Egmont Group’s Horizontal Analysis of AML/CFT effectiveness in Europe II reveals weak FIU capacity, poor-quality STRs, and slow cross-border cooperation undermine financial intelligence against ML

by | Jan 14, 2026

The Egmont Group’s Europe II horizontal analysis examines how jurisdictions perform on Immediate Outcome 2 (international cooperation) and Immediate Outcome 6 (use of financial intelligence), drawing on findings from FATF and MONEYVAL mutual evaluations. It identifies...

FinCEN’s 2025 Financial Trend Analysis on Ransomware shows that between 2022–24, FIs reported 4,194 ransomware incidents in 7,395 BSA filings, with total payments over $2.1B, peaking in 2023 at $1.1B

by | Dec 4, 2025

The analysis highlights a sustained rise in high-impact ransomware incidents, with attackers increasingly using techniques such as double extortion, pig-butchering–linked access, and rapid laundering of proceeds through mixers, chain-hopping and cross-chain bridges....

EBA’s 2025 Factsheet, AI Act: Implications for the EU Banking and Payments Sector, urges banks to enforce strict governance, transparency, and accountability for high-risk AI in credit scoring

by | Nov 21, 2025

The EBA’s analysis identifies that AI systems commonly used by banks — such as those for evaluating creditworthiness, pricing, customer clustering and transaction monitoring — fall under the high-risk category of the AI Act and must comply with obligations including...