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Executive Service of the Commission for the Prevention of Money Laundering
SEPBLAC · AML authority
Employees
143
· employeesFY2025
Annual budget
~€22m
· operating costs — pin exact from SEPBLAC memoriaFY2025
Supervised entities
~9,277
· obliged entities under AML/CFT supervisionFY2025
Overview
SEPBLAC — the Servicio Ejecutivo de la Comisión de Prevención del Blanqueo de Capitales e Infracciones Monetarias — is Spain's AML/CFT supervisory authority and financial intelligence unit. It does not license financial institutions: in Spain, the Banco de España licenses and prudentially supervises banks and payment and e-money institutions, and the CNMV licenses investment firms and crypto-asset service providers, while SEPBLAC supervises all obliged entities' compliance with anti-money-laundering and counter-terrorist-financing obligations and executes financial sanctions. It pioneered thematic AML inspections over a decade before the EU made them mandatory, a practice FATF singled out in its 2014 evaluation of Spain. Everything below is SEPBLAC's own data, from its official publications.
Regulated sectors
Leadership
- Pedro Manuel Comín RodríguezDirector · since 2020
Figures as published by Executive Service of the Commission for the Prevention of Money Laundering for FY2025. Source: SEPBLAC (Spanish / English) (SEPBLAC discloses little organisational data — expected norm). Data as of 31 December 2025.
Organisation (FY2025)
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Employees | 143 |
| Operating costs | ~€22m Pin exact figure from the SEPBLAC memoria before publishing as authoritative |
| Obliged entities supervised | ~9,277 Across financial and non-financial sectors |
Mandate
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| AML/CFT supervision + FIU + financial sanctions execution | Under Law 10/2010 Supervises obliged entities across the financial and non-financial sectors |
| Licensing role | None Banco de España and CNMV license; SEPBLAC supervises AML/CFT — the national split this card exists to explain |
| Governance | Executive service of the Commission for the Prevention of Money Laundering Commission chaired ex officio by the Director General of the Treasury and Financial Policy; SEPBLAC run by a Director |
| Organisational figures | Not disclosed SEPBLAC discloses little organisational data — expected norm |
Reform in progress
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Draft Royal Decree (April 2026) | Cap the Director's mandate at six years, non-renewable, and strengthen transparency Converging early with the EU AML package applicable from 2027 |
Notable
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Split from licensing | Spain splits AML supervision from licensing: SEPBLAC supervises what Banco de España and the CNMV license. |
| Thematic AML inspections pioneer | Invented thematic AML inspections ~13 years before the EU AML package made them mandatory EU-wide. |
| Early alignment with AMLA | An April 2026 draft Royal Decree would cap the Director's mandate at six years and align Spain early with the 2027 EU AML framework and AMLA. |
Key legislation
Law 10/2010 on the Prevention of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing
AML/CFT — foundational
Royal Decree 304/2014
AML/CFT implementing regulation
Draft Royal Decree (April 2026)
Would cap the Director's mandate at six years, non-renewable
Application portals
Recent publications
- SEPBLAC — activity summaries
2026-08-01