This article does make things a bit clearer than the click baity one that OP posted. Turns out in 9 days FATF are going to publish a recommendation. Certainly not that everything is going to grind to a halt in 9 days like the first article suggests.
nothing will happen on day 1 when the FATF recommendations drop. regulators need time to finalize their own national regs. and hopefully this is truly the case:
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After multiple meetings with the crypto industry, the regulators likely know compliance will take time, as the industry mulls new technologies and processes.
i've got a bad feeling about all this though. they seem intent on crushing the trading freedoms we currently enjoy.
the elephant in the room = binance, bitmex. huge exchanges that thrive off no KYC. they could be run out of town by their regulators (malta, seychelles) for noncompliance. then what, turn to FATF blacklist countries? that works fine for customers since it's 100% crypto but covering overheads, payrolls, etc is another story.
but they might be having some bench mark to identify many sub $1000 transactions to a particular account and if they set a trigger to monitor strange transactions, your account will be monitored and that is how things work in the real world. Lets see how they are going to implement these things, there is always a loop hole for every process 
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