Though some degree of success was achieved by financial institutions in rendering services to millions of excluded people throughout Asia-Pacific, the region is still home to an estimated 1.2 billion people who do not have access to a bank account or formal financial services.
Coordination among the authorities remains a powerful tool to increase the effectiveness of AML/CFT endeavours, and in the area of education, it creates a ripple effect as knowledge and experience are shared among supervisors. Since February 2021, the ICC has conducted 10 AML/CFT outreach and training programmes.