--- title: "Spain (ES) — Financial-Integrity Intelligence · Sentinel" canonical: https://sentinel.gi/jurisdictions/spain-es/ source_html: /jurisdictions/spain/index.html description: "Financial integrity intelligence for Spain (ES): sanctions, beneficial ownership, enabler jurisdictions, conflict finance, digital assets and compliance technology — with sourced findings." generated_at: 2026-11-08T04:46:02Z content_sha256: 2276a1b1c7d540c0502e1cc57c62e5891d8708edb70cfdc881e982d780014b00 generator: "fe-fleet/md-twin@1.0" --- # Spain (ES) — 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 # Spain ES Domains covered 8 of 8 Sources 228 Role actions 8 Horizon <90d 0 Jurisdiction profile FATF status: Largely Compliant Tier: A Risk direction: Stable Enablement vs enforcement: Mixed Spain's AML/CFT regime rests on Law 10/2010 and its implementing regulation, with Sepblac acting as both FIU and primary AML/CFT supervisor. More FATF rates Spain compliant/largely compliant on 38 of 40 Recommendations and high/substantial on 10 of 11 effectiveness outcomes. CNMV supervises MiCA-authorised crypto firms; the golden-visa residency-by-investment channel was abolished in 2025. Key deficiencies - Low terms of imprisonment for money-laundering convictions relative to case volume - Variable implementation of AML measures across DNFBP sectors (lawyers, TCSPs, real estate) versus banks and notaries - Beneficial ownership register access restricted to demonstrated legitimate interest rather than full public access - Historic weaknesses in targeted financial sanctions implementation for freezing terrorism-related assets Recent developments (18m) - Sepblac fined CaixaBank over €30 million for AML deficiencies tied to a skyscraper sale (January 2026) - Sepblac fined Banco Santander over €40 million over Openbank digital-unit AML process deficiencies (January 2026) - Spain abolished its golden-visa residency-by-investment programme for real estate investors (April 2025) - CNMV granted BBVA authorisation to offer retail crypto custody and execution under MiCA (March 2025) - Guardia Civil, with T3 Financial Crime Unit (TRON/Tether/TRM), dismantled a EUR ~75 million cash-to-crypto laundering network (November 2024) Law made at European Economic Area level that applies in Spain is covered once, on the [European Economic Area](/jurisdictions/eea/) page. This page covers Spain’s own layer: implementation, national authorities, national options and local enforcement. Brief ## Lead signal #### Lead Signal Spain has moved on two fronts to close long-standing gaps in its anti-money-laundering architecture, and the two moves read as a single institutional posture rather than two unrelated events. Real Decreto 813/2026, which enters into force on 28 October 2026, reforms the regulation implementing Law 10/2010 by amending eleven financial royal decrees at once. It sets minimum standards that non-face-to-face identification procedures must meet to satisfy SEPBLAC, fixes the term of the SEPBLAC Director at six non-renewable years, and removes the exemption that had let small obliged entities avoid designating a SEPBLAC representative. Confirmed reporting places this reform at the centre of Spain's institutional AML architecture for the period ahead. Read full brief #### Lead Signal Spain has moved on two fronts to close long-standing gaps in its anti-money-laundering architecture, and the two moves read as a single institutional posture rather than two unrelated events. Real Decreto 813/2026, which enters into force on 28 October 2026, reforms the regulation implementing Law 10/2010 by amending eleven financial royal decrees at once. It sets minimum standards that non-face-to-face identification procedures must meet to satisfy SEPBLAC, fixes the term of the SEPBLAC Director at six non-renewable years, and removes the exemption that had let small obliged entities avoid designating a SEPBLAC representative. Confirmed reporting places this reform at the centre of Spain's institutional AML architecture for the period ahead. Alongside it, Royal Decree-law 25/2026 brings all crypto-asset service providers within the obliged-entity perimeter of Law 10/2010 from 1 October 2026, under the amended article 2(1)(z). A breach of Travel Rule information-accompanying-transfer obligations is now classified as a serious infringement carrying a minimum fine of sixty thousand euros, and SEPBLAC is to report on the adequacy of AML controls as part of the CNMV authorisation procedure for these providers. Together, the two instruments narrow the space between licensing and anti-money-laundering supervision that crypto-asset firms in Spain had previously occupied. #### Other Developments Enforcement activity continued in parallel domains that sit adjacent to the AML perimeter. The Banco de España fined CBNK Banco de Colectivos, S.A. and four board members a combined 369,600 euros for a very serious infringement of remuneration-policy rules tied to senior-management pension-savings contributions. This is a prudential and conduct matter rather than an anti-money-laundering finding, but it sits within the same confirmed institutional enforcement record for the period. The CNMV separately fined an unnamed investment firm and three of its directors a combined 1,048,000 euros for very serious infringements connected to the protection of client funds. This finding rests on press reporting rather than on independently retrieved primary notice from the official gazette, and is accordingly carried at a probable rather than confirmed level of confidence. The transposition calendar for beneficial-ownership register access remains open. Articles 11, 12, 13 and 15 of the sixth EU Anti-Money Laundering Directive required transposition by 10 July 2026, and Spain has not yet produced a transposition act for those provisions. The institutional pre-positioning achieved through Real Decreto 813/2026 and Royal Decree-law 25/2026 addresses supervisory architecture and the crypto-asset perimeter respectively, but neither constitutes the beneficial-ownership transposition itself. #### Cross-Monitor Connections The crypto-asset obliged-entity designation under Royal Decree-law 25/2026 is the kind of finding that other monitors tracking digital-asset infrastructure and information-operations risk will want visibility on, since a Travel Rule compliance perimeter with a defined minimum penalty changes the cost calculus for counterparties routing value through Spanish-licensed providers. The SEPBLAC architectural reform under Real Decreto 813/2026, by fixing supervisory leadership tenure and extending representative-designation duties to previously exempt small entities, is a structural change of the kind that compliance-technology and institutional-capacity trackers elsewhere in the fleet would read as a capacity-building signal rather than an incident. Neither finding this cycle carries a conflict-finance or sanctions-evasion dimension strong enough to warrant cross-routing to those trackers. #### Outlook The period ahead turns on whether Spain closes the beneficial-ownership transposition gap before further EU-level scrutiny attaches to the delay. The sixth Directive's access-harmonisation provisions were due by 10 July 2026, and no transposition act had been identified as at the most recent recency date tracked. Separately, previously exempt small obliged entities will need to complete designation or communication of a SEPBLAC representative by 28 July 2027, a horizon-tracked consequence of Real Decreto 813/2026 that firms should treat as a distinct compliance milestone from the 28 October 2026 entry into force of the reform itself. For crypto-asset service providers, the practical question is less whether the obliged-entity designation applies from 1 October 2026 than how consistently the stated SEPBLAC-adequacy reporting operates inside the CNMV authorisation procedure in practice. Earlier periodic briefs (5) 4 Nov 2026 · fim-2026-11-01 #### Lead Signal Spain has moved on two fronts to close long-standing gaps in its anti-money-laundering architecture, and the two moves read as a single institutional posture rather than two unrelated events. Real Decreto 813/2026, which enters into force on 28 October 2026, reforms the regulation implementing Law 10/2010 by amending eleven financial royal decrees at once. It sets minimum standards that non-face-to-face identification procedures must meet to satisfy SEPBLAC, fixes the term of the SEPBLAC Director at six non-renewable years, and removes the exemption that had let small obliged entities avoid designating a SEPBLAC representative. Confirmed reporting places this reform at the centre of Spain's institutional AML architecture for the period ahead. Alongside it, Royal Decree-law 25/2026 brings all crypto-asset service providers within the obliged-entity perimeter of Law 10/2010 from 1 October 2026, under the amended article 2(1)(z). A breach of Travel Rule information-accompanying-transfer obligations is now classified as a serious infringement carrying a minimum fine of sixty thousand euros, and SEPBLAC is to report on the adequacy of AML controls as part of the CNMV authorisation procedure for these providers. Together, the two instruments narrow the space between licensing and anti-money-laundering supervision that crypto-asset firms in Spain had previously occupied. #### Other Developments Enforcement activity continued in parallel domains that sit adjacent to the AML perimeter. The Banco de España fined CBNK Banco de Colectivos, S.A. and four board members a combined 369,600 euros for a very serious infringement of remuneration-policy rules tied to senior-management pension-savings contributions. This is a prudential and conduct matter rather than an anti-money-laundering finding, but it sits within the same confirmed institutional enforcement record for the period. The CNMV separately fined an unnamed investment firm and three of its directors a combined 1,048,000 euros for very serious infringements connected to the protection of client funds. This finding rests on press reporting rather than on independently retrieved primary notice from the official gazette, and is accordingly carried at a probable rather than confirmed level of confidence. The transposition calendar for beneficial-ownership register access remains open. Articles 11, 12, 13 and 15 of the sixth EU Anti-Money Laundering Directive required transposition by 10 July 2026, and Spain has not yet produced a transposition act for those provisions. The institutional pre-positioning achieved through Real Decreto 813/2026 and Royal Decree-law 25/2026 addresses supervisory architecture and the crypto-asset perimeter respectively, but neither constitutes the beneficial-ownership transposition itself. #### Cross-Monitor Connections The crypto-asset obliged-entity designation under Royal Decree-law 25/2026 is the kind of finding that other monitors tracking digital-asset infrastructure and information-operations risk will want visibility on, since a Travel Rule compliance perimeter with a defined minimum penalty changes the cost calculus for counterparties routing value through Spanish-licensed providers. The SEPBLAC architectural reform under Real Decreto 813/2026, by fixing supervisory leadership tenure and extending representative-designation duties to previously exempt small entities, is a structural change of the kind that compliance-technology and institutional-capacity trackers elsewhere in the fleet would read as a capacity-building signal rather than an incident. Neither finding carries a conflict-finance or sanctions-evasion dimension strong enough to warrant cross-routing to those trackers. #### Outlook The period ahead turns on whether Spain closes the beneficial-ownership transposition gap before further EU-level scrutiny attaches to the delay. The sixth Directive's access-harmonisation provisions were due by 10 July 2026, and no transposition act had been identified as at the most recent recency date tracked. Separately, previously exempt small obliged entities will need to complete designation or communication of a SEPBLAC representative by 28 July 2027, a horizon-tracked consequence of Real Decreto 813/2026 that firms should treat as a distinct compliance milestone from the 28 October 2026 entry into force of the reform itself. For crypto-asset service providers, the practical question is less whether the obliged-entity designation applies from 1 October 2026 than how consistently the stated SEPBLAC-adequacy reporting operates inside the CNMV authorisation procedure in practice. 