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The director of Malta's financial intelligence unit told ACAMS moneylaundering.com that legal rulings against the agency's anti-money laundering enforcement decisions could encourage more parties to challenge their AML-related penalties in court. More Wirecard, the German payment processor that collapsed in 2020 under the weight of a massive accounting scandal, forged client data and lied about internal records to secure a €900 million investment from Japan's SoftBank the previous year, the Financial Times reported. More Europol's latest annual report on terrorist financing dedicates special attention to crowdfunding platforms and other financial technology-based firms, or fintechs, which, according to the agency, have...