The FATF (Financial Action Task Force) consists of 39 member states. It establishes international criteria to combat and prevent money laundering, terrorist financing and proliferation financing and verifies their worldwide compliance. The advantage of compliance is that countries receive a kind of seal of approval that facilitates access to the international market. If no strategic deficit is identified in an FATF audit, other countries do not have to comply with special security measures in trade with these very countries. If countries are on the so-called "grey list", they show (according to the FATF) strategic deficits in the implementation of international requirements or, as in the case of Syria, have not been able to be audited by the international organisation for a long time. International trade can adjust to the particular risks associated with the FATF's assessment and exercise special caution. The naming of a country on the "black list", as is currently the case only with Iran and North Korea, is explicitly linked by the FATF with the recommendation not only to exercise special caution, but also to immediately impose sanctions to protect the international market. A complete overview of the lists can be found here.