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Basel AML Index 2025: What Money Laundering Risk Scores Can and Can’t Tell Us

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GAB is pleased to publish this guest post by Kateryna Boguslavska, Head of Financial Crime Risk and Monica Guy, Senior Specialist Communications, at the Basel Institute on Governance

It is with some trepidation that we inform GAB readers of the latest Basel AML Index Public Edition results.

That is because the Basel AML Index is widely known as a ranking of jurisdictions – 177 this year – in terms of their risks of money laundering and related financial crimes. We all know how contentious jurisdiction rankings can be, especially in hard-to-measure topics like financial crime.

So we would like to stress from the outset an important point about this year’s Index.

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Guest Announcement: New Basel AML Index Now Available

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Kateryna Boguslavska, project manager at the Basel Institute on Governance, provides the following announcement:

Earlier this month, the Basel Institute on Governance released its annual Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Index; the public edition of this index, which draws on 18 separate indicators, ranks 152 jurisdictions according to each jurisdiction’s risks of money laundering and terrorist financing, and its capacity to counter those risks. (While the public edition is freely available, those interested in a more in-depth exploration of the data, for a larger number of jurisdictions, can sign up for the Expert Edition — also free for users outside the private sector.) The launch of the Basel AML Index was accompanied by a launch webinar, as well as a report. That report focuses on three important topics: virtual assets, confiscation of illicit assets, and the misuse of non-profit organizations for terrorist financing. This resource may be useful for many researchers who study corruption and illicit financial flows.