AMLA Chair Bruna Szego participated in the annual Anti-Money Laundering Conference hosted by the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) in Frankfurt on 20 November 2025. Speaking after BaFin Executive Director Birgit Rodolphe, who delivered the opening address, Szego highlighted AMLA’s task of moving from a fragmented landscape of 27 legal frameworks and supervisory approaches to a uniform European AML/CFT system. She underlined the Authority’s mandate to deliver a single set of rules, consistent supervisory practices and harmonised STR reporting, supporting both national authorities and cross-border institutions. The conference brought together close to 1,000 representatives of obliged entities, reflecting the central role of the private sector in strengthening Europe’s AML/CFT regime.
In her remarks, Szego outlined AMLA’s priorities as it prepares for operationalisation: completing the Single Rulebook through a substantial package of Level 2 and Level 3 measures; promoting supervisory convergence by finalising a common risk assessment model and supervisory methodology; and strengthening FIU cooperation through a new Support and Coordination Framework, including peer reviews and pilot joint analyses. She also addressed AMLA’s work on technology and crypto-assets, noting that the Authority is developing high AML/CFT standards for the licensing and supervision of crypto-asset service providers in close coordination with European partners.
Szego emphasised that progress depends on close cooperation not only with national authorities and EU institutions, but also with the private sector, whose insights and engagement she described as essential to achieving a robust, data-driven and harmonised AML/CFT system across the Union.