# FATF R.29 — Financial intelligence units - **Part of:** [[FATF Recommendations]] Countries must establish a financial intelligence unit (FIU) to act as the national centre for receiving and analysing suspicious transaction reports and other information relevant to money laundering, associated predicate offences, and terrorist financing, and for disseminating the results of that analysis to competent authorities. The FIU must be able to obtain additional information from reporting entities and have timely access to the financial, administrative and law enforcement information it needs to carry out these functions. ## Keyed AMLR articles - [[AMLR Art. 81 - FIU-EPPO cooperation|AMLR Art. 81]] — FIU-EPPO cooperation - [[AMLR Art. 82 - Requests to EPPO|AMLR Art. 82]] — Requests to EPPO - [[AMLR Art. 83 - FIU-OLAF cooperation|AMLR Art. 83]] — FIU-OLAF cooperation - [[AMLR Art. 84 - Requests to OLAF|AMLR Art. 84]] — Requests to OLAF ## Further AMLR connections - [[AMLR Art. 69 - Reporting of suspicions|AMLR Art. 69]] — R.29 requires the FIU to be able to obtain additional information from reporting entities; Art. 69(1)(b) sets the corresponding duty of obliged entities to supply it. *(related)* ## Swiss counterparts - [[GwG Art. 35a - Verification (MROS checks a person|GwG Art. 35a]] — R.29 requires the FIU to have timely access to financial, administrative and law-enforcement information; GwG Art. 35a lets MROS check reported persons by retrieval in the national police index, the migration system, VOSTRA, the state-security system and the mutual-assistance case system. *(direct)* ## Authoritative text > [!quote]- FATF Recommendation 29 — text of the Recommendation (FATF Recommendations, updated June 2026); interpretive note not reproduced > **29. Financial intelligence units** > Countries should establish a financial intelligence unit (FIU) that serves as a national centre for the receipt and analysis of: (a) suspicious transaction reports; and (b) other information relevant to money laundering, associated predicate offences and terrorist financing, and for the dissemination of the results of that analysis. The FIU should be able to obtain additional information from reporting entities, and should have access on a timely basis to the financial, administrative and law enforcement information that it requires to undertake its functions properly.