China’s 2025 Anti-Money Laundering Overhaul: Risk-Based Regulation & Global Impact Explained

Описание: China’s 2025 Anti-Money Laundering (AML) reforms mark one of the most significant shifts in financial regulation in recent years — moving from rigid, blanket cash-reporting rules to a risk-based approach targeting high-risk sectors, suspicious transactions, and cross-border illicit flows.

Effective January 1, 2025, the amended AML law drops the mandatory reporting of all cash transactions over 50,000 yuan, a rule that was proposed in 2022 but never truly enforced. Instead, China is focusing its resources on identifying and stopping money laundering networks, terrorist financing, and financial crimes tied to national security.

Key changes include:

Risk-based supervision replacing denomination-based reporting.

Expanded AML oversight to non-financial sectors like real estate, law firms, jewelers, and accountants.

Establishment of China’s first Ultimate Beneficial Ownership (UBO) registry to expose shell companies.

Stricter due diligence for high-risk customers and sectors.

Stronger integration between financial compliance and national security goals.

While this overhaul aims to streamline compliance and improve efficiency for financial institutions, challenges remain — including ensuring effective enforcement, maintaining data privacy, and preventing misuse of AML powers to limit financial freedoms.

This reform also has global implications. As China strengthens AML cooperation and extends its regulatory reach internationally, other countries will be watching closely to see if this new framework effectively reduces illicit financial activity without stifling innovation.

In this video, we break down:

What the 2025 AML reforms mean for banks, businesses, and individuals.

How risk-based regulation differs from the old system.

The potential human rights and privacy concerns.

Why this shift matters for global financial security.


Question for viewers:
Do you think China’s new AML system will improve financial integrity, or could it threaten transparency and freedoms? Share your thoughts in the comments!

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