{"id":179942,"date":"2025-09-30T12:04:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T12:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/179942\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T12:04:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T12:04:12","slug":"south-africa-nigeria-poised-to-exit-dirty-money-list-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/179942\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa, Nigeria Poised to Exit Dirty-Money List in October"},"content":{"rendered":"

South Africa and Nigeria are poised to exit a global financial watchdog\u2019s \u201cgray list<\/a>\u201d as soon as next month, marking a change in fortune for two of the continent\u2019s biggest economies.<\/p>\n

The two nations were put under heightened scrutiny by the Financial Action Task Force<\/a> in February 2023<\/a> for shortcomings in tackling illicit financial flows. Assessors from the Paris-based FATF conducted on-site visits in recent weeks and subsequent feedback on the action plans for those countries \u2014 as well as for Burkina Faso<\/a> and Mozambique<\/a> \u2014 noted significant progress, according to people familiar with the matter who asked not to be identified as the deliberations are private. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Africa and Nigeria are poised to exit a global financial watchdog\u2019s \u201cgray list\u201d as soon as next…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[6074,85563,64,63,67622,99,5693,164,2057,115824,3786,171,29882,24203,24605,1183],"class_list":["post-179942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-africa","tag-allspring-global-investments","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-burkina-faso","tag-business","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-europe","tag-financial-action-task-force","tag-government","tag-markets","tag-money-laundering","tag-mozambique","tag-nigeria","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}