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ARTICLE · 03 DECEMBER 2025

2025 CSSF Questionnaire On Financial Crime

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Today, the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier – Luxembourg financial services regulator ("CSSF"), being the supervisory authority in Luxembourg responsible for ensuring AML/CFT compliance by professionals under the CSSF's supervision.

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Today, the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier – Luxembourg financial services regulator ("CSSF"), being the supervisory authority in Luxembourg responsible for ensuring AML/CFT compliance by professionals under the CSSF's supervision, published that it shall be launching its annual AML/CFT Questionnaire on Financial Crime (the "Questionnaire") covering the 2025 year on 23 February 2026, whereby the final submission of responses has to be completed by latest 3 April 2026.

The objective of the Questionnaire is to enable the CSSF to collect uniform key information and data concerning money laundering and terrorism financing ("ML/TF") risks to which professionals under its supervision are exposed, and the implementation of the corresponding mitigation measures to lessen these risks. This Questionnaire forms part of the CSSF's ongoing assessment of ML/TF risks present in the financial sector under its supervision and is a vital contributing factor of the

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