The Week Ahead, 26 October: FATF plenary, Saudi rule changes, an OFAC deadline

Eight dated items for the week of 26 October, and five deadlines just beyond it, each with the document behind it.

• Monday 26 to Friday 30 October. The FATF holds its plenary in Paris, according to its calendar. It is the first since June, when the FATF added Bosnia and Herzegovina and Iraq to its list of jurisdictions under increased monitoring and removed Algeria and Namibia, its June outcomes show.
• Tuesday 27 October. Consultation closes on Saudi Arabia's draft rules for brokers dealing for clients on markets outside the kingdom, the Capital Market Authority said.
• Thursday 29 October. The authority's consultation on mandatory earnings calls for Main Market companies closes, according to its release.
• Friday 30 October. OFAC's General License FF expires at 12:01 a.m. eastern daylight time, ending the wind-down window for Iraq's International Development Bank for Investment and Finance, which the Treasury designated on 15 October.
• Friday 30 October. Applications close for Türkiye's first Corporate Sustainability Reporting Expertise licence exam, to be held on 12 December, under the oversight authority KGK's announcement 2026-39.
• Friday 30 October. The UN biodiversity conference, COP17, ends in Yerevan, Armenia, the Council of the EU's press release on the EU's negotiating position shows.
• Friday 30 October. The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women ends its 93rd session, which included reviews of Kazakhstan and Moldova, according to the UN Geneva calendar.
• Sunday 1 and Monday 2 November. Saudi Arabia's revised provisions on algorithmic trading and on IPO practices are due to take effect, once their final versions are approved, the authority's releases on algorithmic trading and IPOs say.

Just beyond the week:

• Wednesday 4 November. Comments are due on FinCEN's proposed ban on funds transfers involving the A7 network's sub-agents, the Federal Register notice shows.
• Thursday 5 November. Applications close for a vacant seat on Georgia's Supreme Court, under the High Council of Justice's decision.
• Friday 6 November. Brazil's competition authority, CADE, stops taking contributions on its merger notification rules, it said.
• Monday 9 November. Registration closes for the sixth session of the UN tax convention negotiations, the UN secretariat's page shows.
• Monday 9 November. COP31 opens in Antalya, after a pre-sessional period from 2 November, according to the UNFCCC schedule.