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That has nothing to do with whether countries are pressured or not. The fact is, the standards from those groups are huge pressure on countries to conform. The

That has nothing to do with whether countries are pressured or not. The fact is, the standards from those groups are huge pressure on countries to conform. They offer money, but with strings attached. Either the country conforms or it doesn’t get the money.

RandomLensman 4y ago
But do the citizens of those countries using those rules mostly object to those rules? Do Germans or Italians want different anti-money laundering standards, for example?
- forum_ghost 4y ago
  > Do Germans or Italians want different anti-money laundering standards, for example? Yes. Germany is the highest user of cash in G-7 and has radically different views on privacy from other G-7/G-20 country, doesn't even have a centralized citizen register. They have very little in common with Italy on many aspects, and certainly standards would vary as well. But what does it matter? You think supra-national organizations actually care what some little people think?
  - RandomLensman 4y ago
    Show me the survey on AML, please. Edit: German citizens are all properly in registers, more local, but very registered nonetheless. You need to have government ID by law. Plus there is a national tax ID.
    - forum_ghost 4y ago
      Do tell: how do you think these standards are established? By performing surveys or some other democratic/rule of law/other ritual? FATF is an unelected, undemocratic body, where you have absolute monarchies like Saudi Arabia and authoritarian states like Russia audit the free/democratic/morebuzzwords West. I can only imagine you think voting matters too. It doesn’t, never did.