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# Netherlands — AML/CTF Regime | Financial Integrity Monitor

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# Netherlands: AML/CTF Regime

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#### AML/CTF Regime

Continue reading The Netherlands' AML/CTF architecture this period is defined by two threads: a concrete enforcement action under the existing Wwft regime, and the continued consultation-stage status of the legislative vehicle that will eventually replace it. De Nederlandsche Bank imposed a €722,160 administrative fine on Modulr Finance B.V. on 30 September 2026 for serious shortcomings in its ongoing monitoring of customers and transactions across the period 1 January 2023 to 16 July 2024, finding a breach of Wwft art. 3(2)(d)'s ongoing-monitoring obligation. Third-party reporting indicates the firm had relied on intermediary partners, including crypto-asset service providers, to perform monitoring that the Wwft requires the obliged entity itself to perform. This is DNB's first publicly recorded AML fine against an electronic-money institution, and it is a clear statement that outsourcing client-facing monitoring to downstream platform partners does not discharge an obliged entity's own Wwft duties.

At the architectural level, the Netherlands' transposition of the EU's sixth Anti-Money Laundering Directive, via the draft Implementatiewet ter voorkoming van witwassen en terrorismefinanciering, which will repeal the Wwft once enacted, remains at the consultation stage that opened 4 July 2025. No material progression toward enactment was identified this period, and the parliamentary timetable for the Implementatiewet remains unconfirmed. In the meantime, the EU's Anti-Money Laundering Regulation applies directly in the Netherlands without requiring domestic transposition, meaning obliged entities already face a two-track compliance landscape: directly applicable EU-level requirements under the AMLR running alongside the still-in-force Wwft, pending the Implementatiewet's eventual passage and the Wwft's repeal.

This dual-track posture is itself the structural fact to track: the AML Regulation, the sixth directive, and the AMLA Regulation establishing the EU's Anti-Money Laundering Authority together represent three distinct instruments moving supervision from a purely national model toward a hybrid EU-level regime, and the Netherlands' Modulr Finance fine demonstrates that national supervision under the existing Wwft framework remains active and consequential in the interim.

#### Outlook

The principal item to watch is whether the Implementatiewet progresses beyond consultation stage toward a confirmed parliamentary timetable; no such progression was identified this period. Separately, whether DNB's enforcement posture toward payment-sector gatekeepers relying on downstream monitoring partners, as demonstrated by the Modulr Finance fine, extends to further firms with similar outsourcing arrangements is a pattern worth monitoring, though no further such action was identified this period.