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No. 43 · Wednesday, 12 August 2026

Analysis: Bosnia and Herzegovina's return to the FATF grey list exposes years of reactive anti-money-laundering enforcement

Illicit Trade / Econ SecurityBosnia and Herzegovina
So what?  A grey-listing signals to correspondent banks worldwide that Bosnian financial flows carry elevated risk, raising compliance costs and slowing legitimate trade financing — friction that tends to fall hardest on small firms without in-house compliance capacity. The structural gap GI-TOC identifies, investigations that wait for an indictment instead of following the money first, is exactly the enforcement posture that lets trade-based laundering networks operate for years before any single case surfaces.
Analysis · Source: GI-TOC (Aug 11, 2026)

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