South Sudan has an AML/CTF law and a Financial Intelligence Unit on paper, but supervision is not yet operating. See the obligations and how MemberCheck supports them.
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South Sudan has an AML/CTF law but not yet a functioning AML/CTF supervisor. The Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing Act 2012 created a Financial Intelligence Unit and set obligations for regulated entities, and the Bank of South Sudan licenses and supervises banks and foreign exchange bureaux. As of the FATF's 2026 review, however, South Sudan is still required to build competent authorities capable of risk-based AML/CTF supervision and to finalise the operationalisation of a fully functioning and independent FIU.
Regulated entities must apply customer due diligence, identify beneficial owners, monitor relationships, and report suspicious activity to the FIU. South Sudan is a member of ESAAMLG but remains on the FATF grey list of jurisdictions under increased monitoring, and firms should also account for targeted UN, US, and EU sanctions programmes relating to South Sudan alongside standard due diligence.
MemberCheck helps teams meet these obligations by screening customers and entities against global sanctions, PEP, and adverse-media data, verifying identities, and monitoring risk continuously, with a clear audit trail behind every decision.
The Bank of South Sudan licenses and supervises banks and foreign exchange bureaux. The AML/CFT Act 2012 also created a Financial Intelligence Unit, but as of the FATF's 2026 review that unit is still not fully operational and supervisory bodies are still being built, so the regime exists mainly on paper.
South Sudan's principal AML statute, setting customer due diligence, recordkeeping, and reporting obligations for financial institutions and other obligated entities.
Firms dealing with South Sudanese counterparties should account for targeted UN, US, and EU sanctions programmes relating to South Sudan alongside standard AML due diligence.
South Sudan is a member of ESAAMLG, the FATF-style regional body for Eastern and Southern Africa, but remains on the FATF's list of jurisdictions under increased monitoring (the "grey list"), reflecting known deficiencies in its AML/CTF regime that it has committed to address.
South Sudan does not yet have a working AML/CTF supervisor. The Bank of South Sudan licenses and supervises banks and foreign exchange bureaux, and the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing Act 2012 created a Financial Intelligence Unit, but South Sudan's FATF action plan still requires it to build competent authorities capable of risk-based AML/CTF supervision of financial institutions and to finalise the operationalisation of a fully functioning and independent FIU. Treat South Sudanese counterparties on the basis that domestic supervision cannot be relied on.
The Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing Act 2012 sets the customer due diligence, recordkeeping, and reporting obligations for regulated entities in South Sudan.
South Sudan is a member of ESAAMLG, the FATF-style regional body for Eastern and Southern Africa, but it remains on the FATF grey list of jurisdictions under increased monitoring. Firms should also account for targeted sanctions programmes relating to South Sudan.
MemberCheck screens customers and entities against global sanctions, PEP, and adverse-media data, verifies identities, and monitors risk continuously, with an audit trail behind every decision.
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