06 July 2026 Romania has taken steps to enhance its anti-money laundering and terrorist financing (AML/CFT) measures but still needs to tackle some shortcomings, according to the Council of Europe’s Committee of Experts on the Evaluation of Anti-Money Laundering Measures and the Financing of Terrorism (MONEYVAL). The Committee’s conclusions were published in a report released on Monday, July 6. In short, MONEYVAL found that since the previous monitoring report adopted in June 2025, Romania has improved its technical compliance with two Financial Action Task Force (FATF) recommendations. As such, the county is largely compliant with targeted financial sanctions related to terrorism and terrorist financing and to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. Romania has also demonstrated