Goldilocks and the three MERs

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As we all pick over the outcomes from thelatest plenary meeting of the Financial Action Task Force, writes Sue Grossey , we may have missed the trio of mutual evaluation reports (MERs) that was issued in the same week by the Asia-Pacific Group on Money Laundering. The APG has probably the widest geographical spread of membership, from (and I’m doing this with a UK-centric perspective) Mongolia in the north to New Zealand in the south, and from the US in the west to the Cook Islands in the east. This time, the APG has concentrated on the AML/CFT regimes of three member countries: one small, one medium and one large.