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DOJ’s ‘FCPA 2.0’ Guidance Leaves Banks, Other Businesses Guessing
By Chelsea Carrick
An official memorandum to U.S. prosecutors effectively sidelines the FCPA.
June 23, 2025
Banks pressure Syria, Bank of Lithuania vindicated, and more, in the weekly roundup.
June 20, 2025
FATF Raises Alarm Over WMD Financing
By Koos Couvée
The world's primary AML standard-setter warned Friday that the finances of WMD proliferation increasingly flow through Russia.
June 20, 2025
DOJ Details Complex Laundering Scheme, Targets Pig-Butchering Profits
By Charlie Passut
U.S. prosecutors allege that a pig-butchering network used accounts at OKX to launder $225 million stolen from hundreds of victims.
June 19, 2025
Fraudsters Follow Cartel Money-Laundering Playbook
By Charlie Passut
Criminals who defraud elderly citizens often use the same financial channels as Mexican drug cartels.
June 19, 2025
Enforcement Actions
The Solicitors Regulation Authority entered into a settlement agreement with the Tunbridge Wells, U.K.-based firm that requires it to pay a £24,743 fine and investigation costs of £600 for anti-money laundering and counterterrorist financing violations.
June 23, 2025
The Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit issued a €243,537 fine and a follow-up directive against the St. Julian's, Malta-based financial institution for anti-money laundering and counterterrorist financing violations related to ongoing transaction monitoring and customer risk assessments.
June 23, 2025
Legs & Regs
FATF Publishes Updated Guidance on Financial Inclusion
The Financial Action Task Force published updated guidance that aims to support jurisdictions and the private sector in implementing proportionate, risk-based approaches to combating money laundering and terrorist financing that still promote and encourage financial inclusion.
June 23, 2025
FinCEN Alerts Financial Sector to Updated FATF List of High Risk Jurisdictions
The U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network issued a statement urging financial institutions to review the latest statements by the Financial Action Task Force on its revised lists of jurisdictions with anti-money laundering and counterterrorist financing deficiencies.
June 23, 2025
AUSTRAC CEO Discusses Significant AML Reforms at ACAMS Conference
Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre CEO Brendan Thomas delivered remarks at the Assembly Australasia 2025, highlighting Australia’s ambitious overhaul of anti-money laundering and counterterrorist financing laws.
June 23, 2025
New Zealand Urges Online Casino Gambling Operators to Register
New Zealand’s Department of Internal Affairs called on online casino gambling operators to register under the country’s new licensing framework.
June 23, 2025
June 17, 2025
In this episode of Financial Crime Matters, author Andy Greenberg and Tigran Gambaryan, former head of financial crime compliance at Binance, join Kieran Beer, editor in chief of ACAMS moneylaundering.com, to discuss Gambaryan’s detention in Nigeria
May 8, 2025
In the latest episode of Sanctions Space, Justine Walker, head of global sanctions and risk at ACAMS, and Kimberly Donovan, director of the Atlantic Council’s economic statecraft initiative, discuss geopolitical trends, sanctions compliance and the emergence of a global "axis of evasion."
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DOJ’s ‘FCPA 2.0’ Guidance Leaves Banks, Other Businesses Guessing
By Chelsea Carrick
An official memorandum to U.S. prosecutors effectively sidelines the FCPA.
June 23, 2025
Banks pressure Syria, Bank of Lithuania vindicated, and more, in the weekly roundup.
June 20, 2025
FATF Raises Alarm Over WMD Financing
By Koos Couvée
The world's primary AML standard-setter warned Friday that the finances of WMD proliferation increasingly flow through Russia.
June 20, 2025
DOJ Details Complex Laundering Scheme, Targets Pig-Butchering Profits
By Charlie Passut
U.S. prosecutors allege that a pig-butchering network used accounts at OKX to launder $225 million stolen from hundreds of victims.
June 19, 2025
Fraudsters Follow Cartel Money-Laundering Playbook
By Charlie Passut
Criminals who defraud elderly citizens often use the same financial channels as Mexican drug cartels.
June 19, 2025
Enforcement Actions
The Solicitors Regulation Authority entered into a settlement agreement with the Tunbridge Wells, U.K.-based firm that requires it to pay a £24,743 fine and investigation costs of £600 for anti-money laundering and counterterrorist financing violations.
June 23, 2025
The Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit issued a €243,537 fine and a follow-up directive against the St. Julian's, Malta-based financial institution for anti-money laundering and counterterrorist financing violations related to ongoing transaction monitoring and customer risk assessments.
June 23, 2025