [UNODC / G20 Anti-Corruption Resources](https://www.unodc.org/documents/corruption/G20-Anti-Corruption-Resources/G20-Step-by-step-guides-on-nternational-cooperation-and-asset-recovery/Asset-Tracing-Country-Profiles/Germany.pdf) Coverage gaps fim-int-2026-07-07-G001: Baseline provenance states an 18-mo… fim-int-2026-07-07-G001: Baseline provenance states an 18-month lookback window ending 2026-07-05 but every enforcement action and recent development cited falls within a 3-6 month window (Nov 2025-Apr 2026); evidence from the first 12 months of the stated window is absent and would resolve this temporal-coverage inconsistency. [resolved] fim-int-2026-07-07-G002: No official Frankfurt prosecutorial… fim-int-2026-07-07-G002: No official Frankfurt prosecutorial statement naming Roman Abramovich in connection with the Deutsche Bank raid was located; an official case filing or prosecutorial press statement would confirm or disconfirm the media-reported link. [resolved] fim-int-2026-07-07-G003: No post-2020 quantified estimate of… fim-int-2026-07-07-G003: No post-2020 quantified estimate of illicit capital flows through German real estate was located; an updated Transparency International/OCCRP or BKA figure would allow reassessment of the scheme's current severity. [resolved] fim-int-2026-07-07-G004: Germany's next FATF progress report… fim-int-2026-07-07-G004: Germany's next FATF progress report or 5th-round mutual evaluation has no confirmed date on the FATF assessments calendar; a scheduled date would sharpen the T3 tracker's forward-looking confidence. [resolved] fim-int-2026-07-07-G005: AMLA's first supervisory methodolog… fim-int-2026-07-07-G005: AMLA's first supervisory methodology and work-programme documents have not yet been published in retrievable form; their publication would substantiate the fim-reg-2026-050 horizon item beyond Assessed confidence. [resolved] fim-int-2026-07-07-G006: No evidence was located on whether … fim-int-2026-07-07-G006: No evidence was located on whether Germany has moved to close the FATF-identified TCSP market-entry licensing gap since the 2022 Mutual Evaluation; a BaFin or Federal Ministry of Finance policy statement would clarify current status. [resolved] fim-int-2026-08-05-G001: Tier D (Cambodia, Laos, Mexico, Col… fim-int-2026-08-05-G001: Tier D (Cambodia, Laos, Mexico, Colombia) dedicated searches were not independently run this cycle within the pooled search budget. [resolved] fim-int-2026-08-05-G002: No DE-specific extractive-industry … fim-int-2026-08-05-G002: No DE-specific extractive-industry (D4) finding distinct from the sanctions-evasion/export-control cases was located this cycle. [resolved] fim-int-2026-08-05-G003: No Tier-1 primary German legislativ… fim-int-2026-08-05-G003: No Tier-1 primary German legislative text was located for the domestic GwG reform draft (financial holding companies obliged from 2027). [resolved] fim-int-2026-08-05-G004: No new EU/US/UK autonomous-listing … fim-int-2026-08-05-G004: No new EU/US/UK autonomous-listing divergence event specifically implicating Germany (T6) was identified this cycle. [resolved] fim-int-2026-08-16-G001: Tier-D jurisdictions (KH, LA, MX, C… fim-int-2026-08-16-G001: Tier-D jurisdictions (KH, LA, MX, CO) not actively researched this cycle — pooled union budget prioritised DE-scoped queries. [resolved] fim-int-2026-08-16-G002: No T1 europa.eu/amla.europa.eu prim… fim-int-2026-08-16-G002: No T1 europa.eu/amla.europa.eu primary anchor located for AMLR/6AMLD/AMLA standing-tracker instruments this cycle. [resolved] fim-int-2026-08-16-G003: No T1/T2 confirmation of a distinct… fim-int-2026-08-16-G003: No T1/T2 confirmation of a distinct 2022 FATF review of Germany referenced in secondary German-language sources, versus the 2009/2010 MER on fatf-gafi.org. [resolved] fim-int-2026-08-16-G004: D6 (Compliance Technology and Activ… fim-int-2026-08-16-G004: D6 (Compliance Technology and Active Defence) DE-specific supervisory AI/ML transaction-monitoring guidance not located this cycle. [resolved] fim-int-2026-08-16-G005: UN Panel of Experts (Yemen) / OFAC … fim-int-2026-08-16-G005: UN Panel of Experts (Yemen) / OFAC / OFSI Houthi-linked designation channels not actively checked this cycle for a DE nexus. [resolved] fim-int-2026-09-28-G001 ({'scheme': 'financial_integrity', '… fim-int-2026-09-28-G001 ({'scheme': 'financial_integrity', 'value': 'D1'}): No substantive D1 sanctions-architecture finding surfaced for Germany this cycle. [resolved] fim-int-2026-09-28-G002 ({'scheme': 'financial_integrity', '… fim-int-2026-09-28-G002 ({'scheme': 'financial_integrity', 'value': 'D4'}): No substantive D4 conflict-finance finding surfaced this cycle. [resolved] fim-int-2026-09-28-G003: Tier D coverage for Mexico and Colo… fim-int-2026-09-28-G003: Tier D coverage for Mexico and Colombia yielded no fresh material this cycle within budget; recorded