With droughts restricting shipping via the Panama Canal since mid-2023, the attacks on vessels in the Red Sea have … Africa and the re-opening of the Panama Canal after the rainy season. …

Since the 2012 FSAP, Panama has significantly strengthened its institutional framework and instruments for …, the Superintendency of Banks of Panama (SBP) and the Financial Coordination Council (CCF) have made significant progress …

Key institutional pillars of a financial safety net have not been established in Panama. While state-owned banks … benefit from an explicit government guarantee, Panama does not possess a deposit insurance framework, lender-of-last resort … (LOLR) or emergency liquidity assistance (ELA)mechanism to preserve financial stability. Panama, as a fully dollarized …

Panama has struggled to bring its anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) regime in … Financial Action Task Force (FATF). Panama’s AML/CFT regime was last assessed against the FATF standards in 2017. Panama … legal persons and arrangements for money laundering purposes. As a result, Panama was grey listed by the FATF in June 2019 …