New EU anti-money laundering legislation 2025

In 2024, a new package of measures to fight money laundering and the financing of terrorism was adopted at the European level. These measures recognise the need for cross-border (payment) transactions with a European and global approach. Regulatory differences between member states must also be resolved as much as possible, as the effectiveness of money laundering currently depends on what individual member states do. International recommendations must be better integrated with national legislation.The European legislative package consists of four parts: an anti-money laundering authority, AMLA, is created, AMLD5 is split into (ii) a regulation (AMLR) and a directive (AMLD6). Those three partis are included in this book, including the recitals. The fourth part is the amended EU regulation on crypto-assets.The authors work in academia and in practice in the field of anti-money laundering legislation."