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The European Parliament endorsed a plan Wednesday to update the EU's watchlist of countries with porous anti-money laundering regimes for the first since time since December 2023, laying the groundwork for the potential inclusion of a high-profile adversary. After weeks of negotiations and a last-minute concession that could see Russia added to the watchlist, lawmakers in Strasbourg, France, brushed aside objections and approved a plan that will otherwise bring the bloc's policies broadly in line with those of the Financial Action Task Force, or FATF, which keeps a comparable "gray list" of subpar jurisdictions. Barring any resistance from the EU's...