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Midweek Roundup: ‘Cyber Event’ Targets Canadian FIU, Netherlands Fines VASP, and More

An unspecified "cyber event" has prompted Canada's financial intelligence unit to temporarily disable some of the "corporate systems" through which banks, money services businesses and other companies flag transactions as suspicious, ACAMS moneylaundering.com reported. More and More The Dutch central bank fined Singapore-headquartered virtual asset service platform Crypto.com €2.9 million for serving customers in the Netherlands without authorization from May 2020 to November 2022, moneylaundering.com reported. More U.K. officials proposed giving financial institutions more discretion in deciding how thoroughly they should vet clients and payments linked to countries on a global watchlist maintained by the Financial Action Task Force, moneylaundering.com...

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