A training on statistics for AML/CFT took place in Mauritius on 19 June 2025 in the context of the EU Global Facility for AML/CFT.
- Mr Dhanraj Conhye, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Financial Services and Economic Planning
- Mr David Hotte, Team Leader, EU AML/CFT Global Facility and his team
- Colleagues from the financial services sector
- Ladies and Gentlemen
- I am glad to be among you this afternoon for this virtual training. I am very happy to see you all present in the room for this training. It shows the great interest for the topic.
- The support provided to the Mauritian stakeholders in this session, is part of a solid relation between the European Union and Mauritius in the field of financial services. The EU has for years been keen to support the country in ensuring a strong, transparent financial ecosystem, which makes an important contribution to the development of the national economy, but also to the regional financial system.
- Mauritius has requested technical assistance to the European Union, through EU Global Facility on AML/CFT, to help Mauritius prepare for the next FATF round of evaluation.
- One of the topics of interest is related to FATF statistics. Indeed, statistical information is an essential tool in AML/CFT systems. It allows gauging effectiveness of the system, facilitates the conduct of Risk Assessment exercises, and helps for the allocation of resources. It increases transparency and supports informed decision making. Therefore, with the upcoming mutual evaluation, statistics become crucial.
- We hope that today’s session will be enriching, as it will serve to all to understand better the requirements, to analyse your system and to propose possible improvements by next session in July.
- After these June and July sessions, the second part of the TA will focus on experience-sharing with jurisdictions operating advanced systems, similar to the Centralised Information Management System which Mauritius wants to implement. Besides online trainings by EU Global Facility experts, onsite sessions will also be organized.
- As many of you know, the EU does not only support Mauritius financial sector via the Global Facility. We are also embarking into a 3 year programme for 25 million rupees with the Government of Mauritius, to support its activities in the area of AML/CFT/CPF.
- The results of the NRA will be fed into the activities of this programme, so as to provide the most efficient and priority support to the Government, in view of the Mutual Evaluation set for 2027.
- We are also actively supporting the development of sustainable financial frameworks via SUNREF in Mauritius.
- This I can assure you that you can count on the EU support for Mauritius to maintain its reputation as a reliable international financial jurisdiction.
- Best wishes for successful training.
