The wide variety of schemes to use companies for money laundering, such as oil smuggling, illegal gas sales, misappropriation of the Central Bank refinancing, misappropriation of bank funds and state-owned enterprises, form the research issues. The sample under study includes 102 countries around the world, which are closely monitored by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and have different levels of sociopolitical and economic development. The scientific and methodological approach to assess the financial monitoring risk in terms of the use of financial institutions for money laundering is based on the methods of multidimensional static analysis, descriptive, cluster and dispersive data analysis, gravity theory, nonlinear econometric modeling, differential and bifurcation analysis of dynamic nonlinear systems. The result of the study is a developed model of comprehensive risk assessment for the countries' financial institutions for money laundering, which considers grouping of countries by the