Basel AML Index 2017 Report

This report is issued on the occasion ofthe launch of the sixthedition of the Basel Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Index, whichhas been published by the Basel Institute on Governance (Basel Institute) since2012. To date, the Basel AML Indexremains the only index issued by an independent, not-for-profit organisation ranking countries according to theirrisk of money laundering and terrorist financing. The Basel AML Index is used by the private sector as an established AML country risk rating tool for compliance purposes, and in the publicsector, by NGOs and academiafor research and policy measures.The Basel AML Index 2017edition covers 146countries and provides risk ratingsbased on the quality of a country’s framework forAML and countering terrorism financing (AML/CFT)and related factors such as perceived levels of corruption, financial sector standards and public transparency.