3 Nov 2026 · fim-2026-11-03 #### Lead Signal Spain tightened its anti-money-laundering architecture through two linked instruments that came into force within weeks of each other. Real Decreto 813/2026, published in the Boletin Oficial del Estado on 8 October 2026 and in force from 28 October 2026, amends eleven financial royal decrees, with its core axis a reform of the regulation implementing Law 10/2010. Non-face-to-face identification procedures must now meet SEPBLACs minimum general-authorisation standards, SEPBLACs own institutional architecture is reformed (including a fixed six-year non-renewable term for its Director and fixed minimum content for the national risk assessment and annual report), and the exemption that had let small obliged entities avoid designating a SEPBLAC representative is eliminated. Separately, Royal Decree-law 25/2026, in force from 1 October 2026, amends Law 10/2010 so that all crypto-asset service providers become obliged entities, with breach of the Travel Rule under Regulation (EU) 2023/1113 now classed as a serious infringement carrying a minimum fine of 60,000 euros. Together the two instruments close the gap between MiCA-driven authorisation of crypto-asset service providers by the CNMV and their supervision for anti-money-laundering purposes by SEPBLAC. The sequencing is notable: the crypto-specific obliged-entity extension took effect four weeks before the broader institutional and identification reform, suggesting a deliberate staging of pre-positioning moves rather than a single omnibus package. Read together, they represent the kind of structural tightening that outpaces discrete enforcement activity in analytical significance. #### Other Developments Banco de Espana sanctioned CBNK Banco de Colectivos, S.A. a fine of 369,600 euros for breaches of remuneration-policy rules, following proceedings opened in April 2025 and sanctions approved by the Governing Council on 3 March 2026, published in the BOE on 15 October 2026. The gap between proceedings opening and sanction publication illustrates the multi-year tail typical of Spanish supervisory enforcement. The CNMV fined an unnamed investment firm and three directors a combined 1,048,000 euros for serious irregularities in client-fund protection, under a sanctioning agreement the CNMV Council adopted on 25 June 2026 and published once the appeal window lapsed. The amount and multi-director scope point to control failures reaching beyond a single compliance function. Beneficial-ownership transposition remains pending. Articles 11, 12, 13 and 15 of the sixth EU Anti-Money Laundering Directive, governing beneficial-ownership register access, require transposition by Spain by 10 July 2026, ahead of the directly-applicable EU Anti-Money Laundering Regulation taking full effect on 10 July 2027. No Spain-specific register-access development beyond this pending deadline was identified. #### Cross-Monitor Connections The crypto obliged-entity extension under Royal Decree-law 25/2026 sits directly at the intersection of market-access authorisation and financial-crime supervision: a crypto-asset service provider authorised by the CNMV under the EU Markets in Crypto-Assets framework is now simultaneously an obliged entity under SEPBLAC supervision, with SEPBLAC reporting on anti-money-laundering control adequacy inside the CNMV authorisation procedure itself. This fusion of market-access and financial-crime gatekeeping is the kind of structural development that a payments-focused reading of the same CASP population would frame primarily as a licensing condition, while here it registers as a supervisory-perimeter expansion. The SEPBLAC institutional reforms in Real Decreto 813/2026 — fixed leadership tenure, standardised risk-assessment content — are the sort of compliance-architecture change that typically precedes, rather than follows, a change in enforcement intensity against regulated-sector entities generally. #### Outlook The near-term calendar carries two further staged obligations. Beneficial-ownership register access provisions under the sixth Directive were due for transposition by 10 July 2026, with the directly-applicable Regulation taking full effect from 10 July 2027; where transposition status cannot be confirmed as complete, this should be read as scheduled rather than asserted as either passed or outstanding. Separately, formerly-exempt small obliged entities face a 28 July 2027 deadline to designate a SEPBLAC representative under the Real Decreto 813/2026 changes. Sanctions architecture, enabler-jurisdiction exposure, conflict-finance findings and commercial-activity signal showed no material movement and are not addressed further here. 18 Oct 2026 · fim-2026-10-18 #### Lead Signal Spain published Real Decreto 813/2026 in the Boletin Oficial del Estado on 8 October 2026, amending the implementing regulation of Ley 10/2010 (Real Decreto 304/2014) to remove the EUR 1,000 occasional-transaction identification threshold for crypto-asset ATM operators, taking effect 28 October 2026. From that date, anyone using a crypto-asset ATM in Spain must be identified regardless of the amount involved, closing a gap that previously allowed small-value transactions to pass without customer identification. The same instrument strips the exemption that had allowed certain small obliged entities to avoid designating a representative to SEPBLAC, and removes identification exemptions previously available for notarial acts. #### Other Developments MiCA's transitional period closed. Spain's transitional period for legacy crypto-asset service providers under Regulation (EU) 2023/1114 ended on 1 July 2026, the same date it ended across every EU Member State, bringing the full MiCA authorisation regime into effect for Spanish-supervised entities going forward. CNMV's register stood at fifteen entities. As of 2 October 2026, the CNMV's register listed fifteen Spanish entities operating under the post-transition regime: nine authorised crypto-asset service providers and six notified banks. CNMV opened a consumer-complaints consultation. On 15 October 2026 the CNMV opened a public consultation on a draft circular that would extend its formal complaints-handling service to clients of crypto-asset and crowdfunding service providers, a extension of consumer-redress infrastructure that previously covered only traditional investment-services clients. Spain's standing AML/CTF baseline remains in place. Spain's AML/CTF regime, anchored in Ley 10/2010 and Real Decreto 304/2014 and supervised by SEPBLAC, continues to operate without a change in FATF standing: Spain is not on the FATF grey list, and FATF's most recent assessment found Spain compliant or largely compliant on 38 of 40 Recommendations following a 2018 re-rating on three Recommendations. SEPBLAC published its National Risk Assessment for 2026 on 31 July 2026, providing the current risk basis underlying Spain's AML/CFT measures. #### Cross-Monitor Connections The RD 813/2026 crypto-ATM identification tightening sits directly at the intersection of Spain's AML/CFT regime and its digital-asset regulatory architecture: it is not a crypto-specific instrument but a general amendment to the AML implementing regulation that happens to bear most heavily on crypto-asset ATM operators and other payment-adjacent obliged entities. Readers tracking Spain's crypto regulatory posture separately should note that RD 813/2026 operates alongside, rather than as part of, the MiCA authorisation framework that governs licensing of crypto-asset service providers. The CNMV's consumer-complaints consultation likewise touches both the crypto-regulatory and financial-conduct registers, extending an existing investor-protection mechanism to a newly regulated population of CASP and crowdfunding clients rather than creating a new substantive right. #### Outlook RD 813/2026's crypto-ATM and SEPBLAC-representative provisions take effect 28 October 2026, and the near-term question is implementation: whether crypto-asset ATM operators have the identification infrastructure in place by that date, and how SEPBLAC handles the influx of small entities that now require a designated representative where none was previously required. The CNMV's draft circular consultation on crypto/crowdfunding complaints remains open, with the circular expected to enter into force shortly after adoption and publication in the BOE. No FATF plenary action on Spain is in train, and Spain's standing AML/CTF regime shows no sign of near-term structural change beyond this cycle's regulatory delta. 