Editorial & Source Policy

Source hierarchy

1. Primary authority: legislation, regulator rules, official registries, FIU publications, sanctions authorities and intergovernmental standards.
2. Official guidance: regulator guidance, FAQs, thematic reviews, official typologies and supervisory materials.
3. Reliable secondary material: professional and academic analysis used to explain or contextualise, not to override primary authority.
4. Open web and aggregators: discovery and corroboration aids whose limitations must be recorded.

Editorial boundary

Universal AML concepts are separated from jurisdiction-specific legal obligations. Where a threshold, deadline, competent authority or mandatory procedure depends on local law, the page must state that boundary and point the reader to current official sources.

Typology safety standard

Typologies are presented defensively: risk pattern, evidence question, red flag, control response and escalation logic. AML Bible does not provide laundering instructions, threshold-avoidance methods or operational bypass guidance.

Citation rule

A source name alone is not sufficient support. Record the exact document or dataset, the relevant provision or finding, retrieval date, material limitations and how it affected the conclusion.

Review discipline

Pages should identify when they were reviewed and should not present time-sensitive national requirements as universal facts. Current jurisdiction-specific rules belong in the Regulation Map and Regulatory Updates layers of AML Ballerina.