as a coverage gap, not a no-material-change finding. [resolved] fim-int-2026-09-28-G004 ({'scheme': 'financial_integrity', '… fim-int-2026-09-28-G004 ({'scheme': 'financial_integrity', 'value': 'D2'}): 6AMLD transposition status for the DE-specific GwG amendment vehicle was not confirmed against a T1 BaFin/Bundesanzeiger source this cycle. [resolved] fim-int-2026-10-04-G001 ({'scheme': 'financial_integrity', '… fim-int-2026-10-04-G001 ({'scheme': 'financial_integrity', 'value': 'D1'}): No DE-specific D1 (sanctions architecture/evasion) finding was located this cycle; a BaFin or OFSI/OFAC/EU-Council update naming a DE-specific sanctions-evasion channel would resolve this. [resolved] fim-int-2026-10-04-G002 ({'scheme': 'financial_integrity', '… fim-int-2026-10-04-G002 ({'scheme': 'financial_integrity', 'value': 'D3'}): No DE-specific D3 (enabler jurisdictions/professional facilitators) finding was located this cycle. [resolved] fim-int-2026-10-04-G003 ({'scheme': 'financial_integrity', '… fim-int-2026-10-04-G003 ({'scheme': 'financial_integrity', 'value': 'D4'}): No DE-specific D4 (conflict finance) finding was located this cycle. [resolved] fim-int-2026-10-04-G004: Tier D jurisdictions (KH, LA, MX, C… fim-int-2026-10-04-G004: Tier D jurisdictions (KH, LA, MX, CO) were not independently refreshed this cycle within the DE-bound research pass; this is a coverage gap, not a no-material-change finding. [resolved] fim-int-2026-10-04-G005 ({'scheme': 'financial_integrity', '… fim-int-2026-10-04-G005 ({'scheme': 'financial_integrity', 'value': 'D7'}): Germany's 6AMLD transposition status and the exact AMLA direct-supervision perimeter for DE-domiciled obliged entities were not independently re-verified this cycle. [resolved] fim-int-2026-10-04-G006 ({'scheme': 'financial_integrity', '… fim-int-2026-10-04-G006 ({'scheme': 'financial_integrity', 'value': 'D5'}): Exact MiCA CASP authorisation count for Germany diverges between sources (approximately 53 vs 91); an ESMA register cross-check would resolve this. [resolved] fim-int-2026-10-12-G001 ({'scheme': 'financial_integrity', '… fim-int-2026-10-12-G001 ({'scheme': 'financial_integrity', 'value': 'D1'}): No Germany-specific Russian sanctions-evasion development identified this cycle; T1 tracker coverage for Germany is thin. [resolved] fim-int-2026-10-12-G002: No Germany-specific jurisdiction ri… fim-int-2026-10-12-G002: No Germany-specific jurisdiction risk movement data was available from research this cycle. [resolved] fim-int-2026-10-18-G001 ({'scheme': 'financial_integrity', '… fim-int-2026-10-18-G001 ({'scheme': 'financial_integrity', 'value': 'D1'}): Russian sanctions-evasion architecture tracker (T1) was not independently reached for Germany-specific channels this cycle; shared search budget was scoped to Germany-specific domains. [resolved] fim-int-2026-10-18-G002: Tier D jurisdictions (KH, LA, MX, C… fim-int-2026-10-18-G002: Tier D jurisdictions (KH, LA, MX, CO) were not actively searched this cycle; the union pass was scoped to Germany. [resolved] fim-int-2026-10-18-G003 ({'scheme': 'financial_integrity', '… fim-int-2026-10-18-G003 ({'scheme': 'financial_integrity', 'value': 'D5'}): No BaFin-published primary enforcement notice for the futurum bank AG MiCAR refusal was located this cycle; the fact rests on the issuer's own mandatory ad-hoc disclosure. [resolved] fim-int-2026-10-23-G001: AML/CFT, sanctions and market-abuse… fim-int-2026-10-23-G001: AML/CFT, sanctions and market-abuse instrument-layer searches (GwG, KWG market-abuse provisions, sanctions enforcement via BAFA/Zollkriminalamt/FIU) were not run this cycle; search budget was spent on other consumer domains. [open] fim-int-2026-11-01-G001 ({'scheme': 'financial_integrity', '… fim-int-2026-11-01-G001 ({'scheme': 'financial_integrity', 'value': 'D4'}): Conflict-minerals/extractive transparency (D4), proliferation-financing-specific duties, and compliance-technology supervisory expectations (D6) were not reached within the Station-1 research budget for this cycle. [open] fim-int-2026-11-01-G002 ({'scheme': 'financial_integrity', '… fim-int-2026-11-01-G002 ({'scheme': 'financial_integrity', 'value': 'D2'}): Nominee/bearer-share disclosure (D2) and information-sharing gateways/UWO deadlines were not reached within the Station-1 research budget. [open] fim-int-2026-11-01-G003 ({'scheme': 'financial_integrity', '… fim-int-2026-11-01-G003 ({'scheme': 'financial_integrity', 'value': 'D1'}): Sectoral trade sanctions detail beyond the general AWG/AWV framework was not reached within the research budget. [open] FIM-GAP-001 (D2): Germany's Transparency Register (Transpare… FIM-GAP-001 (D2): Germany's Transparency Register (Transparenzregister), introduced in 2017, remains underutilized by real-estate agents and notaries who are obligated gatekeepers, with historically very low suspicious-transaction reporting from that sector