12 Oct 2026 · fim-2026-10-12 #### Lead Signal Spain's Council of Ministers approved Real Decreto 813/2026, published in the BOE on 8 October 2026, amending the regulation that develops Ley 10/2010, Spain's foundational AML/CFT statute. The decree's crypto-facing provisions close an anonymity gap that previously existed at crypto-asset ATMs: identity verification is now mandatory for every transaction at such machines regardless of the amount involved, subject to an 18-month transitional period running to 8 April 2028. The same decree introduces an AML-gateway precondition for crypto-asset service provider authorisation: CASPs must obtain a prior report from SEPBLAC, Spain's financial intelligence unit, before the CNMV can grant MiCA authorisation, a requirement scheduled to take effect 28 October 2026. Both measures are explicitly tied, in the decree itself, to Spain's forthcoming FATF mutual evaluation, with a possible onsite assessment window in February 2027 and a possible Plenary discussion in October 2027. The architectural significance here exceeds any single enforcement action: Spain is restructuring the gatekeeping points in its AML perimeter, specifically the CASP authorisation chain and the crypto-ATM channel, ahead of external review rather than in response to a documented failure. #### Other Developments SEPBLAC representative coverage expands to small obliged entities. The same decree removes the exemption that had previously let small real-estate credit intermediaries and certain other small obliged entities forgo appointing a SEPBLAC representative; those entities now have a nine-month compliance deadline, running to 28 July 2027, to bring themselves into line. This is a governance-layer extension of an existing obligation rather than a novel duty, and it broadens the population of entities subject to direct SEPBLAC-facing accountability. A parallel gambling-sector AML duty was introduced by the same instrument. Gambling operators must now verify that the holder of the payment method used for a deposit or withdrawal matches the holder of the gambling account before crediting or returning funds electronically, with a six-month transition to 28 April 2027 for existing players. This sits outside the crypto and cross-sector SEPBLAC measures but was enacted through the same decree, illustrating that RD 813/2026 functions as an omnibus AML-tightening instrument touching several obliged-entity categories at once. A wholesale replacement of Ley 10/2010 is in train but not yet drafted into bill form. Spain's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Business opened a public consultation on an Anteproyecto de Ley de medidas integrales covering AML, counter-terrorist-financing, and counter-proliferation-financing measures, intended to replace Ley 10/2010 in its entirety. The consultation closed 30 September 2026; no bill text has yet been published. This finding rests on secondary law-firm and tax-adviser commentary rather than a retrieved primary consultation-portal document, so its procedural status should be read with that qualification. Current obligations under Ley 10/2010 remain in force unchanged pending further process. Mexico's fifth-round FATF Mutual Evaluation Report carries a possible October 2026 Plenary discussion , per FATF's own Global Assessment Calendar; the outcome has not yet been published in any source retrieved this cycle. #### Cross-Monitor Connections The crypto-facing provisions of RD 813/2026, the SEPBLAC-gateway precondition for CASP authorisation and the crypto-ATM identification mandate, are also tracked by the crypto monitor as licensing-adjacent developments; this financial-integrity brief carries the substantive AML analysis of both, while the crypto monitor's own sub-briefs reference them only for their gating effect on CASP authorisation. The gambling-sector payment-identity-matching duty introduced by the same decree is tracked independently by the advennt monitor as an operator obligation under Ley 13/2011; the underlying AML rationale and SEPBLAC architecture sit with this monitor. No conflict-finance, sanctions-architecture, or world-payments-specific connection was identified for Spain within this cycle's pooled search budget, though the SEPBLAC representative-coverage expansion touches payment-adjacent intermediaries that the world-payments monitor's own W11 sub-brief for this jurisdiction addresses from a payments-conduct angle. #### Outlook Spain's regulatory trajectory is one of pre-emptive tightening rather than documented deterioration: every development this cycle, the crypto-ATM and CASP-gateway measures, the SEPBLAC-representative expansion, and the pending wholesale AML law replacement, reads as structural preparation ahead of the FATF mutual evaluation window, with a possible onsite visit in February 2027 and possible Plenary discussion in October 2027. The clearest open item is the procedural fate of the Anteproyecto de Ley de medidas integrales: whether a bill text emerges, and on what timeline, will determine whether Spain's AML architecture is substantially rewritten or continues to be refined through decree-level amendments such as RD 813/2026. Mexico's pending mutual evaluation outcome is a secondary item to watch, as a comparative data point for how FATF's current evaluation cycle treats jurisdictions with recently tightened but not-yet-tested AML architectures. 28 Sep 2026 · fim-2026-09-28 #### Lead Signal Spain's crypto-asset supervisory architecture consolidated this cycle as the MiCA transitional period for legacy virtual-asset service providers closed on 1 July 2026. From that date, the CNMV becomes the sole gatekeeper for crypto-asset services in Spain, narrowing what had been a dual Banco de España/CNMV authorisation surface into a single authorisation gate. This is the kind of structural change that matters more than any single enforcement action: it redefines the population of entities that can lawfully touch the Spanish crypto-asset on-ramp, and by extension the population subject to AML/CFT obligations attaching to crypto-asset service provision. #### Other Developments FATF follow-up flags a persistent targeted financial sanctions gap. Spain's most recent FATF follow-up work rates the country compliant with 21 of 40 Recommendations and largely compliant with a further 16, leaving 3 rated only partially compliant. Despite this generally strong headline position, secondary commentary continues to identify weaknesses in Spain's capacity to freeze terrorism-linked assets under targeted financial sanctions, a gap that persists notwithstanding the country's broadly favourable overall AML/CFT rating. EU AML Package architecture continues to bind Spain structurally. Spain sits under the direct-application binding mechanism as an EU-27 EEA member, meaning the AML Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2024/1624) applies to it directly without national transposition, running in parallel to the sixth AML Directive's per-member-state transposition track and the AMLA Regulation's (Regulation (EU) 2024/1620) establishment of a hybrid EU-level supervisory perimeter. No Spain-specific 6AMLD transposition delta or AMLA direct-supervision designation was independently retrieved this cycle, so this remains a structural backdrop rather than a confirmed this-cycle development for Spain specifically. #### Cross-Monitor Connections The MiCA transitional close-out connects directly to the crypto monitor's own tracking of the same event under its crypto_licensing module, where the CNMV's assumption of sole gatekeeping authority is read as a licensing-architecture development; here, the same fact is read for its AML-relevant consequence of narrowing the population of entities providing an on-ramp into the Spanish financial system without CNMV authorisation. It also connects to world_payments' interest in Spanish payment-services architecture to the extent that crypto-asset service providers increasingly intersect with traditional payment rails, though no world_payments-specific finding was surfaced this cycle bearing directly on the crypto transition. #### Outlook The most consequential open question following the transitional close-out is whether any legacy Banco de España registrant failed to secure CNMV CASP authorisation before the 1 July 2026 cliff and continues to operate outside the lawful perimeter; general industry practice is understood to require wind-down of unauthorised legacy activity, but the distance between that expectation and the practice of any individual firm was not assessed this cycle. Separately, confirmation of Spain's specific 6AMLD transposition status and any AMLA direct-supervision designation remains an open item that would clarify how the broader EU AML Package architecture applies to Spain in practice, distinct from the structural fact of AMLR's direct application. Domain intelligence (D1–D8) Judgment: RDL 7/2026's amendment to Ley 10/2010 art. 42 giving EU/UN sanctions immediate direct effect remains the operative ES mechanism; no new divergence identified this cycle. Probable #### Beneficial Ownership and Corporate Transparency Spain sits within the EU AML Package's structural perimeter as a durable backdrop against which this cycle's beneficial-ownership-adjacent signal should be read. That package comprises three distinct instruments: the directly applicable AML Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2024/1624, the AMLR), the sixth AML Directive (6AMLD) transposed at Member State level, and the AMLA Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2024/1620) establishing the Anti-Money Laundering Authority. Together these shift supervision from a purely national model toward a hybrid regime in which AMLA exercises direct or indirect supervision over cross-border obliged entities, while national authorities such as SEPBLAC retain primary competence for most domestic obliged entities. No AMLA horizon anchor specific to Spain surfaced in the interpreter record this cycle, so this architecture is stated from standing context rather than as a new development. Continue reading Against that backdrop, Spain's directly relevant signal this cycle is Real Decreto 813/2026, published in the BOE on 8 October 2026 and taking effect 28 October 2026, which amends Real Decreto 304/2014 to remove the EUR 1,000 identification threshold for crypto-asset ATM users and strip the exemption allowing small obliged entities to forgo appointing a SEPBLAC representative. While RD 813/2026 is not itself a beneficial-ownership register amendment, the tightened customer-due-diligence and identification duties it imposes feed directly into the consistency checks that underpin Spain's central beneficial-ownership and corporate-registry architecture: better identification at the point of transaction strengthens the data available to cross-reference against registered beneficial-ownership declarations. No direct amendment to Spain's beneficial-ownership register itself was located this cycle, and no further corporate-transparency development beyond this CDD-adjacent tightening was evidenced. #### Outlook The practical effect of RD 813/2026 on beneficial-ownership consistency will become observable only once implementation data accumulates after the 28 October 2026 effective date. Watch for any SEPBLAC or CNMV guidance translating the strengthened identification duties into concrete beneficial-ownership cross-referencing practice, and for whether AMLA's direct-supervision perimeter, once operational, draws any Spanish cross-border obliged entities into its remit rather than SEPBLAC's exclusively national oversight. Judgment: AMLD6 Arts 11-13 and 15 (BO register access harmonisation) transpose