How the RegActions Country Risk Score is calculated

The RegActions Country Risk Score is a transparent composite on a 0-10 scale, where a higher score means higher risk. It is built only from factual, sourced signals: a country's FATF listing status, its sanctions exposure, and World Bank governance indicators. Informational, and not a substitute for a firm's own risk assessment.

The three scored pillars

  • FATF status (40%): black list = 10, grey list = 6, not listed = 0.
  • Sanctions exposure (35%): comprehensive = 10, sectoral = 6, targeted = 3, none = 0 (highest tier across OFAC / UK / EU / UN).
  • Governance, World Bank WGI (25%): inverted mean percentile, risk = (100 - percentile) / 10.

The composite is the weighted mean of the pillars; when governance data is missing, its weight is dropped and the remaining pillars are renormalised.

Risk bands

  • Low 1.0-2.9
  • Moderate 3.0-4.9
  • High 5.0-6.9
  • Very high 7.0-10.0

Not scored

Enforcement volume (it measures regulator activity, not country risk) and Transparency International CPI (no-derivatives licence) are shown as evidence/reference but never fed into the score.

Data sources

  • FATF plenary public statements (black & grey lists). Source
  • OFAC / UK FCDO / EU / UN sanctions programmes (curated, sourced per row).
  • World Bank WGI, mean percentile across six dimensions (2023, CC BY 4.0 — World Bank WGI). Source