The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is the leading organisation responsible for guaranteeing the integrity and security of the international financial system by setting international standards to counter money laundering, financing of terrorism and financing of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. This book fills a significant gap in academic literature by studying FATF’s legal nature and its responsibilities in the international legal system as an organisation with public authority. It makes a bold argument that the FATF has gradually evolved into an international organisation, addressing international law and international organisation law discourse, combining theory and practice. This book offers an analytical framework that can be applied to any organisation whose legal nature remains undefined, attempting to provide clarity and legal certainty in the international legal system’s architecture of the 21st century.
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