by 10 July 2026; Spain has made no transposition act yet this cycle. Probable Judgment: No ES-specific enabler-jurisdiction finding this cycle despite search. Uncertain Judgment: No ES-specific conflict-finance finding this cycle despite search. Uncertain #### Crypto / Digital Assets / Financial Innovation Spain has closed a supervisory gap that had sat between its licensing regime for crypto-asset service providers and its anti-money-laundering regime proper. Royal Decree-law 25/2026, in force from 1 October 2026, amends article 2(1)(z) of Law 10/2010 so that all crypto-asset service providers are now obliged entities under that law, placing them squarely within the same reporting, due-diligence and supervisory framework that applies to banks and other traditional financial institutions. This is a confirmed finding and marks a deliberate act of regulatory convergence: licensing authorisation under the EU Markets in Crypto-Assets framework runs through the CNMV, while anti-money-laundering supervision has always run through SEPBLAC, and the two had not previously been formally linked at the point of authorisation. Continue reading The same instrument gives that convergence teeth. A breach of the Travel Rule, the obligation under EU Regulation 2023/1113 that information accompanying a transfer of crypto-assets travel with the transfer itself, is now classified in Spain as a serious infringement, carrying a minimum fine of sixty thousand euros. That is a meaningful floor: it signals that Travel Rule non-compliance is being treated with the same seriousness as other serious infringements under the anti-money-laundering framework, not as a lesser technical lapse specific to the sector's novelty. The decree also provides that SEPBLAC will report on the adequacy of a crypto-asset service provider's anti-money-laundering controls as part of the CNMV's own authorisation procedure, meaning that AML adequacy becomes, in effect, a precondition tested at the point of market entry rather than assessed only after a firm is already operating. For firms and counterparties operating in or through the Spanish market, the practical consequence is that the previously bifurcated compliance posture, one track for MiCA authorisation and a separate, looser track for anti-money-laundering exposure, no longer holds. A crypto-asset service provider seeking or holding CNMV authorisation in Spain is now accountable to SEPBLAC on the same obliged-entity footing as a bank, and a Travel Rule failure carries a defined and non-trivial financial consequence from the outset rather than an uncertain one. This is the kind of structural tightening that is more significant over time than any single enforcement action, because it changes the default compliance baseline for an entire sector rather than sanctioning one firm's past conduct. #### Outlook The open question going forward is less about the legal designation, which took effect on 1 October 2026 and is now settled, than about how the SEPBLAC adequacy-reporting function operates in practice inside the CNMV authorisation pipeline. Firms currently licensed or seeking licence under the Markets in Crypto-Assets framework in Spain should expect that pipeline to now carry an anti-money-laundering adequacy check as a substantive rather than nominal step. The minimum sixty-thousand-euro fine for Travel Rule breaches sets a baseline exposure that providers moving value between Spanish-licensed platforms and counterparties elsewhere will need to factor into their own compliance architecture, particularly where counterparties sit outside jurisdictions with equivalent information-accompanying-transfer obligations. Judgment: RDL 25/2026 (in force 1 Oct 2026) makes all CASPs obliged entities under Ley 10/2010 and classifies Travel Rule breaches as serious infringements with a minimum €60,000 fine. Probable Judgment: No ES-specific RegTech/compliance-technology development identified this cycle. Uncertain #### AML/CTF Regime The core institutional development this period is Real Decreto 813/2026, which enters into force on 28 October 2026 and reforms the regulation implementing Law 10/2010, known as Real Decreto 304/2014, by amending eleven financial royal decrees in a single coordinated act. Three elements of that reform stand out as structural rather than incidental. First, non-face-to-face customer identification procedures must now meet minimum standards set by SEPBLAC, closing what had been a softer area of the due-diligence framework as remote onboarding has grown. Second, the term of the SEPBLAC Director is now fixed at six years, non-renewable, which is an institutional-capacity and independence safeguard rather than a substantive AML control, but one that speaks to how the supervisory authority itself is governed over time. Third, and most consequential for the obliged-entity population as a whole, the reform eliminates the exemption that had let small obliged entities avoid designating a SEPBLAC representative, meaning that entities previously too small to be required to maintain that direct supervisory liaison must now do so. Continue reading This institutional reform sits alongside two enforcement matters that, while not anti-money-laundering findings in the narrow sense, belong in the same confirmed enforcement record for the period. The Banco de España fined CBNK Banco de Colectivos, S.A. and four of its board members a combined 369,600 euros for a very serious infringement of remuneration-policy rules concerning senior-management pension-savings contributions. Separately, the CNMV fined an unnamed investment firm and three directors a combined 1,048,000 euros for very serious infringements relating to the protection of client funds; this finding currently rests on press reporting rather than on an independently retrieved primary notice from the official gazette, and is carried at a probable rather than a confirmed level of confidence pending that retrieval. The regime also carries a pending obligation that the recent domestic reforms have not yet addressed. Articles 11, 12, 13 and 15 of the sixth EU Anti-Money Laundering Directive, concerning harmonised access to the beneficial-ownership register, required transposition by 10 July 2026. No Spanish transposition act for those specific provisions has been identified. Real Decreto 813/2026 and Royal Decree-law 25/2026 both strengthen adjacent parts of the architecture, SEPBLAC's institutional standing and the crypto-asset obliged-entity perimeter respectively, but neither substitutes for that transposition, and the gap should be read as a distinct and still-open item against the wider EU Anti-Money Laundering Package timetable, under which the directly applicable Anti-Money Laundering Regulation itself is due to apply from 10 July 2027. #### Outlook Two dated milestones now sit on the horizon. Previously exempt small obliged entities have until 28 July 2027 to complete designation or communication of a SEPBLAC representative, a consequence flowing from the removal of their exemption under Real Decreto 813/2026, and one that firms in that population should treat as a distinct compliance deadline separate from the reform's own 28 October 2026 entry into force. The more immediate and unresolved item is the outstanding transposition of the sixth Directive's beneficial-ownership access provisions, overdue against a 10 July 2026 deadline, which remains the clearest open item in Spain's anti-money-laundering regime as at the most recent reporting date. Judgment: RD 813/2026 reforms SEPBLAC's institutional architecture and non-face-to-face ID standards, and removes the small-obliged-entity exemption from designating a SEPBLAC representative, in force 28 October 2026. Probable Judgment: No integrity-sector commercial transaction identified for Spain this cycle. Uncertain Regulatory horizon Consultation 2027 · ±year ### Anteproyecto de Ley de medidas integrales en materia de prevención del blanqueo de capitales A comprehensive new AML/CFT/CPF statute is being drafted to replace Ley 10/2010; public consultation closed 30 September 2026, with no published bill text yet [Ministerio de Economía, Comercio y Empresa (Spain) Source](https://acountaxmadrid.es/anteproyecto-ley-prevencion-blanqueo-capitales-novedades-2026/) In Force Pending 2027-Q3 · ±quarter ### Small-obliged-entity SEPBLAC-representative exemption removal (RD 813/2026) Deadline for designation/communication of a SEPBLAC representative for formerly-exempt small entities is 28 July 2027. [Source](https://summons.es/novedades-regulatorias-pbcyft-amla-mica-2026/) Proposed 2027-Q4 · ±half_year ### Spain FATF 5th-round Mutual Evaluation FATF's possible onsite evaluation window is February 2027 with possible Plenary discussion in October 2027 [FATF Source](https://www.fatf-gafi.org/en/calendars/assessments.html) Proposed 2028 · ±multi_year ### FATF 5th-round mutual evaluation of Spain (anticipated) Spain's next full mutual evaluation, under the stricter 2022 FATF Methodology, will re-test technical-compliance and effectiveness gains since 2014, with expected scrutiny on DNFBP/gatekeeper supervision, BO transparency, and targeted financial sanctions implementation. [Source](https://www.fatf-gafi.org/en/calendars/assessments.html) 4 dated · 4 pending date · baseline fim-2026-07-08 Role action cards MLRO ### Spain now treats all crypto-asset service providers as AML obliged entities, with a defined Travel Rule penalty floor. From 1 October 2026, obligations including suspicious-activity reporting and due diligence apply to crypto-asset service providers on the same footing as banks, and a Travel Rule breach carries a minimum fine of sixty thousand euros as a serious infringement. 2 evidence refs Compliance ### SEPBLAC architecture has been reformed and small-entity exemptions removed. Real Decreto 813/2026, in force 28 October 2026, sets minimum standards for non-face-to-face identification, fixes SEPBLAC leadership tenure, and requires previously exempt small obliged entities to designate a SEPBLAC representative, with a further deadline of 28 July 2027 for that designation. 1 evidence refs Legal ### A beneficial-ownership transposition deadline has passed without a Spanish transposition act. Articles 11, 12, 13 and 15 of the sixth EU Anti-Money Laundering Directive required transposition by 10 July 2026; no transposition act has been identified, which carries exposure under the wider EU timetable. 1 evidence refs Board ### Two parallel enforcement actions and two structural AML reforms define the period. The institutional strengthening of SEPBLAC and the crypto-asset obliged-entity designation both raise the compliance baseline across sectors, while separate fines against a bank and an investment firm show continued active enforcement in adjacent prudential and conduct areas. 