Sources & Verification Center

Every claim traceable to a primary source.

Global Asset Guide publishes nothing it cannot cite. This page documents the official sources we monitor and the verification workflow every intelligence item passes before publication.

01 — Primary sources

The institutions we monitor.

FATF
Financial Action Task Force

Global AML/CFT standards, mutual evaluations, grey & black lists

SEC
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Securities enforcement, registration actions, market guidance

FinCEN
U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network

MSB rules, BSA guidance, enforcement and advisories

OFAC
U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control

Sanctions designations, SDN list, mixer & wallet actions

FCA
UK Financial Conduct Authority

Cryptoasset registration, financial promotions, supervision

MAS
Monetary Authority of Singapore

PSA licensing, stablecoin framework, supervisory notices

ESMA
European Securities and Markets Authority

MiCA implementation, technical standards, EU convergence

FSCA
South Africa Financial Sector Conduct Authority

CASP licensing, declarations, enforcement actions

CMA
Kenya Capital Markets Authority

VASP bill progress, sandbox cohorts, investor alerts

Central Banks
National central banks & monetary authorities

CBDC programmes, payment directives, prudential warnings

Official Gazettes
National legal gazettes & parliaments

Primary legislation, proclamations, statutory instruments

Secondary media is never used as the basis for a score or an enforcement record — only as a discovery signal pointing back to primary documents.

02 — Verification workflow

Four gates between a source and your screen.

01

Source Collected

Automated monitors track 120+ official feeds, gazettes and regulator sites. Every item is captured with its original URL, publication date and issuing authority.

02

Analyst Reviewed

An analyst confirms authenticity, jurisdiction, and materiality, attaches the relevant pillar mapping, and assigns an initial confidence level.

03

AI Categorized

AI classifies the item into oversight domains, extracts entities and obligations, and links it to affected country profiles — always downstream of human review.

04

Published

The item enters the live intelligence feed with full source citation, confidence label, and timestamps. Link integrity is re-verified on a rolling basis.

03 — Confidence labels

How to read our confidence labels.

Every intelligence item carries one of three labels. Labels are reassessed whenever an underlying source changes or a verification run flags a discrepancy.

High Confidence

Corroborated by two or more primary sources and reviewed by an analyst within the last quarter.

Moderate Confidence

Single primary source or pending secondary corroboration; suitable for directional analysis.

Under Review

Source change detected or item flagged by verification systems; analyst re-review in progress.

Professional disclaimerGlobal Asset Guide intelligence is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute legal, tax, investment, or compliance advice. Regulatory positions change frequently; verify all material with primary sources and qualified counsel before relying on it for licensing, supervisory, or compliance decisions.