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EU Council and EP reach deal on access to financial information

EU countries will have to make information from centralised bank account registers available through a single access point. This will help law enforcement and judicial authorities to fight criminal offences as they currently have to collect this information via the regular...
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European Council adopts rules which will make crypto-asset transfers traceable

The crypto asset service providers are obliged to collect and make accessible certain information about the sender and beneficiary of the transfers of crypto assets they operate, regardless of the amount of crypto assets being transacted, ensuring traceability of crypto-asset...
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TI Open Letter to the European Commission to uphold Corporate Transparency in the 6th AMLD

TI calls the EC to explicitly support strong provisions for meaningful stakeholder access to beneficial ownership registers that were recently proposed by the European Parliament and ask the EC to to help ensure that the 6th AMLD fully mitigates this risk and enables civil society...
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EBA publishes its Annual Report on convergence of supervisory practices for 2022

EBA notes EU wide consistent implementation of 2022 priorities in supervisory work programmes and further improvements in the functioning of supervisory colleges but calls for more attention in some areas. Competent authorities also showed ability to react to macro...
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MONEYVAL releases its Strategy on AML/CFT and proliferation financing (2023-2027)

MONEYVAL held a high-level meeting in Warsaw where Member states committed to improve the effectiveness of their regimes to prevent and combat money laundering, the financing of terrorism and weapons of mass destruction proliferation. Illicit finance poses a major...
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EU agrees comprehensive framework for Crypto Regulation

EP endorsed the first EU rules to trace crypto-asset transfers (like bitcoins & electronic money tokens), prevent money laundering, as well as common rules on supervision and customer protection. The aim is to ensure that crypto transfers can always be traced and suspicious...
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EU MEPs approves long-awaited EU AML Package

The EU AML package focuses on three pieces of draft legislation notably, the EU “single rulebook”, 6th AML directive and the regulation establishing the European AML Authority with supervisory and investigative powers to ensure compliance with AML/CFT requirements...
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EC proposes more transparency and less red tape for companies to improve business environment

EC adopted a proposal for a Directive making it easier for companies to expand the use of digital tools and processes in EU company law. It  aims to facilitate cross-border companies' operations and to increase business transparency and trust by making more information...
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FINMA says Credit Suisse could face disciplinary action

Credit Suisse could face a probe and disciplinary action over how top managers ran the bank in the run-up to its collapse and takeover by UBS. Marlene Amstad, president of the Swiss regulator Finma, told the newspaper NZZ am Sonntag, according to Bloomberg...
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Council of Europe removes Ukraine from blacklist of states that prevent combating corruption

GRECO has concluded that the current level of compliance with its recommendations is no longer "globally unsatisfactory," The group asked Ukraine to provide a report on the measures taken to implement the unfulfilled recommendations by March 31, 2024...
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Europol helps targetting Chipmixer, a cryptocurrency mixer well-known in the cybercriminal underworld

The investigation into the criminal service suggests that the platform may have facilitated the laundering of 152 000 Bitcoins in crypto assets. A large share of this is connected to darkweb markets, ransomware groups, illicit goods trafficking, procurement of child...
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OECD calls on Iceland to improve detection of foreign bribery

Iceland needs to increase the use of proactive steps to gather information from diverse sources at the pre-investigative and investigative stages both to increase the sources of allegations and enhance investigations. Other areas for improvement include stepping up efforts...
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