relative to overall inflows of dubiously-sourced capital into property. FIM-GAP-002 (D3): Germany's AML/CFT supervisory system spans… FIM-GAP-002 (D3): Germany's AML/CFT supervisory system spans over 300 supervisors across financial and non-financial sectors covering roughly 1 million DNFBP entities, a scale the FATF found hampered by a critical lack of resources and inconsistent risk-based prioritization. FIM-GAP-003 (D2): Germany's TCSP (trust and company service … FIM-GAP-003 (D2): Germany's TCSP (trust and company service provider) sector has no market-entry licensing checks, unlike more tightly controlled licensed financial sectors, per the FATF's 2022 Mutual Evaluation. FIM-GAP-004 (D1): BaFin has been found insufficiently proact… FIM-GAP-004 (D1): BaFin has been found insufficiently proactive in identifying unlicensed money-or-value-transfer-service (MVTS) providers, particularly hawala operators, leaving an informal-value-transfer channel with limited supervisory visibility. ## Evidence #### Confidence-tiered claims Progressively consolidating AML supervision, sanctions enforcement and FIU functions under one federal roof, replacing the previously fragmented federal-state structure criticised by FATF [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source AMLA operational in Frankfurt since 1 July 2025; AMLR (Regulation (EU) 2024/1624) applies directly from 10 July 2027 [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source SARs must be filed exclusively via goAML without delay (same or next working day) as of March 2026, under the GwG Section 46(1) duty to stand still pending FIU clearance Uncertain Germany holds the largest population of MiCA crypto-asset service provider authorisations in the EEA as of September 2026 (reported figures diverge between ~53 and ~91), following a national transitional-period cutoff of 31 December 2025, earlier than MiCA's EU-wide 1 July 2026 outer limit [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source Heightened AML supervisory scrutiny reported for crypto, fintech and payments institutions heading into 2026, including more on-site inspections [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source BaFin set new deadlines on 15 Sep 2026 for remedying AML/CTF transaction-monitoring data-processing system shortcomings, following prior timeframes set in 2021 and 2023 [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source BaFin ordered the firm to submit contracts with placement agents and other documents needed to fulfil customer due-diligence duties under the GwG [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source From 1 October 2026 BaFin began publishing a tabular overview of EBA/AMLA ESA guideline adoption status instead of individual circulars [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source BaFin refused the MiCA CASP licence application of Futurum Bank AG, operator of bitcoin.de; prior toleration of crypto-asset services ends; trading and deposits suspended since 12 June 2026 [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source AMLA (headquartered in Frankfurt) targeted finalisation of its provisional list of entities eligible for direct supervision by end-September 2026, ahead of 2027 selection and 2028 commencement of direct supervision [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source UniCredit formally applied for EU antitrust clearance of its proposed Commerzbank acquisition, announced 12 October 2026; UniCredit holds an economic interest of approximately 47.6% of Commerzbank's share capital [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source BaFin ordered new deadlines (final 6 Oct 2026, announced 9 Oct 2026) for remedying deficiencies in AML/CTF transaction-monitoring data-processing systems, updating prior 2021 and 2023 orders. [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source BaFin fined abcfinance GmbH €90,000 for GwG violations: several suspicious-activity reports filed late, relating to conduct in April 2025. [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source BaFin refused futurum bank AG's MiCAR CASP authorisation application (filed 27 June 2025), disclosed 6 October 2026, ending its prior toleration (Duldung) to continue crypto-asset services. [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source Bitcoin Group SE is finalising agreements with two separately-regulated German institutions (trading counterparty; custodian) to resume Bitcoin.de trading; no financial terms disclosed. [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source FATF's own assessment calendar lists Germany's next possible onsite mutual-evaluation period as 2029-02-01; an older US State Department source stated a 2026 re-evaluation. The two sources disagree; FATF's own calendar is weighted as authoritative. [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Disputed · 1 source