Key Metric Suggests STR Quality Dropped in Europe Since 2015

Key Metric Suggests STR Quality
Dropped in Europe Since 2015

Record US Forfeiture Targets Fugitive Pig-Butcherer, Cambodian Scam Network

Record US Forfeiture Targets Fugitive
Pig-Butcherer, Cambodian Scam Network

At OCC, New Panel Vets VASP Charters

At OCC, New Panel Vets VASP Charters
Associated Press

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For AML Overhaul, Britain Chooses Newer, Stronger FCA

By Koos Couvée

Britain plans to strip self-regulating agencies for lawyers and accountants of their AML supervisory remit.

October 21, 2025

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US Senate Bill Would Revise SAR, CTR Thresholds

Breaking October 21, 2025: 8:34 am ET

FCA to Take Over AML Supervision of UK Law and Accounting Firms

Faster Resolutions Slash British AML Regulator’s Caseload

By Koos Couvée

The FCA has closed more than 100 cases since April 2023, including by promising leniency to suspected offenders who cooperate with investigators.

October 20, 2025

Weekly Roundup: France Warns Binance, Wealthy Clients Draw Scrutiny, and More

Iraqi transition impedes financial intelligence, online sleuth identifies rare technique, and more, in the weekly roundup.

October 17, 2025

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Enforcement Actions

FINTRAC Fines Xeltox Enterprises Ltd. CA$176.9 Million for AML Violations, Sanctions Noncompliance

The Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada imposed a record administrative monetary penalty of CA$176,960,190 on the Vancouver-based virtual currency exchange for 2,593 violations of the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act and related regulations.

October 22, 2025

SRA Fines A S Solicitors £2,429 for Breaches of MLRs

The Solicitors Regulation Authority entered into a regulatory settlement agreement with the London, U.K.-based firm, requiring it to pay a £2,429 fine and investigation costs of £600 for breaches of anti-money laundering regulations.

October 21, 2025

Legs & Regs

UK Sanctions Western Balkans Gang Leaders, Others for People Smuggling

The Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office announced sanctions targeting Balkan-based criminal gang leaders, passport forgers, and illicit financiers for their roles in enabling illegal migration to the U.K.

October 22, 2025

OFSI Adds 12 Individuals, One Entity to Global Irregular Migration Sanctions List

HM Treasury’s Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) issued a notice concerning the addition of 12 individuals and one entity to the U.K. Sanctions List pursuant to the Global Irregular Migration and Trafficking in Persons (Sanctions) Regulations 2025.

October 22, 2025

FCA Director of Enforcement Highlights Faster Outcomes

Therese Chambers, joint executive director of enforcement and market oversight at the Financial Conduct Authority, delivered remarks on how the regulator is reinforcing its commitment to integrity through pragmatic enforcement.

October 21, 2025

FCA Official Welcomes Reforms to AML/CTF Supervision

Steve Smart, joint executive director of enforcement and market oversight at the Financial Conduct Authority, responded to HM Treasury’s decision to reform anti-money laundering and counterterrorist financing supervision.

October 21, 2025

Financial Crime Matters: Senior FBI Officials Discuss Fraud

October 31, 2023

In the latest episode of Financial Crime Matters, Kieran Beer, editor in chief of ACAMS moneylaundering.com, talks with the FBI’s James Barnacle and Christopher Soyez about the agency’s fight against fraud and its efforts to recover stolen assets.

Stephanie Baker on Punishing Putin

June 30, 2025

In the latest episode of Sanctions Space, Justine Walker, head of global sanctions and risk at ACAMS, and Stephanie Baker, author of 'Punishing Putin: Inside the Global Economic War to Bring Down Russia,' discuss sanctions loopholes Russia exploits to finance its war with Ukraine, and U.S. use of 'secondary tariffs' to deter purchases of Russian oil.

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