The Financial Action Task Force, the governmental club that sets the anti-money laundering and terrorist-financing standards for its members to follow all over the world, has come out with a new statement of recommended practice. It is largely a non-binding “to-do” list for governments that drag their heels when being asked to enforce United Nations anti-terrorist resolutions and contains no “best practice” tips for financial firms.

The text, intriguingly, does not mention one country by name or comment on its performance against terrorist finance; nor does it mention one case. It does, however, contain a list of “product, service, transaction or delivery channel risk factors” to do with terrorist financing and sanctions, with private banking at the very top, followed by anonymous and non-face-to-face transactions.