Recent Posts

• FATF’s report on ‘Understanding and Mitigating the Risks of Offshore VASPs’ warns that offshore crypto providers create AML/CFT blind spots, enabling fraud, ML, and TF through weak oversight
• AMLA launches a major EU-wide data collection exercise with banks to test and calibrate its risk assessment models, preparing to tighten oversight and directly supervise high-risk FIs starting in 2028
• INTERPOL’s Global Financial Fraud Threat Assessment 2026 warns of a surging fraud crisis with AI scams 4.5× more profitable, $442B lost in 2025, Notices up 54%, and $1.1B recovered across 1500+ cases
• NCA launches the National Strategic Assessment of SOC 2026, warning that tech-driven, interconnected crime is rising rapidly and calling for a National Police Service to tackle it with intelligence and coordinated action
• UK SFO, France PNF and Swiss OAG to host landmark International Economic Crime Conference on 2–3 May 2026 in London, uniting 70+ agencies to tackle fraud, bribery, corruption, & crypto-related crime