Proliferation financing

Standing Board of the Committee holds a session for the preliminary verification of the draft Law on Countering the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction

On the morning of 14 July, at the National Assembly Offices Building, the Standing Board of the Committee for National Defence, Security and Foreign Affairs held a session to conduct the preliminary verification of the…

Promulgation of the Regulation on coordination in combating and preventing the evasion of financial sanctions related to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction

On 11 May 2026, Deputy Prime Minister Phan Van Giang signed Decision No. 829/QD-TTg promulgating the Regulation on coordination in combating and preventing the evasion of targeted financial sanctions related to the…

FATF releases new paper on cyber-enabled fraud

Paris, February 24th, 2026 - The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has today published a paper examining the evolving threat of cyber-enabled fraud and how jurisdictions can harness the FATF Standards to combat it…

Press release on the re-establishment of the list of designations of the United Nations Security Council Committee established pursuant to Resolution 1737

On 28 September 2025, in accordance with the procedure set out in paragraphs 11 and 12 of United Nations Security Council Resolution 2231 (2015)[1] (Resolution 2231), all provisions of United Nations Security Council…

FATF adds Kuwait, Papua New Guinea to increased monitoring list

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has added Kuwait and Papua New Guinea to its list of jurisdictions under increased monitoring (grey list). In the public statement of the Reserve Bank of India, issued after its…

Training and Experience-Sharing Program in Indonesia on Anti-Money Laundering, Counter-Terrorist Financing, and Counter-Proliferation Financing

From January 19 to 23, 2026, the Vietnamese delegation, comprising officials from the State Bank of Vietnam, the Ministry of National Defense, the Ministry of Public Security, and the Supreme People’s Procuracy…

Open registries - a vulnerability exploited to evade targeted financial sanctions

Vessels engaged in evading maritime sanctions (including targeted financial sanctions) are predominantly registered with open registries: registries that impose few or no nationality requirements on vessel owners and…

Inspection of anti-money laundering, counter-terrorist financing and counter-proliferation financing activities

From 5 to 16 December 2025, an interagency inspection team led by the State Bank of Vietnam inspected the anti-money laundering, counter-terrorist financing and counter-proliferation financing activities of Kien Long…

Virtual currencies and the risk of proliferation financing

As virtual currencies (virtual assets – VAs) become increasingly widespread, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) published two important reports in June 2025 highlighting the major risk of VAs being exploited for…

Violations of regulations on countering the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction under Government Decree No. 218/2025/ND-CP on administrative sanctions in the fields of national defence and cryptography

The Government has promulgated Decree No. 218/2025/ND-CP of 5 August 2025 on administrative sanctions in the fields of national defence and cryptography, which took effect on the date of signature. The Decree introduces…

Meeting with the FATF Joint Group on the fifth progress report

On 3–4 September 2025 in Macao, China, the FATF Joint Group (JG) and the Vietnamese delegation held a face-to-face meeting on the fifth progress report (PR5) addressing issues of anti-money laundering, countering the…

Vietnamese delegation attends the APG 2025 Annual Meeting in Tokyo, Japan

In fulfilment of Vietnam’s responsibilities as a member of the Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering (APG), from 25 to 29 August 2025 a Vietnamese inter-agency delegation comprising representatives of the State Bank of…