4 evidence refs CTO ### Crypto-asset platforms licensed in Spain now face a linked AML adequacy check inside the authorisation pipeline. SEPBLAC will report on AML control adequacy as part of the CNMV authorisation procedure, meaning platform and compliance infrastructure for Travel Rule data handling becomes a factor assessed at the point of market entry, not only after the fact. 1 evidence refs Risk ### Structural tightening across AML institutional architecture and the crypto-asset perimeter outweighs individual enforcement actions this period. The SEPBLAC reform and the crypto-asset obliged-entity designation both represent durable baseline shifts in exposure concentration rather than one-off incidents, while the outstanding beneficial-ownership transposition remains an open structural gap. 3 evidence refs Operations ### Non-face-to-face identification standards and Travel Rule screening thresholds have changed. Transaction-monitoring and onboarding workflows must now reflect SEPBLAC minimum standards for remote identification and the serious-infringement classification of Travel Rule breaches, both of which affect day-to-day screening and escalation thresholds. 2 evidence refs Audit ### Documentation gaps exist around one investment-firm enforcement finding and the pending beneficial-ownership transposition. The CNMV client-funds fine rests on press reporting rather than a verified primary notice, and the overdue beneficial-ownership transposition represents an open item that audit scope should track against the applicable EU deadline. 2 evidence refs Scenario sketches ### Travel Rule arbitrage pressure following the Spanish obliged-entity designation One illustrative pathway worth orienting against is that as Spanish-licensed crypto-asset service providers absorb obliged-entity status and the associated Travel Rule penalty floor, counterparties seeking to avoid information-accompanying-transfer obligations could route value preferentially through providers licensed in jurisdictions that have not yet reached an equivalent designation. This is a structural possibility suggested by the shape of the reform, not an observed pattern or a prediction of future conduct. Illustrative scenario for analytical orientation only. Not compliance advice, not a prediction, and not a statement of observed fact. Standing trackers (T1–T6) Tracker Status Note T1 · Russian Sanctions-Evasion Architecture no_change No ES-specific material change found this cycle. T2 · EU AML Package / AMLA watch AMLD6 Arts 11-13/15 transpose by 10 July 2026; AMLR applies directly 10 July 2027; RD 813/2026 and RDL 25/2026 are domestic pre-positioning moves ahead of that calendar. T3 · FATF Grey List no_change No ES-specific FATF plenary or mutual-evaluation movement found this cycle; Spain is not on the FATF grey list. T4 · Beneficial-Ownership Register Status no_change No ES-specific BO-register development found this cycle beyond the pending AMLD6 transposition deadline. T5 · Crypto & Digital-Asset Integrity escalating RDL 25/2026 (in force 1 Oct 2026) makes all CASPs obliged entities and classifies Travel Rule breaches as serious infringements (min. €60,000 fine). T6 · Sanctions Regime Divergence no_change RDL 7/2026's amendment to Ley 10/2010 art. 42 remains the operative ES mechanism; no new divergence identified this cycle. Registers ### Enforcement actions - 13 Jan 2026 - 23 Jan 2026 - 21 Jan 2025 - 6 Mar 2025 - 31 Jan 2025 - 20 Mar 2026 - 6 Oct 2026 - 19 Oct 2026 - Sepblac imposed several fines totalling more than EUR 30 million on CaixaBank for AML deficiencies connected to a high-value commercial property (skyscraper) sale, among the highest penalty amounts the agency has ever imposed. 13 Jan 2026 - Sepblac fined Banco Santander more than EUR 40 million over past AML process deficiencies at its digital banking unit Openbank; the penalty amount was calibrated to the bank's size rather than the underlying seriousness of the deficiencies. 23 Jan 2026 - Spanish National Police, coordinated with Portuguese authorities via Europol, arrested 14 people running a hawala-based money-laundering operation processing several million euros monthly for organised crime groups from multiple countries, seizing over EUR 1 million in cash and cryptocurrencies during a January raid on nine properties. 21 Jan 2025 - CNMV granted BBVA regulatory approval to provide custody and execution services in Bitcoin and Ether to retail clients, formalising a major domestic bank's entry into MiCA-regulated crypto-asset services. 10 Mar 2025 ### Sanctions changes - 23 Oct 2025 - 18 Dec 2025 - 1 Jan 2025 - The EU's 19th Russia sanctions package (applicable in Spain as an EU Member State) imposed a full transaction ban on Rosneft and Gazprom Neft, a phased LNG import ban, 117 additional shadow-fleet vessel listings (bringing the EU total to 557), and, for the first time, sanctions targeting crypto infrastructure (the A7A5 stablecoin and its Kyrgyz issuer/trading platform). 23 Oct 2025 - The EU Council sanctioned 41 additional shadow-fleet vessels and, days earlier, 9 shadow-fleet enablers (businessmen linked to Rosneft/Lukoil and UAE/Vietnam/Russia-based shipping companies), bringing the total designated shadow-fleet vessel count to almost 600 as part of the EU's escalating effort to curb Russian oil revenue. 18 Dec 2025 - Spanish authorities, implementing EU Regulation 269/2014 asset-freeze designations, froze a Spanish villa beneficially linked to a sanctioned Russian individual (Boris Rotenberg) after leaked documents showed lawyers and corporate service providers had structured ownership through intermediary entities to obscure the connection. 1 Jan 2025 ### Regulatory horizon (register) - FATF 5th-round mutual evaluation of Spain (anticipated) - DAC8 first cross-border reporting cycle - MiCA transitional-period close-out for legacy VASPs - Anteproyecto de Ley de medidas integrales en materia de prevención del blanqueo de capitales - Spain FATF 5th-round Mutual Evaluation - RD 813/2026 crypto-ATM / CDD obligations in force - CNMV draft Circular extending complaints procedure to CASP/crowdfunding clients - ANIFI creation bill (AML authority reform) - FATF/GAFI mutual evaluation of Spain (new round) - AMLD6 Arts 11, 12, 13, 15 transposition (beneficial-ownership register access) - Small-obliged-entity SEPBLAC-representative exemption removal (RD 813/2026) - MiCA transitional period for CASPs closes - EU AML Regulation (AMLR) becomes directly applicable - 6AMLD transposition deadline for Spain - AMLA begins direct supervision of high-risk cross-border entities - FATF 5th-round mutual evaluation of Spain (anticipated) ### Active schemes - [HIGH] Russian PEP/oligarch real-estate structuring via offshore SPVs - [HIGH] Cash-to-crypto laundering pipeline for organised crime - Hawala-based laundering for cross-border organised crime - Legacy golden-visa residency-by-investment channel Sources - [FATF Procedures for AML/CFT/CPF Mutual Evaluations, ...](https://www.fatf-gafi.org/content/dam/fatf/documents/methodology/5th-Round-Procedures.pdf) - [https://www.cnmv.es/webservices/verdocumento/ver?t=%7B0d75d8da-5eeb-40d8-b0cd-5a5133dcc1d8%7D](https://www.cnmv.es/webservices/verdocumento/ver?t=%7B0d75d8da-5eeb-40d8-b0cd-5a5133dcc1d8%7D) - [https://sede.agenciatributaria.gob.es/Sede/en_gb/normativa-criterios-interpretativos/analisis/2026/abril/29/reglamento-mica-abril-2026-nuevo-ue.html](https://sede.agenciatributaria.gob.es/Sede/en_gb/normativa-criterios-interpretativos/analisis/2026/abril/29/reglamento-mica-abril-2026-nuevo-ue.html) - [https://www.fatf-gafi.org/en/countries/detail/Spain.html](https://www.fatf-gafi.org/en/countries/detail/Spain.html) - [FATF](https://www.fatf-gafi.org/en/countries/detail/Spain.html) - [FATF Fourth Follow-Up Report, Spain](https://www.fatf-gafi.org/content/dam/fatf-gafi/fur/FoR%20Spain.pdf) - [CNMV](https://www.cnmv.es/docportal/Legislacion/FAQ/FAQ_MICA.pdf) - [Boletín Oficial del Estado](https://www.boe.es/buscar/act.php?id=BOE-A-2018-16673) - [Citadel365](https://citadel365.com/blogs/fatf-june-2026-update-grey-list-and-black-list-changes/) - [https://www.boe.es/diario_boe/txt.php?id=BOE-A-2026-20915](https://www.boe.es/diario_boe/txt.php?id=BOE-A-2026-20915) - [https://acountaxmadrid.es/anteproyecto-ley-prevencion-blanqueo-capitales-novedades-2026/](https://acountaxmadrid.es/anteproyecto-ley-prevencion-blanqueo-capitales-novedades-2026/) - [https://www.elespanol.com/invertia/economia/macroeconomia/20261008/economia-acelera-reformas-refuerza-control-notarias-criptocajeros-apuestas-blanqueo/1003744411789_0.html](https://www.elespanol.com/invertia/economia/macroeconomia/20261008/economia-acelera-reformas-refuerza-control-notarias-criptocajeros-apuestas-blanqueo/1003744411789_0.html) - [https://www.fatf-gafi.org/en/calendars/assessments.html](https://www.fatf-gafi.org/en/calendars/assessments.html) - [https://amluae.com/fatf-grey-list-countries-update-19th-june-2026/](https://amluae.com/fatf-grey-list-countries-update-19th-june-2026/) - [https://www.ibanet.org/Tracking-FATF-compliance-in-North-America](https://www.ibanet.org/Tracking-FATF-compliance-in-North-America) - [https://www.boe.es/boe/dias/2026/10/08/pdfs/BOE-A-2026-20915.pdf](https://www.boe.es/boe/dias/2026/10/08/pdfs/BOE-A-2026-20915.pdf) - [https://pich.bnfix.com/prevencion-del-blanqueo-de-capitales-nuevas-obligaciones-a-partir-del-28-de-octubre/](https://pich.bnfix.com/prevencion-del-blanqueo-de-capitales-nuevas-obligaciones-a-partir-del-28-de-octubre/) - [https://atlas.pimlicosolutions.com/news/sepblac-publishes-national-risk-assessment-2026-to-guide-spain-aml-risk-based-me-msdg1l4v](https://atlas.pimlicosolutions.com/news/sepblac-publishes-national-risk-assessment-2026-to-guide-spain-aml-risk-based-me-msdg1l4v) - [https://one-constellation.com/blog/mica-casp-authorisation-after-transition/](https://one-constellation.com/blog/mica-casp-authorisation-after-transition/) - [https://hokenfi.com/en/mica-spain-timeline-status-2026/](https://hokenfi.com/en/mica-spain-timeline-status-2026/) - [https://criptoinforme.com/legal/cnmv-reclamaciones-exchanges-cripto-consulta/](https://criptoinforme.com/legal/cnmv-reclamaciones-exchanges-cripto-consulta/) - [Boletín Oficial del Estado (BOE)](https://www.boe.es/boe/dias/2026/10/08/pdfs/BOE-A-2026-20915.pdf) - [Uría Menéndez](https://www.uria.com/es/publicaciones/newsletter/2089-publico) - [La Moncloa (Gobierno de España)](https://www.lamoncloa.gob.es/consejodeministros/referencias/paginas/2026/20260728-referencia-rueda-de-prensa-ministros.aspx) - [Colegio de Registradores (blog)](https://blog.registradores.org/en/-/el-gafi-destaca-al-registro-de-titularidades-reales) - [Infobae / EFE](https://www.infobae.com/espana/agencias/2025/03/06/el-sepblac-multa-con-39-millones-de-euros-a-ing-espana-por-incumplir-la-ley-antiblanqueo/) - [Infobae / EFE](https://www.infobae.com/espana/agencias/2025/01/31/el-sepblac-impone-una-multa-de-mas-de-600000-euros-a-banca-march-que-recurre-la-sancion/) - [SEPBLAC](https://sepblac.es/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/ActivityReport2024-.pdf?x34493=) - [Agile Control Solutions](https://agilecontrolsolutions.com/datos-actividades-sepblac-2025/) - [Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado / CNMV](https://www.boe.es/boe/dias/2026/03/20/pdfs/BOE-A-2026-6540.pdf) - [Secretaría General del Tesoro y Financiación Internacional](https://www.tesoro.es/sites/default/files/publicaciones/International%20Financial%20Sanctions%20.pdf) - [Global Investigations Review](https://globalinvestigationsreview.com/guide/the-guide-sanctions/seventh-edition/article/spains-evolving-sanctions-landscape-landmark-criminalisation-bill-signals-new-enforcement-era) - [Uría Menéndez](https://www.uria.com/documentos/circulares/1706/documento/13351/Nota_ESP.pdf?id=13351&forceDownload=true) - [Ministerio de Hacienda](https://www.hacienda.gob.es/DocLeyes/onlinelt/23772.htm) - [Global Legal Post](https://www.globallegalpost.com/lawoverborders/cryptoassets-law-guide-1030040461/spain-690345573) - [Cryptoslate](https://cryptoslate.com/crypto-laws/eu-transfer-of-funds-regulation-2023-1113/) - [Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado](https://www.boe.es/buscar/act.php?id=BOE-A-2023-7053) - [EFPA España](https://www.asesoresfinancierosefpa.es/destacados/el-banco-de-espana-crea-un-registro-obligatorio-para-proveedores-de-servicios-de-criptomonedas/) - [Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado](https://www.boe.es/boe/dias/2010/04/29/pdfs/BOE-A-2010-6737.pdf) - [SEPBLAC](https://www.sepblac.