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''The euro.''
''UK - Financial Conduct Authority.''


The Eurozone is the collective name for the 19 countries adopting European Monetary Union (EMU) in full.
(OPBAS).
Sometimes written 'Euro zone', 'eurozone' or 'Euro-zone'.


More formally known as the 'euro area' and more informally as 'euroland'.  
The Office for Professional Body Anti-Money Laundering Supervision is the regulator set up by the UK government in 2018 to strengthen the UK’s anti-money laundering (AML) supervisory regime and ensure the professional body AML supervisors provide consistently high standards of AML supervision.


 
OPBAS aims to improve consistency of professional body AML supervision in the accountancy and legal sectors, but does not directly supervise legal and accountancy firms
The 19 countries in the euro area are:
 
Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain.
 
 
The nine European Union (EU) countries which are not in the euro area are:
 
Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Sweden and the United Kingdom (UK).
 
 
====Brexit====
A referendum in the UK in June 2016 resulted in a vote for the UK to begin the process of leaving the EU.




== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Bank supervision]]
* [[Anti money laundering]]
* [[Brexit]]
* [[4MLD]]
* [[Central bank]]
* [[Financial Action Task Force]]
* [[Core countries]]
* [[Financial Conduct Authority]]
* [[ESCB]]
* [[Integration]]
* [[Euro Stoxx 50]]
* [[Joint Money Laundering Intelligence Taskforce]]
* [[Eurobond]]
* [[Joint Money Laundering Steering Group]]
* [[European Central Bank]]
* [[National Economic Crime Centre]]
* [[European Financial Stability Facility]]
* [[Know-your-customer]]
* [[European Monetary Union]]
* [[Layering]]
* [[European Union]]
* [[Money laundering]]
* [[Eurosystem]]
* [[Placement]]
* [[Grexit]]
* [[USA PATRIOT Act]]
* [[Periphery countries]]




=== Other resources ===


==== Currencies of EU countries not in the euro area ====
[[Media:2015_03_Mar_-_Squeaky_clean.pdf| Squeaky Clean, The Treasurer, 2015]]
* [[BGN]]
* [[HRK]]
* [[CZK]]
* [[DKK]]
* [[HUF]]
* [[PLN]]
* [[RON]]
* [[SEK]]
* [[GBP]]


[[Category:Accounting,_tax_and_regulation]]
[[Category:The_business_context]]
[[Category:The_business_context]]
[[Category:Financial_products_and_markets]]

Revision as of 11:02, 20 August 2019

UK - Financial Conduct Authority.

(OPBAS).

The Office for Professional Body Anti-Money Laundering Supervision is the regulator set up by the UK government in 2018 to strengthen the UK’s anti-money laundering (AML) supervisory regime and ensure the professional body AML supervisors provide consistently high standards of AML supervision.

OPBAS aims to improve consistency of professional body AML supervision in the accountancy and legal sectors, but does not directly supervise legal and accountancy firms


See also


Other resources

Squeaky Clean, The Treasurer, 2015

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