Greylisting, what is it and what if it happens to SA? (#509)

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Greylisting

Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

• Cracking down on money laundering and funding terrorism.
• Greylisting can reduce a country's capital flows by as much as 7.6%, according to an IMF working paper.
• Cabinet has approved a raft of new amendment bills but leaving it late, very late.

Our deadline is September/October after being put on the watch list last year.

The important questions;

• Will we get greylisted?
• What happens if we do?
• If greylisted, how do we get off the list?

* I hold ungeared positions.