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Ley_10_2010-consolidada.pdf) - [SEPBLAC](https://www.sepblac.es/en/legislation/national-legislation/) - [Tesoro Público (Secretaría General del Tesoro y Financiación Internacional)](https://www.tesoro.es/en/secretaria-general-del-tesoro-y-politica-financiera) - [Valencia Plaza](https://valenciaplaza.com/valenciaplaza/bolsas/el-banco-de-espana-dispara-sus-sanciones-en-2025-hasta-los-43-millones-de-euros) - [El Debate](https://www.eldebate.com/economia/20260407/banco-espana-multiplico-17-sanciones-2025-hasta-43-millones-euros_404009.html) - [Última Hora](https://www.ultimahora.es/noticias/local/2025/01/31/2316709/sepblac-multa-605000-euros-banca-march-por-infringir-normativa-antiblanqueo-cuestion-formal.html) - [Press Digital](https://www.pressdigital.es/articulo/economia/2025-03-06/5206077-sepblac-multa-39-millones-euros-ing-espana-infraccion-muy-grave-ley-antiblanqueo) - [Conversia](https://www.conversia.org/lpbc/gafi-opina-espana-lider-contra-blanqueo-de-capitales/) - [Sepblac](https://www.sepblac.es/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/MEMORIA-DE-ACTIVIDADES-2022_2023.pdf) - [Consejo General de Economistas de España](https://economistes.org/prevencion-del-blanqueo-de-capitales/) - [Forvis Mazars](https://www.forvismazars.com/es/es/insights/articulos/rd-813-2026-prevencion-del-blanqueo-de-capitales) - [Finreg360](https://finreg360.com/alerta/el-proyecto-de-real-decreto-que-modifica-el-reglamento-de-prevencion-del-blanqueo-esta-en-periodo-de-audiencia-publica/) - [Roca Junyent](https://www.rocajunyent.com/es/eventos-y-publicaciones/alertas/anteproyecto-ley-organica-integridad-publica-claves-prevencion) - [Checklynx](https://checklynx.com/es/resources/knowledge-base/sepblac-sanctions-screening-spain) - [SEPBLAC](https://www.sepblac.es/en/2026/03/09/activity-data-2025/) - [Intedya](https://www.intedya.com/internacional/4864/noticia-el-sepblac-publica-su-memoria-2024-auge-del-fraude-digital-supervision-reforzada-y-adaptacion-al-nuevo-marco-europeo-contra-el-blanqueo.html) - [LawOratory](https://laworatory.com/brecha-de-seguridad-notificacion-aepd-nis2-2026/) - [Boletín Oficial del Estado (BOE)](https://www.boe.es/buscar/pdf/2010/BOE-A-2010-6737-consolidado.pdf) - [Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado (BOE)](https://boe.es/buscar/pdf/2014/BOE-A-2014-4742-consolidado.pdf) - [Iberley](https://www.iberley.es/revista/la-limitacion-los-pagos-efectivo-1-000-euros-como-aplicarla-ciertos-supuestos-dudosos-1514) - [Zarco Asesoría](https://zarcoasesoria.com/nuevas-limitaciones-a-los-pagos-en-efectivo/) - [Agencia Tributaria (AEAT)](https://sede.agenciatributaria.gob.es/Sede/colaborar-agencia-tributaria/denuncias/denuncia-pagos-efectivo.html) - [ASNEF](https://www.asnef.com/media/1883/5098_novedades-rdl-blanqueo-capitales.pdf) - [Fabián Zambrano Viedma (blog)](https://fabianzambranoviedma.blogspot.com/2016/12/el-umbral-de-los-1000-euros-en-la_5.html) - [Molina Law Boutique](https://www.molinalawboutique.es/blog/diligencia-debida-pbc-niveles) - [Noticias Jurídicas](https://noticias.juridicas.com/base_datos/Privado/767546-rd-609-2023-de-11-jul-se-crea-el-registro-central-de-titularidades-reales.html) - [Lawants](https://www.lawants.com/en/reform-ultimate-beneficial-owner-registry-spain/) - [Molina Law Boutique](https://www.molinalawboutique.es/en/beneficial-ownership-spain) - [Palacín, Hernández & Crespo Abogados](https://estudiolegal1994.com/registro-central-de-titularidades-reales/) - [SEPBLAC](https://www.sepblac.es/en/obliged-subjects/obligations/reporting-obligations/) - [Iberley](https://www.iberley.es/temas/comunicacion-servicio-ejecutivo-comision-operaciones-relacionadas-blanqueo-financiacion-terrorismo-63450) - [Iberley](https://www.iberley.es/legislacion/articulo-24-prevencion-blanqueo-capitales-financiacion-terrorismo) - [European Banking Authority](https://www.eba.europa.eu/sites/default/files/2024-07/6de6e9b9-0ed9-49cd-985d-c0834b5b4356/Travel%20Rule%20Guidelines.pdf) - [Recovera](https://recovera.es/travel-rule-criptomonedas/) - [Consejo General de la Abogacía Española](https://www.abogacia.es/actualidad/opinion-y-analisis/principales-novedades-del-paquete-aml/) - [Secretaría General del Tesoro y Financiación Internacional](https://www.tesoro.es/sites/default/files/sanciones_financieras_internacionales._cuestiones_generales_y_procedimientos_especiales_en_materia_de_no_proliferacion_4.pdf) - [Pérez-Llorca](https://www.perezllorca.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Nota-Juridica-19o-Paquete-de-medidas-restrictivas-de-la-Union-Europea-contra-Rusia-y-Bielorrusia.pdf) - [SEPBLAC / Comisión de Prevención del Blanqueo de Capitales e Infracciones Monetarias](https://www.sepblac.es/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/guia_orientativa_relaciones_de_corresponsalia.pdf) - [Notarios y Registradores](https://www.notariosyregistradores.com/doctrina/resumenes/2014-blanqueo-reglamento.htm) - [Verisafe AML](https://www.verisafeaml.com/blog/obligaciones-sujeto-obligado-ley-10-2010) - [BOE (Diario Oficial de la Unión Europea mirror)](https://www.boe.es/buscar/doc.php?id=DOUE-L-2014-81277) - [Ramón y Cajal Abogados](https://www.ramonycajalabogados.es/es/adaptacion-de-la-ley-del-mercado-de-valores-al-reglamento-sobre-abuso-de-mercado) - [CNMV](https://www.cnmv.es/portal/verDoc.axd?t=%7Bdae21854-95c2-4a2d-846c-c7b1c73d0e8a%7D) - [Molina Law Boutique](https://www.molinalawboutique.es/reglamento-mar) - [Conceptos Jurídicos](https://www.conceptosjuridicos.com/articulos/codigo-penal-articulo-31-bis/) - [Código Penal Español (portal)](https://www.codigopenalespanol.com/codigo-penal-articulo-31-bis/) - [Prevenir Blanqueo](https://prevenirblanqueo.com/guia-ley-10-2010) - [Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado (BOE)](https://www.boe.es/buscar/act.php?id=BOE-A-2010-6737) - [SEPBLAC](https://www.sepblac.es/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/sujetos_obligados_ley_10_2010.pdf?x34493=) - [Noticias Jurídicas](https://noticias.juridicas.com/actualidad/noticias/13284-los-profesionales-que-prestan-servicios-a-empresas-deben-apuntarse-en-el-registro-mercantil/) - [Pacto Mundial / Red Española del Pacto Mundial](https://www.pactomundial.org/leyes-directivas-normativas-sostenibilidad/ley-2-2023-reguladora-de-la-proteccion-de-las-personas-que-informen-sobre-infracciones-normativas-y-de-lucha-contra-la-corrupcion/) - [Protección Data](https://protecciondata.es/resumen-ley-2-2023-de-20-de-febrero/) - [Transparencia Internacional España](https://transparencia.org.es/que-hacemos/nuestras-prioridades/whistleblowing/) - [Criptoinforme](https://criptoinforme.com/legal/bruselas-expedientes-espana-dac8-travel-rule-criptomonedas/) - [Spain](https://www.fatf-gafi.org/en/countries/detail/Spain.html) - [Anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing measures Spain](https://www.fatf-gafi.org/content/dam/fatf-gafi/fur/Follow-Up-Assessment-Spain-2019.pdf) - [FATF GUIDANCE Money Laundering National Risk Assessment Guidance November 2024](https://www.fatf-gafi.org/content/dam/fatf-gafi/reports/Money-Laundering-National-Risk-Assessment-Guidance-2024.pdf.coredownload.inline.pdf) - [Money Laundering National Risk Assessment Guidance](https://www.fatf-gafi.org/en/publications/Methodsandtrends/Money-Laundering-National-Risk-Assessment-Guidance.html) - [Public consultation on FATF Money Laundering National Risk Assessment Guidance Update](https://www.fatf-gafi.org/en/publications/Fatfrecommendations/FATF-NRA-National-Risk-Assessments-Guidance-Public-Consultation-2024.html) - [Money laundering and terrorist financing risks](https://www.fatf-gafi.org/en/publications/Methodsandtrends/Ml-tf-risks.html) - [National money laundering and terrorist financing risk assessment](https://www.fatf-gafi.org/en/publications/Methodsandtrends/Nationalmoneylaunderingandterroristfinancingriskassessment.html) - [Spain has strong measures to combat money laundering and terrorist financing but improvements needed, says FATF](https://www.fatf-gafi.org/en/publications/Mutualevaluations/Spain-strong-aml-cft-measures-but-improvements-needed.html) - [CaixaBank Fined by Spain's Money Laundering Watchdog on Skyscraper Sale - Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-13/caixabank-fined-by-money-laundering-watchdog-on-skyscraper-sale) - [Mutual Evaluation Fourth Follow-Up Report](https://www.fatf-gafi.org/content/dam/fatf-gafi/fur/FoR%20Spain.pdf) - [Mutual Evaluation of Spain](https://www.fatf-gafi.org/en/publications/Mutualevaluations/Mutualevaluationofspain.html) - [Follow-up Report to the Mutual Evaluation Report of Spain](https://www.fatf-gafi.org/en/publications/mutualevaluations/documents/follow-upreporttothemutualevaluationreportofspain.html) - [Mutual Evaluations](https://www.fatf-gafi.org/en/topics/mutual-evaluations.html) - [Outcomes FATF Plenary, 11-13 February 2026](https://www.fatf-gafi.org/en/publications/Fatfgeneral/outcomes-FATF-plenary-february-2026.html) - [Spain’s measures to combat money laundering and terrorist financing](https://www.fatf-gafi.org/en/publications/mutualevaluations/documents/mer-spain-2014.html) - [The FATF Recommendations](https://www.fatf-gafi.org/en/publications/Fatfrecommendations/Fatf-recommendations.html) - [Consolidated Processes and Procedures for Mutual Evaluations and Follow-Up Universal Procedures](https://www.fatf-gafi.org/en/publications/Fatfgeneral/Universal-procedures.html) - [FATF](https://www.fatf-gafi.org/en/home.html) - [Santander