Country AML risk ratings and reporting for compliance teams
Three tiers of access to KnowYourCountry's jurisdictional AML risk assessments and ratings: from ready-to-use reports to fully customisable, API-connected datasets. Choose the level of control your compliance programme needs.
PROFESSIONAL
For compliance teams that need audit-ready country AML risk assessments aligned to the frameworks that their regulators are working from.
- Unlimited access to 245 EDD country AML risk reports, structured around the risk categories used by FATF, EU AMLA, FinCEN and other global regulators
- All information is updated on an event basis with notifications, so your ratings reflect the current regulatory environment and a country’s risk profile
- Risk override function and timestamps within country reports
- Industry risk reporting, covering AML, CFT, corruption and sanctions across 45+ sectors

PROFESSIONAL PLUS
WITH DATASET
For organisations that need a documented, auditable methodology behind their ratings.
- All Professional plan features included
- Downloadable dataset behind the country ratings, customisable to your organisation's risk appetite, geography and business model
- Industry risk matrix, scoring and reporting covering AML, CFT, corruption and sanctions
- FATF Mutual Evaluation Recommendations Assessment spreadsheet - particularly valuable when assessing country AML equivalence or demonstrating supervisory quality to your own regulators
- Virtual asset/VASP risk matrix, scoring and reporting to assess the quality of oversight

ENTERPRISE
This plan puts every team, office and subsidiary on the same jurisdictional AML risk data, held to the same standard, across every jurisdiction you operate in.
- All Professional Plus features included
- Full API access: integrate KnowYourCountry data into your onboarding platforms and KYC systems for an automated approach
- Inclusion of multiple Scoring Profiles, allowing for the adjustment of rating parameters to align with local geographic nuance while applying the same rigorous, evidence-based methodology
- Up to 100 users across multiple jurisdictions
SINGLE ENHANCED REPORTS
Our Enhanced Country Reports are available in our Membership area or may be downloaded on an ad hoc basis from our KnowYourCountry website. These reports contain government and regulatory sourced information that provides a much more extensive and detailed understanding of all the risk elements identified by FATF and other Regulators that require assessment when evaluating jurisdictional AML risk.
Each Enhanced Report also contains its own risk dashboard that sets out the risk scores for those elements based upon our methodologies and the data set that lies behind our country ratings score, including the following (please note that some information will be unavailable for certain jurisdictions):
- FATF Status
- Compliance with FATF Recommendations, including full assessment scoring and key findings from all Mutual Evaluation Reports and follow-up reports
- US State Department Money Laundering report
- EU Tax blacklist/CRS/Economic citizenship status
- Sanction Information
- Bribery & Corruption information
- US State Department Reports on the Proliferation on Weapons of Mass Destruction, Human Trafficking, Narcotics and Terrorism
- Investment Climate information including the Money and Banking system, Financial Markets, Legal Regime, Foreign investment restrictions, and State Controlled Enterprises

FREE ABBREVIATED REPORTS
KnowYourCountry.com
- General information relating to Country AML risk, sanctions etc.
- Country Risk rating table (overall scores sourced from our dataset)
- Country Summaries – Please note that although our Summaries will give a general outline of AML risk associated with the jurisdiction, they do not provide the in-depth analysis of the specific risk elements and indices relevant to Country AML risk that regulated financial service businesses may require.
Please note that although our Summaries will give a general outline of AML risk associated with the jurisdiction, they do not provide the in-depth analysis of the specific risk elements and indices relevant to Country AML risk that regulated financial service businesses may require.
If you are relying upon our reports to meet regulatory requirements, you should consider using the full reports available in our membership area or downloadable content.
Plan Features
|
Core Features |
KnowYourCountry Website |
Professional |
Professional Plus |
Enterprise |
|---|
|
COUNTRY AML REPORTS (245 Jurisdictions) |
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abbreviated Reports |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
| Full Reports |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
|
| Executive Summaries |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
|
| Risk Ratings Override Function |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
|
| Industry/Product Sector |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
| WORKSPACE | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Information Centre |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
| Newsroom |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
| E-Learning Training Module (CPD Certified) |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
| Secure Login |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
|
| Multi-Factor Authentication |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
|
| Document Library |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
|
| 24/7 Support |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
| DATASETS | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Customisable Risk Rating Table |
✔ |
✔ |
||
| Sanctions |
✔ |
✔ |
||
| Terrorism Financing |
✔ |
✔ |
||
| Criminal Actors/Markets |
✔ |
✔ |
||
| Resilience |
✔ |
✔ |
||
| Industry & Product Sector Ratings |
✔ |
✔ |
||
|
FATF Mutual Evaluation Recs Assessments
|
✔ |
✔ |
|
API*
|
|
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall Country Ratings |
|
✔ |
||
| Country Rating Categories |
✔ |
|||
| Industry Risk Ratings |
✔ |
|||
| Country Report [Short] |
✔ |
|||
| Country Report [Long] |
✔ |
|||
| API Counter |
✔ |
* There is an additional cost for the use of our API
** Generic email addresses may not be used
Our flexible pricing allows business of all sizes to access our services in an affordable, scalable model, speak to one of our team to find the plan that works for your business.
Arrange a meeting or a demo with one of our sales team.
API Access
API Access is provided for either Enterprise clients (onboarding platforms, etc.) or for those clients who want to incorporate our information and data into their global kyc systems.
Commercial use of our data
Geographical AML risk is an integral part of any risk assessment when onboarding or reviewing customers. Due diligence providers, screening tools and onboarding platforms recognize the benefit of being able to provide geographical risk assessments as a part of their reporting on customer risk assessments. Therefore, through our API, we have arrangements with a number of service providers who have integrated our data/information into their product.
Who uses Know Your Country?
The simple answer is any type of business that falls within the regulated sector is required to conform with local AML requirements. Because of the move to customer assessment on a risk-based approach, geographical, and industry or product sector, risk assessment is an integral part of any customer assessment. Types of businesses that normally are subject to AML regulation are:
- Financial sector firms, including banks, building societies and other credit institutions
- Individuals and firms engaged in regulated investment activities under the Financial Services and Markets Act
- Issuers of electronic money
- Companies dealing in long-term life insurance
- Currency exchanges, check encashment centers, and money transmission services (money service businesses)
- Auditors, insolvency practitioners, external accountants and tax advisers
- Trust and company service providers
- Casinos; Art market participants
- Crypto asset exchange provider
- Custodian wallet providers
- Estate agents/Realtors and certain letting agents
- Independent legal professionals, when undertaking relevant business

