EU Seeks to Remove UAE From Its Money Laundering Risk List

A visitor walks along the corniche in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Photographer: Hollie Adams/Bloomberg

The European Union plans to remove the United Arab Emirates from its list of countries that pose a high-risk for money-laundering, something the Gulf country has been pushing to happen.

The European Commission, the bloc’s executive arm, took the UAE off its list of “high-risk jurisdictions presenting strategic deficiencies in their national anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) regimes,” according to a statementBloomberg Terminal.