How does a regulatory body typically obtain international assistance in a money Laundering inquiry?

The Egmont Group guidelines govern information sharing between Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs), not between regulatory or supervisory bodies conducting formal money laundering inquiries.

Regulatory bodies use bilateral or multilateral supervisory channels - such as those established under frameworks like the IOSCO Multilateral Memorandum of Understanding - to formally request assistance from the corresponding supervisory body in a foreign jurisdiction, which is the standard mechanism for regulatory cooperation in cross-border inquiries.

FATF and the OECD are standard-setting and policy bodies that establish AML frameworks, but they do not serve as direct operational channels for case-specific international assistance requests.

Contacting a financial institution's Head of Compliance is an internal compliance engagement mechanism and does not constitute a formal international regulatory assistance process between sovereign supervisory bodies.