Fined More Than €40 Million Over Openbank Processes - Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-23/santander-fined-more-than-40-million-over-openbank-processes) - [Anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing measures - Spain](https://www.fatf-gafi.org/content/dam/fatf-gafi/mer/3-Legal-systems-and-operational-issues-Mutual-Evaluation-Spain-2014.pdf) - [Spain: Former Managers of Chinese Bank Jailed for Money Laundering | OCCRP](https://www.occrp.org/en/news/spain-former-managers-of-chinese-bank-jailed-for-money-laundering) - [Special Measures | FinCEN.gov](https://www.fincen.gov/resources/statutes-and-regulations/special-measures) - [Leading Spanish Banks Launch Fraud Prevention Platform | OCCRP](https://www.occrp.org/en/news/leading-spanish-banks-launch-fraud-prevention-platform) - ["Black and grey" lists](https://www.fatf-gafi.org/en/countries/black-and-grey-lists.html) - [Sanctions on Russian Oligarchs: Spain Imposes Penalties on Real Estate - Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-17/spain-applying-sanctions-on-russian-oligarchs-real-estate-pm) - [European getaway: Inside the murky world of golden visas | Global Witness](https://globalwitness.org/fr/campaigns/corruption-and-money-laundering/european-getaway) - [Spain, Portugal Bust Russian-Led Money Laundering Ring | OCCRP](https://www.occrp.org/en/news/spain-portugal-bust-russian-led-money-laundering-ring) - [Spain Weighs Tighter Golden Visa Rules For Real Estate Investors - Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-08/spain-weighs-tighter-golden-visa-rules-for-real-estate-investors) - [Spain: Crackdown on Russian/Ukrainian Money Launderers | OCCRP](https://www.occrp.org/en/news/spain-crackdown-on-russianukrainian-money-launderers) - [The Troika Laundromat | OCCRP](https://www.occrp.org/en/project/the-troika-laundromat) - [EU member states in race to the bottom to sell Golden Visas to the super-rich | Global Witness](https://www.globalwitness.org/fr/press-releases/eu-member-states-race-bottom-sell-golden-visas-super-rich/) - [Russian Oligarch Boris Rotenberg Spent Years Trying to Hide His Spanish Villa. 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Virtual Asset Service Provider - Chainalysis](https://www.chainalysis.com/glossary/virtual-asset-service-provider/) - [Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP): Definition, Compliance & Examples](https://www.trmlabs.com/glossary/virtual-asset-service-provider-vasp) - [Crypto-assets - Finance - European Commission](https://finance.ec.europa.eu/digital-finance/crypto-assets_en) - [2025 Crypto Regulatory Round-Up](https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/2025-crypto-regulatory-round-up/) - [Crypto Adoption in Europe: The World’s Largest Crypto Market](https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/europe-crypto-adoption-2025/) - [MiCA's Stablecoin Regime and Its Remaining Challenges: Part 1](https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/mica-stablecoin-regime-challenges-part-1/) - [Markets in Crypto-assets Regulation - Finance - European Commission](https://finance.ec.europa.eu/regulation-and-supervision/financial-services-legislation/implementing-and-delegated-acts/markets-crypto-assets-regulation_en) - [Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine: Council sanctions 41 vessels of the Russian shadow fleet - Consilium](https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2025/12/18/russia-s-war-of-aggression-against-ukraine-council-sanctions-41-vessels-of-the-russian-shadow-fleet/) - [Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine: Council sanctions 9 shadow fleet enablers - Consilium](https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2025/12/15/russia-s-war-of-aggression-against-ukraine-council-sanctions-9-shadow-fleet-enablers/) - [Daily News 18 / 12 / 2025](https://finance.ec.europa.eu/news/sanctions-member-states-designate-41-additional-vessels-russias-shadow-fleet-2025-12-18_en) - [Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine: EU agrees 17th package of sanctions - Consilium](https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2025/05/20/russia-s-war-of-aggression-against-ukraine-eu-agrees-17th-package-of-sanctions/) - [U.S. Levies Further Sanctions Against Russia’s ‘Shadow Fleet’ | OCCRP](https://www.occrp.org/en/news/us-levies-further-sanctions-against-russias-shadow-fleet) - [Timeline - EU sanctions against Russia - Consilium](https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/sanctions-against-russia/timeline-sanctions-against-russia/) - [Council sanctions 41 vessels of the Russian shadow fleet](https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2025/12/18/russia-s-war-of-aggression-against-ukraine-council-sanctions-41-vessels-of-the-russian-shadow-fleet/pdf/) - [EU adopts 19th package of sanctions against Russia - Finance](https://finance.ec.europa.eu/news/eu-adopts-19th-package-sanctions-against-russia-2025-10-23_en) - [19th package of sanctions against Russia: EU targets Russian energy, third-country banks and crypto providers - Consilium](https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2025/10/23/19th-package-of-sanctions-against-russia-eu-targets-russian-energy-third-country-banks-and-crypto-providers/) - [EU adopts 17th sanctions package against Russia - Enlargement and Eastern Neighbourhood](https://enlargement.ec.europa.eu/news/eu-adopts-17th-sanctions-package-against-russia-2025-05-20_en) - [Spanish Police Dismantle Europe’s Largest Money Laundering Gang | OCCRP](https://www.occrp.org/en/news/spanish-police-dismantle-europes-largest-money-laundering-gang) - [Spain’s Guardia Civil, in Coordination With T3, Disrupts Criminal Enterprise | TRM Blog](https://www.trmlabs.com/resources/blog/spains-guardia-civil-in-coordination-with-t3-disrupts-criminal-enterprise) - [FATF, Egmont Group, INTERPOL and UNODC call for stronger co-operation between countries as they launch handbook to fight money laundering](https://www.fatf-gafi.org/en/publications/Methodsandtrends/international-cooperation-against-money-laundering.html) - [Spain: Police Dismantle 2 Russian Criminal Gangs; Arrest 11 for Money Laundering | OCCRP](https://www.occrp.org/en/news/spain-police-dismantle-2-russian-criminal-gangs-arrest-11-for-money-laundering) - [Spain Arrests 19 Suspected Members of a Human Trafficking Gang | OCCRP](https://www.occrp.org/en/news/spain-arrests-19-suspected-members-of-a-human-trafficking-gang) - [International Narcotics Control Strategy Report Volume II Money Laundering](https://syntheticdrugs.unodc.org/uploads/syntheticdrugs/res/library/cybercrime_html/US_International_Narcotics_Control_Strategy_Report_Money_Laundering.pdf) - [Compendium of Good Practices on Regulatory Framework ...](https://www.unodc.org/documents/corruption/G20-Anti-Corruption-Resources/Thematic-Areas/Public-Sector-Integrity-and-Transparency/2022_G20_Compendium_on_Regulatory_Framework_and_Supervisory_Measures_for_Legal_Professionals_adopted.pdf) - [Residential Real Estate Rule | FinCEN.gov](https://www.fincen.gov/rre) - [FINANCIAL ACTION TASK FORCE Mutual Evaluation Report](https://www.fatf-gafi.org/content/dam/fatf-gafi/mer/MER%20Austria%20full.pdf.coredownload.pdf) - [Financial sanctions guidance for letting agents - GOV.UK](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/financial-sanctions-guidance-for-letting-agents/financial-sanctions-guidance-for-letting-agents) - [FATF REPORT Horizontal Review of Gatekeepers’ Technical Compliance Related](https://www.fatf-gafi.org/content/dam/fatf-gafi/reports/HRGTC.pdf.coredownload.inline.pdf) - [Jurisdictions under Increased Monitoring - 13 June 2025](https://www.fatf-gafi.org/en/publications/High-risk-and-other-monitored-jurisdictions/increased-monitoring-june-2025.html) - [Jurisdictions under Increased Monitoring - 24 October 2025](https://www.fatf-gafi.org/en/publications/High-risk-and-other-monitored-jurisdictions/increased-monitoring-october-2025.html) - [Frozen London Properties Owned By Sanctioned Russian Oligarchs](https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-sanctioned-properties-in-london/) - [JUNE 2019 GUIDANCE FOR A RISK-BASED APPROACH LEGAL PROFESSIONALS](https://www.fatf-gafi.org/content/dam/fatf-gafi/guidance/Risk-Based-Approach-Legal-Professionals.pdf.coredownload.inline.pdf) - [Beneficial Ownership Registers Interconnection System](https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/e-justice/searchBoris.do) - [TI Report: EU Beneficial Ownership Registers Limited and Restricted | OCCRP](https://www.occrp.org/en/news/ti-report-eu-beneficial-ownership-registers-limited-and-restricted) - [Patchy progress in beneficial ownership registers in the EU | Global Witness](https://globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/corruption-and-money-laundering/patchy-progress-in-setting-up-beneficial-ownership-registers-in-the-eu/) - [Tax authorities to gain access to beneficial ownership information - Consilium](https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2016/11/08/tax-authorities-access-beneficial-ownership-information/) - [Actualizado: 24 de julio de 2024 1 Red de cumplimiento de delitos financieros](https://www.fincen.gov/system/files/shared/BOI_FAQs_QA_01.2024_Spanish_v2.pdf) - [Reporte de información de beneficiarios finales](https://www.fincen.gov/system/files/shared/BOI-FAQs-Q&A-09.28.23-Spanish-508C.pdf) - [BOI FAQs Q&A Spanish](https://www.fincen.gov/sites/default/files/shared/BOI_FAQs_QA_01.2024_Spanish_v2.pdf) - [Patchy Progress in Setting Up Public Beneficial Ownership Registers in the EU | Global Witness](https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/corruption-and-money-laundering/anonymous-company-owners/5amld-patchy-progress/) - [Spain: registering as a resident and getting a TIE - GOV.UK](https://www.gov.uk/guidance/spain-registering-as-a-resident-and-getting-a-tie) - [European e-Justice Portal - Business registers in EU countries](https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/e-justice/106/EN/business_registers_in_eu_countries?member=1) - [Anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing measures Spain](https://www.fatf-gafi.org/media/fatf/documents/reports/fur/Follow-Up-Assessment-Spain-2019.pdf) - [5-Preventive-measures-Mutual Evaluation-Spain-2014. ...](https://www.fatf-gafi.org/content/dam/fatf-gafi/mer/5-Preventive-measures-Mutual%20Evaluation-Spain-2014.pdf) - [Housing in Europe – 2024 edition - Interactive publications - Eurostat](https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/interactive-publications/housing-2024) - [6. 