According to an update to the list of signatories, Kazakhstan and Vanuatu have signed the Multilateral Competent Authority Agreement on Automatic Exchange of Financial Account Information, which provides for the exchange of information under the OECD Common Reporting Standard (CRS), bringing the total number of signatories to 102. According to the list, Kazakhstan intends to begin the first exchanges by September 2020 and Vanuatu intends to begin by September 2018.