Switzerland Approves Scaled-Back AML Reforms

Moneylaundering.com, 11.09.2025 – Swiss lawmakers approved a pair of bills Thursday designed to expand anti-money laundering regulations in their country’s legal sector and establish a federal beneficial ownership register, but only after they substantially weakened the legislation in previous votes. “This watered-down reform has failed to address significant AML loopholes,” Romea Alonso, a research associate with Transparency International’s Swiss branch in Bern, told ACAMS moneylaundering.com.