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[resolved] fim-int-2026-07-07-G002: FATF has not published a scheduled … fim-int-2026-07-07-G002: FATF has not published a scheduled on-site visit date for Spain's 5th-round mutual evaluation; confirmation of the assessment calendar entry would resolve the Possible-confidence horizon estimate. [resolved] fim-int-2026-07-07-G003: No primary EU Official Journal or S… fim-int-2026-07-07-G003: No primary EU Official Journal or Spanish Boletin Oficial del Estado citation is available to substantiate the precise transposition vehicle and article-level obligations applicable to Spain's 6AMLD transposition. [resolved] fim-int-2026-07-07-G004: DNFBP (lawyer/TCSP/real-estate) sec… fim-int-2026-07-07-G004: DNFBP (lawyer/TCSP/real-estate) sector-specific onsite inspection counts post-2019 are not available in current sourcing, limiting verification of whether Spain's gatekeeper supervisory intensity has changed since the FATF follow-up assessment. [resolved] fim-int-2026-09-21-G001: No Spain-specific development surfa… fim-int-2026-09-21-G001: No Spain-specific development surfaced this cycle in sanctions architecture (D1), enabler jurisdictions (D3), or conflict finance (D4); research budget was concentrated on gambling/crypto/data-protection/payments signals for the union pass this cycle. [resolved] fim-int-2026-09-21-G002: Tier D jurisdiction watch (KH, LA, … fim-int-2026-09-21-G002: Tier D jurisdiction watch (KH, LA, MX, CO) was not actively searched this cycle; awaiting_primary_source rather than no_source. [resolved] fim-int-2026-09-21-G003 ({'scheme': 'financial_integrity', '… fim-int-2026-09-21-G003 ({'scheme': 'financial_integrity', 'value': 'D2'}): No BO-registry development surfaced for Spain (D2) this cycle; coverage gap rather than confirmed no-change. [resolved] fim-int-2026-09-28-G001 ({'scheme': 'financial_integrity', '… fim-int-2026-09-28-G001 ({'scheme': 'financial_integrity', 'value': 'D2'}): Spain-specific 6AMLD transposition status and any AMLA direct-supervision perimeter designation were not independently retrieved this cycle. [resolved] fim-int-2026-09-28-G002 ({'scheme': 'financial_integrity', '… fim-int-2026-09-28-G002 ({'scheme': 'financial_integrity', 'value': 'D1'}): No Spain-specific D1/D3/D4/D6 signal was searched this cycle; the union dispatch binds this research pass exclusively to ES per the Tier D watch exclusion. [resolved] fim-int-2026-10-12-G001 ({'scheme': 'financial_integrity', '… fim-int-2026-10-12-G001 ({'scheme': 'financial_integrity', 'value': 'D7'}): No dedicated BOE/Congress primary source was retrieved confirming the procedural effect of the Cortes dissolution on the Ley 10/2010 replacement bill; findings rest on Spanish gambling-sector and tax-adviser trade press. [resolved] fim-int-2026-10-12-G002 ({'scheme': 'financial_integrity', '… fim-int-2026-10-12-G002 ({'scheme': 'financial_integrity', 'value': 'D7'}): Laos FATF grey-list status is reported inconsistently across secondary sources this cycle; no direct FATF primary confirmation was retrieved. [resolved] fim-int-2026-10-12-G003 ({'scheme': 'financial_integrity', '… fim-int-2026-10-12-G003 ({'scheme': 'financial_integrity', 'value': 'D1'}): Tier D jurisdictions (Cambodia, Colombia) received no dedicated primary-source search this cycle given the Spain-bound scope of this dispatch and pooled search budget. [resolved] fim-int-2026-10-18-G001 ({'scheme': 'financial_integrity', '… fim-int-2026-10-18-G001 ({'scheme': 'financial_integrity', 'value': 'D1'}): No Spain-specific D1 (sanctions) finding was located this cycle beyond the general crypto-ATM tightening. [resolved] fim-int-2026-10-18-G002 ({'scheme': 'financial_integrity', '… fim-int-2026-10-18-G002 ({'scheme': 'financial_integrity', 'value': 'D3'}): No Spain-specific D3 (enabler jurisdiction) finding beyond the notarial CDD exemption removal was located this cycle. [resolved] fim-int-2026-10-18-G003: No Tier D (Cambodia, Laos, Mexico, … fim-int-2026-10-18-G003: No Tier D (Cambodia, Laos, Mexico, Colombia) corridor-nexus search was run this cycle given the Spain-bound research scope. [resolved] fim-int-2026-10-18-G004 ({'scheme': 'financial_integrity', '… fim-int-2026-10-18-G004 ({'scheme': 'financial_integrity', 'value': 'D7'}): DGOJ/Banco de España/SEPBLAC-specific sectoral AML guidance for gambling operators and payment institutions was not separately retrieved this cycle beyond the general Ley 10/2010 obliged-entity regime. [resolved] fim-int-2026-11-02-G001 ({'scheme': 'financial_integrity', '… fim-int-2026-11-02-G001 ({'scheme': 'financial_integrity', 'value': 'D8'}): Clean breakdown of obliged entities by sector and frozen/seized-asset totals not located within research budget for the commercial layer. [open] fim-int-2026-11-02-G002 ({'scheme': 'financial_integrity', '… fim-int-2026-11-02-G002 ({'scheme': 'financial_integrity', 'value': 'D7'}): Granular supervisory-practice points (compliance-tech expectations, fraud/mule-account rules, periodic review cadences) not locatable at a T1 source within budget. [open] fim-int-2026-11-01-G001: No ES-specific D3 (Enabler Jurisdic… fim-int-2026-11-01-G001: No ES-specific D3 (Enabler Jurisdictions) finding located this cycle despite search. [open] fim-int-2026-11-01-G002: No ES-specific D4 (Conflict Finance… fim-int-2026-11-01-G002: No ES-specific D4 (Conflict Finance) finding located this cycle despite search. [open] fim-int-2026-11-01-G003: D6 enforcement-gap-log detail beyon… fim-int-2026-11-01-G003: D6 enforcement-gap-log detail beyond the standing note was not located this cycle; CNMV primary notice for the investment-firm fine was not independently retrieved. [open] FIM-GAP-001 (D2): Spain's centralised beneficial-ownership r… FIM-GAP-001 (D2): Spain's centralised beneficial-ownership register remains restricted to parties demonstrating a 'legitimate interest' rather than being fully open to the public, consistent with the post-2022 CJEU (Sovim) EU-wide retreat from full public access. FIM-GAP-002 (D1): FATF's standing assessment of Spain contin… FIM-GAP-002 (D1): FATF's standing assessment of Spain continues to flag that terms of imprisonment imposed for money-laundering convictions are low relative to the volume of successful prosecutions, and that implementation of targeted financial sanctions to freeze terrorism-related assets remains a weak area. FIM-GAP-003 (D3): Historic FATF follow-up assessment found D… FIM-GAP-003 (D3): Historic FATF follow-up assessment found DNFBP supervision (lawyers, TCSPs, real estate agents) markedly less intensive than bank supervision, with only a handful of onsite inspections and remedial actions against lawyers/real-estate agents across multiple assessment years; no evidence in current reporting shows a step-change increase in gatekeeper-sector inspection intensity. FIM-GAP-004 (D6): Sepblac does not appear to proactively pub… FIM-GAP-004 (D6): Sepblac does not appear to proactively publish enforcement-action details for major penalties (the CaixaBank and Santander/Openbank fines in this baseline were reported only via sourced leaks to Bloomberg, not confirmed by Sepblac public disclosure at time of research). ## Evidence #### Confidence-tiered claims Crypto-asset service providers must obtain a prior SEPBLAC report before CNMV can grant MiCA authorisation [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source Identification is mandatory for every crypto-asset ATM transaction regardless of amount, 18-month transitional period to 8 April 2028 [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source Small real-estate credit intermediaries and other small obliged entities must now appoint a SEPBLAC representative, with a 9-month compliance deadline (28 July 2027) [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source Gambling operators must verify the payment-method holder matches the gambling-account holder before crediting or returning funds electronically; 6-month transition to 28 April 2027 [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source Spain's Ministry of Economy opened a public consultation on a comprehensive new AML/CFT/counter-proliferation-financing statute to replace Ley 10/2010 in full; consultation closed 30 September 2026, text not yet published [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source Mexico's 5th-round FATF Mutual Evaluation Report is scheduled for possible Plenary discussion in October 2026; outcome not yet published [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source Mandatory identification of crypto-asset ATM users regardless of transaction amount, from 28 October 2026 [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source Small obliged entities lose exemption from appointing a SEPBLAC representative [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source Spain's MiCA transitional period for legacy CASPs ended 1 July 2026 [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source 15 Spanish entities registered (9 authorised CASPs, 6 notified banks) as of 2 October 2026 [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source Draft Circular extending the CNMV complaints procedure to crypto-asset and crowdfunding service providers' clients; consultation opened 15 Oct 2026, closes 16 Nov 2026 [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source Spain's standing AML/CFT regime, supervised by SEPBLAC, bound directly by EU AMLR as an EU/EEA member; FATF compliant/largely compliant on 38 of 40 Recommendations as of 2018 follow-up; not on FATF grey list [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source Three financial sanctions regimes (UN, EU autonomous, EU implementing UNSC) apply directly and bind any natural/legal person immediately on designation [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source No dedicated criminal offence for breaching EU restrictive measures; handled as administrative offence under Ley 10/2010 [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source Legal entities must declare beneficial owners (≥25% threshold) to RCTIR and re-declare changes within 10 days [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source Enhanced due diligence mandatory for PEPs, their family and known associates [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source Credit institutions may not establish/maintain correspondent relationships with shell banks or banks known to allow shell banks to use their accounts [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source Firms offering crypto-asset trading, custody, portfolio management, transfer, advisory or issuance services must hold CNMV authorisation [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source Travel Rule applies to every crypto-asset transfer between EU CASPs with no de minimis threshold, unlike FATF's recommended €/$1,000 [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source 2026-10-28 [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source 2026-07-28 [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source Moderate_to_Substantial [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source 3910000 [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source 605424 [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source 24320 [[Source 1]](#sec-sources) Probable · 1 source