The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) adopted Mexico's mutual evaluation report on October 30, 2026, at its Paris plenary and announced that its results will be published in December, according to Bloomberg Línea. The document measures the country's effectiveness against money laundering, terrorist financing and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

Before seeing the light, the report goes through a final quality and consistency review. The evaluation is part of the FATF's Fifth Round, which began in 2025 and, according to the body, involves processes lasting more than 15 months. Mexico has remained under enhanced follow-up since the 2018 evaluation. For Mexico it matters because banks, brokerages and exporting companies operate with counterparts in the United States and Europe that closely track this kind of international rating.

The evaluation team visited the country in March, according to El CEO, and each country receives a roadmap with actions to complete within three years. The plenary also assessed the United States, and both cases move forward in parallel toward the follow-up processes.

FATF President Giles Thomson noted that, once the reports are published, "the road does not end there" for the two countries and that each "will be placed in one of the body's follow-up processes." Finance and Public Credit Secretary Édgar Amador said the result is expected in December and that government agencies are working to document compliance with the international standard. In parallel, Mexicans with business interests offer their reading: Sandro García Rojas Castillo, former vice president of Supervision of Preventive Processes at the National Banking and Securities Commission, told El CEO that the challenge is to turn measures into "investigations, sentences and asset recovery that can be measured." Ramón Cabrera León, a lawyer specializing in tax and financial matters, warned that failing to address what the FATF asks for implies greater financial restrictions for operating internationally.

The concrete part already has a date: December. That is when the results and Mexico's position in FATF follow-up will be known, a data point the binational financial sector will review closely.

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