BaFin withdrew the banking licence and ordered wind-down on 22 October 2026 [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source Two EUR 6,000 fines (EUR 12,000 total) for breach of WpHG notification duties, 21 October 2026 [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source BaFin issued a public warning on 21 October 2026 for offering banking business without required authorisation [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source Since July 2024, where several listed persons hold stakes in an entity, their holdings are aggregated to test the 50% ownership threshold; a separate control test can also catch sub-50% holdings; the presumption is rebuttable. [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Uncertain · 1 source A new general reporting duty (Jedermannspflicht) requires anyone becoming aware of frozen funds/economic resources of a sanctioned person to report without undue delay to the Bundesbank or BAFA; self-reporting exemption no longer generally available. [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source Cross-border payments between residents and non-residents exceeding EUR 50,000 (raised from EUR 12,500, effective January 2025) must be reported to the Bundesbank by the 7th working day of the following month. [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source A beneficial owner is any natural person holding more than 25% of capital/voting rights, or otherwise exercising comparable control; exactly 25% does not qualify; fictitious BOs (managing directors) registered if no natural person meets the threshold. [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source The former notification fiction (commercial register entry satisfying Transparenzregister duty) has been abolished; companies must actively notify the register without undue delay. [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source Enhanced due diligence applies where risk analysis indicates higher ML/TF risk, including PEPs (minimum 12 months post-office), high-risk third countries, and correspondent banking relationships, which must be reviewed/amended/terminated for high-risk-third-country respondents. [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source Obliged entities may rely on third parties for CDD but retain responsibility; reliance on third parties in high-risk third countries is prohibited (subject to group exceptions); EDD under § 15 cannot be outsourced. [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source Lawyers, notaries, patent attorneys (only when participating in catalogue transactions), auditors, tax advisers and company/trust service providers are GwG obliged entities. [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source Since 1 January 2024, all lawyers who are GwG obliged entities must register with the FIU via goAML Web, regardless of whether a SAR has been filed. [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source The LkSG employee threshold for in-scope companies was reduced from 3,000 to 1,000 employees in Germany, effective 1 January 2024. [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source BaFin is Germany's competent authority for MiCAR supervision of CASPs and ART/EMT issuers; providing crypto-asset services without authorisation under Art. 59(1)(a) MiCAR is a criminal offence under KMAG § 46 Abs. 1 Nr. 3, punishable by up to 5 years imprisonment or a fine. [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source PSPs must attach minimal payer/payee account data for transfers below EUR 1,000; full information is required at or above EUR 1,000, with full data to be provided to a requesting intermediary/payee PSP within 3 working days. [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source CASPs must attach full originator/beneficiary data to every crypto-asset transfer regardless of value, with no de minimis; transfers above EUR 1,000 to/from a self-hosted address additionally require ownership verification measures. [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source in_force [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source in_force [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source in_force [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source in_force [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source in_force [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source in_force [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source in_force [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source in_force [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source in_force [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source in_force [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source proposed increase pending; current caps EUR 10m (intentional) / EUR 5m (negligent) [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source