Policy and Procedures Working Group (PPWG)
The PPWG develops operational policy and provides advice on strategic issues impacting the Egmont Group, including the effective exchange of information and adherence to international standards.
The PPWG provides a forum where Egmont Group member FIUs can identify important operational policy and strategic issues and respond to them by coordinating a response across the organization and, in some instances, with partner organizations. The PPWG also supports the Egmont Group’s relationships, including partners such as the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).
The PPWG provides strategic advice to assist the Egmont Committee and the broader Egmont Group. The PPWG assists the other working groups with implementing operational findings or developing related policies or advice. As the custodian of the Egmont Group’s core documents, the PPWG ensures they remain consistent with the organization’s strategic plan and continue to be relevant to the global anti-money laundering and counter-financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) environment.
Key Elements of the PPWG'S Mandate
Projects
Chair and Vice-Chairs
Key Elements of the PPWG's Mandate
- Exploring potential solutions to multiple issues that impede the free exchange of information between FIUs;
- Promoting the understanding of Egmont Group standards and facilitating their common interpretation and uniform application;
- Assisting FIUs in developing strong relationships with reporting entities, including through feedback on STRs and other reports and, when possible, provision of information by FIUs to reporting entities to assist in detecting suspicious activity;
- Discussing and analyzing AML/CFT regulatory and supervisory issues/actions as they impact FIUs to identify relevant AML/CFT risks, trends, and methods that would mitigate risks identified by FIUs; and
- Addressing strategic issues and matters of principle within the Egmont Group, including cooperation between FIUs and the respective working groups.
PPWG Projects
Current PPWG Projects
- Revision of the Support and Compliance Process
- FIU Funding Models
- Creating a provision for the EG to protect its interest against geopolitical incidents
- MOU multilateral information exchange
- IndiE – Understand better the FIU Boards
- Dissemination strategy options for EG documents & the respective visualization
- Guidelines for MOUs between FIUs-LEAs
- Developed a Glossary of Key Egmont Group Terminology to enhance international cooperation.
- Created the framework for the development by the Egmont Committee of the 2018-2021 Egmont Group Strategic Plan;
- Developed a new succession planning model for the Chair of the Egmont Group that entails the creation of two new Egmont Group Vice-Chair positions while maintaining the Chair’s mandate at two years;
- Reviewed the terms of reference and the selection procedure for the Chair of the Egmont Group and developed terms of reference and selection procedures for the newly created Egmont Group Vice-Chair positions;
- Revisited the Egmont Group’s Support and Compliance Process and reviewed its Procedural Trigger 3 to consider Mutual Evaluation reports (MERs) effectiveness findings when determining whether member FIUs comply with the Egmont Group requirements listed in the Egmont Group Charter and Principles for Information Exchange;
- Developed an Egmont-FATF Engagement Framework that identifies the main areas of cooperation between the two organizations and proposes actions to enhance the synergies between them;
- Looked into the matters impacting on FIU autonomy and operational independence and contributed to the development of a paper that will assist governments (decision and policymakers), FIUs, and key stakeholders in identifying the features of an independent and autonomous FIU;
- Conducted an organization-wide needs assessment for translating Egmont Group documents and prepared, together with the Egmont Group Secretariat, a budget proposal approved by the HoFIU.
Chair and Vice-Chairs
Working Group Chair
Name
Carl Ramagge – FIU Gibraltar
Chair, Policy and Procedures Working Group, 2026
Carl Ramagge is the Acting Director of the Gibraltar Financial Intelligence Unit (GFIU). He joined the GFIU as Head of Operations in December 2021. Called to the Bar of England and Wales (and Gibraltar) in 2007, Carl brings over 15 years of experience in criminal justice, prosecution, and financial intelligence.
In 2013, Carl was appointed Crown Counsel for HM Government of Gibraltar and spent eight years at the Office of Criminal Prosecutions and Litigation (OCPL). During this time, he was involved in some of Gibraltar’s most significant and complex prosecutions, including cases of murder, rape, serious sexual assaults, offences against children, and financial crime matters such as fraud and false accounting, including cases resulting in the confiscation of criminal proceeds. He also completed specialist training in Rape and Serious Sexual Offences with the UK Crown Prosecution Service.
Since joining the GFIU, Carl has focused on strengthening operational effectiveness, financial intelligence capabilities, and cooperation with domestic and international partners. He has been involved in a number of high-profile projects within the Egmont Group, contributing to policy development, operational initiatives, and FIU best practice. In July 2025, he was elected Vice Chair of the Egmont Group’s Policy and Procedures Working Group (PPWG). He continues to actively support public-private partnership initiatives and FIU outreach activities.
Working Group
Vice-Chairs
- Elisabeth Brown – UKFIU
- Robin Rawal – FIU India
