📅 02 November 2026 • EU Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA)
AMLA to hold public hearing on draft rules for the EU central AML/CFT database
Tomorrow, on Tuesday 3 November 2026, the EU Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA) holds an online public hearing on its draft regulatory technical standards for the central EU database on anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism. The hearing runs from 14:00 to 16:00 CET and is held in English. Registration closes when the hearing starts, places are limited, and each participant receives an individual access code.
The hearing is the final scheduled stop of the consultation on the same draft standards. The consultation opened on 7 October 2026 and closes on 3 November 2026 at 16:00 CET — two hours after the hearing ends. Feedback submitted by that deadline enters the consultation record before the final text is settled.
Single entry point for supervisory reporting
The legal basis is Article 11(6) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1620, the regulation that establishes AMLA. The draft RTS describe a central EU AML/CFT database designed as a single entry point for standardised supervisory reporting and a repository of supervisory information at both entity and system level. Supervisors would access the database on a confidential need-to-know basis.
What the draft standards contain
The draft standards draw on data that supervisors already hold, so the database adds no new reporting costs for obliged entities. They also set a materiality threshold above which breaches must be reported. Entry into force is foreseen in stages: no go-live date has been published, and the final text may still change after the consultation.
IMPACT
Who is affected: banks and other obliged entities under EU AML rules, national supervisors, and compliance teams that prepare or consume supervisory reporting. What changes in processes: a future single entry point for standardised supervisory reporting, built on data supervisors already collect, with a materiality threshold for breach reporting.
Timelines: the hearing takes place 3 November 2026, 14:00-16:00 CET, registration closes when it starts, and the consultation closes 3 November 2026 at 16:00 CET. Entry into force is staged and no go-live date is published, so no restructuring is required yet.
What to do now: monitor the hearing, submit consultation feedback before 16:00 CET on 3 November, map internal AML data flows against the future standardised reporting model, and keep a watching brief on AMLA publications. Risks of missing it: losing the chance to comment before the text closes, and meeting the standardised model later with no preparation done.
Confirmations could not be found at this time.
Sources
Sources: EU Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA) event page, AMLA public consultation page, AMLA press release, EUR-Lex.
Sources:
- https://www.amla.europa.eu/events/public-hearing-draft-rts-establishing-central-amlcft-database-2026-11-03_en
- https://www.amla.europa.eu/policy/public-consultations/consultation-public-hearing-draft-rts-establishing-central-amlcft-database_en
- https://www.amla.europa.eu/press-release-amla-consults-draft-standards-eu-wide-amlcft-database_en
- https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1620/oj
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