On 16th October, the Cayman Compass reported that the Government had gazetted a Legal Practitioners (Amendment) Bill to make membership in the Legal Practitioners Association mandatory for AML purposes and about 80% of lawyers are currently members of the association. An assessment of Cayman’s AML regime had included criticism that lawyers remained unsupervised and only had “a rudimentary understanding” of their money laundering and terrorism financing risks.
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