Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) is developing its anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism system. It has issued an anti-money laundering decree  and establised a Financial Intelligence Unit for reporting suspicious transactions. Lao PDR is working towards fully criminalising ML and TF.

Lao PDR became a member of the APG in July 2007.

Lao PDR  underwent an APG Mutual Evaluation in late 2010, with the report adopted in July 2011. The full report is available via the documents section of this website.