In a comment letter to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) regarding their Draft Guidance on Digital Identity, WOCCU urged (FATF) to implement further guidance to national-level regulators to focus on an effective system that avoids imposing overly burdensome requirements and provide some flexibility for the unique structure of credit unions and cooperative financial institutions. WOCCU responded to four questions posed by FATF regarding the role of digital identity in relation to money laundering and terrorist financing, financial inclusion, due diligence and transaction monitoring, and record keeping requirements. WOCCU concurs with FATFs risk-based approach to digital identify for customer due diligence as well as their endeavors to support financial inclusion, however, WOCCU emphasized the need to implement " guidance directing supervisors to consider some high level principles such as whether an institution has cross-border operations, the asset size, the institutions interconnectedness with the financial system, the degree to which they report to multiple prudential supervisors, the mix of business activities, the average level of transactions that occur in any account and that further corresponds to the size, and the complexity and risk of a financial institution."

WOCCU's comment letter to FATF regarding their draft guidance on digital identity can be found here.