MENAFATF Advisory Committee held its first meeting in 2026, held over two days on 12 and 13 January in Abu Dhabi, chaired by H.E. Hamid Al Zaabi, President of MENAFATF. The agenda for the first day included visits to the Emirates Institute for Financial Studies and the Abu Dhabi Global Market Academy, highlighting the importance of capacity building, reviewing governance and regulatory enhancement mechanisms, and exchanging expertise.

The Middle East and North Africa Financial Action Task Force (MENAFATF) is pleased to welcome H.E. Mr. Hamid Saif Al Zaabi as President of MENAFATF for 2026, and H.E. Sheikha May bint Mohammed Al Khalifa as Vice President, wishing them every success in continuing to strengthen the MENAFATF’s role at the regional level.

As part of the 3rd round of the mutual evaluation process and in preparation for the upcoming mutual evaluation of the Kingdom of Morocco’s national system for Anti-Money Laundering, Counter-Terrorist Financing, and Counter-Proliferation Financing (AML/CFT/CPF), a delegation from the Middle East and North Africa Financial Action Task Force (MENAFATF) conducted an official visit to Rabat, the capital of the Kingdom of Morocco, on 27 November 2025. The delegation included H.E. Ms. Samya Abou Sharif, President of the MENAFATF; H.E. Mr. Hamid Al Zaabi, Vice President of the MENAFATF; H.E. Mr.

The MENAFATF 41st Plenary Meeting and its associated Working Groups Meetings concluded Thursday, 13 November 2025, in Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain. The two-day Meeting was chaired by Ms. Samia Abu Sharif, MENAFATF President, Member of the National Committee for Anti-Money Laundering and Combating Terrorist Financing, and Head of the Anti-Money Laundering and Combating  Terrorist Financing Unit in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (“FIU”), and Mr.