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Midweek Roundup: Latest UK Database Identifies Sanctions Hits, UK AML Regulator Targets Foreign Banks, and More

At least 18 entities that hold U.K. real estate from offshore identified at least one of their owners as a U.K. or U.N.-blacklisted party, analysis shared with ACAMS moneylaundering.com indicates. More The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority fined the U.K. subsidiaries of Nigeria's Guaranty Trust Bank £7.6 million and Qatar's Al Rayan Bank £4 million for failing to resolve widespread anti-money laundering deficiencies despite repeated warnings, moneylaundering.com reported. More Federal prosecutors in Seattle have subpoenaed U.S. hedge funds for communications with Binance as part of an investigation into whether the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange may have broken anti-money laundering laws, The Washington...

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