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US DoJ announced that the Dubai-based Wall Street Exchange will pay over $9.2 m to settle a bank fraud investigation

by Jyotsna Bucktowar | Jan 22, 2025

The company admitted responsibility for past actions of its former executives including failing to disclose ML violations and misrepresenting facts to Bank between 2015 and 2018. Despite regulatory actions against its subsidiary, Forex, WSE maintained banking...

INTERPOL led a major wildlife trafficking operation that resulted in the repatriation of 116 endangered tortoises to Tanzania, after they were intercepted in Thailand over 2 years ago

by Jyotsna Bucktowar | Jan 22, 2025

Thai authorities seized critically endangered pancake and radiated tortoises in 2023, with a handover ceremony held in Bangkok on Jan 23, 25. An Interpol investigation led to 14 arrests and uncovered a trafficking network. Survivors will be quarantined despite some...

BBC: Bangladesh’s AML agency has requested banks to provide account and transaction details linked to Treasury Minister Tulip Siddiq

by Jyotsna Bucktowar | Jan 7, 2025

The Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit has requested account details linked to Tulip Siddiq, her family, and her aunt Sheikh Hasina the former prime minister, following allegations of embezzlement of £3.9bn from Bangladesh’s infrastructure funds. Siddiq,...

Reuters: Portugal’s Novo Banco fires Chief Risk Officer over ‘suspicious transactions,’ reports matter to regulator

by Jyotsna Bucktowar | Jan 7, 2025

Novo Banco has dismissed its chief risk officer, Carlos Jorge Ferreira Brandao following an internal investigation and reported concerns about his conduct to Portugal’s banking regulator. The bank also filed a complaint with the Public Prosecutor’s Office,...

FT Adviser: FCA is set to revise its controversial ‘name and shame’ proposals after backlash from financial institutions

by Jyotsna Bucktowar | Nov 14, 2024

In a session with the Financial Services Regulation Committee, FCA CEO Nikhil Rathi explained that the update was delayed to hear the committee’s input first. He acknowledged that the FCA’s previous communication of its proposals caused some...
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