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Weekly Roundup: Whistleblowers Flag AML Gaps at Cash App, Swiss Banker Ignored 1MDB Payments, and More

A pair of whistleblowers warned U.S. officials that mobile payment platform Cash App has made itself vulnerable to money launderers and terrorist financiers by failing to adequately vet its customers, NBC News reported. More A Swiss court found private bank Lombard Odier's former head of compliance guilty of breaching his duty to report suspicious transactions linked to the embezzlement and laundering of funds from Malaysian sovereign wealth fund 1MDB, Gotham City reported. More The U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control, also known as OFAC, blacklisted members and other elements of a procurement network linked to the illegal export of goods...

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