Compliance & Regulations/Cross-jurisdictional/FATF Travel Rule
Payments · Global — VASP and financial institutions

FATF Travel Rule (Recommendation 16)

FATF Recommendation 16 (Travel Rule) — originator and beneficiary information requirements for wire transfers and Virtual Asset Service Providers.

Regulator
Financial Action Task Force (FATF)
Jurisdiction
Global — VASP and financial institutions
Status
Active.
In force since
Active
Regulator's source
Who it applies to

Financial institutions and VASPs handling transfers above the Travel Rule threshold.

Audit / certification status

Continuous evidence pipeline available; audit support included for all customers.

What it requires

What FATF Travel Rule actually requires.

These are the obligations a regulated entity owes — the things an assessor or supervisor will ask about.

01

Originator and beneficiary information transmitted with transfers above threshold.

02

Sanctions screening and recordkeeping.

How Safeguard maps to it

Pre-mapped controls. Continuous evidence.

Each requirement above is bound to live telemetry — not screenshots. The mapping below is what your auditor or regulator sees.

Travel Rule message validation and sanctions screening pipeline.

Evidence we produce

Artifacts your auditor accepts.

Each evidence artifact is signed and timestamped. Auditors can verify integrity without trusting Safeguard.

Travel Rule transmission records.

Sanctions screening logs.

Related frameworks

One evidence base. Many regulators.

These frameworks share substantial control overlap with FATF Travel Rule. Customers running one assessment typically satisfy the others with the same evidence base.

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