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OECD report ‘Benefits of AI Openness’ examines how open AI systems, through shared models, datasets and collaboration, can drive innovation, improve transparency and support inclusive economic growth

May 29, 2026

The report assesses the potential benefits of AI openness, drawing on OECD analysis, the OECD.AI Policy Observatory and third-party research to consider how openness may affect economic outcomes, innovation dynamics and regional or national AI development. It introduces an AI stack framework to distinguish how openness operates across different layers of AI systems, helping policymakers identify where open approaches may support growth while still requiring appropriate governance..

OECD Policy Paper on ‘Cybersecurity Regulations’ calls for greater global alignment of cybersecurity rules to reduce fragmentation, improve resilience and strengthen cross-border digital security

May 27, 2026

The policy paper examines the growing fragmentation of cybersecurity regulations across jurisdictions, including the drivers behind diverging rules and the consequences for governments and businesses, such as higher compliance costs and diversion of resources from core cybersecurity functions. It also maps domestic, regional and international initiatives to improve regulatory coherence, calling for stronger dialogue among policymakers, regulators and businesses and a better evidence base for future action…

INTERPOL’s Operation Orca XI disrupts major transnational criminal networks across 20 countries in the Americas, seizing 3,308 firearms, 56 tonnes of drugs and leading to over 8,700 arrests

May 26, 2026

Conducted across Central America, South America and the Caribbean, the operation targeted transnational criminal networks involved in firearms trafficking, drug trafficking, and related organised crime activities. Authorities also recovered cash, vehicles, and dismantled criminal groups linked to wider illicit flows, including terrorism financing and money laundering. The operation highlighted the strong interconnection between firearms trafficking and other serious crimes, with criminal networks exploiting shared routes for drugs, weapons and illicit finance across the region…

Egmont Group publishes its 2024–25 Annual Report, marking 30 years of global FIU cooperation and highlighting strengthened capacity building, and intelligence sharing to combat financial crime

May 26, 2026

It highlights progress across its Working Groups and Regional Groups, alongside the Egmont Centre of FIU Excellence and Leadership (ECOFEL), focusing on improving secure information exchange, operational coordination, and analytical capacity. The report also underscores strategic priorities such as enhancing cross-border intelligence sharing, expanding…

UNODC’s research brief exposes organised crime as a global FC engine driving illicit flows through trafficking, cyber-fraud and corruption, demanding stronger disruption of criminal money networks

May 25, 2026

It explains how these groups establish “criminal governance” through coercion, corruption, and service provision, exploit digital technologies to scale fraud and cross-border operations, and increasingly infiltrate legitimate economies and institutions. The report calls for stronger international responses, including joint threat analysis, improved information sharing, disruption of illicit financial flows, and recovery of criminal proceeds to effectively combat transnational organized crime…

Wolfsberg Forum 2026 convened global leaders to accelerate AI-driven, effectiveness-led AML/CFT, focusing on measurable impact, deeper public–private collaboration, and the disruption of FC

May 22, 2026

Participants explored new ways to define effectiveness through measurable outcomes and KPIs, alongside cross-border “operational sprints” targeting threats such as fentanyl trafficking, trade-based money laundering, fraud networks, and terrorist financing. The forum reinforced that stronger public–private partnerships, better data use, and responsible innovation are essential to modernising financial crime controls and improving real-world disruption of illicit finance globally…

FFIS’s report ‘A Survey of Collaborative Analytics Platforms to Tackle Fraud’ maps 37 global anti-fraud information-sharing platforms and calls for stronger cross-border, data-driven defences against FC

May 22, 2026

The report analyses their structures, data practices, interoperability, effectiveness measurement, legal frameworks, and key barriers to collaboration and cross-border cooperation. It concludes with practical options for designing domestic fraud information-sharing systems and calls for stronger international policy coordination to enable global platform interoperability, drawing on insights from the 2026 Global Fraud Summit and FFIS 2026 engagements..

Egmont Group Chair stressed at the 2026 Wolfsberg Forum that public–private partnerships, stronger legal frameworks, and two-way information sharing are key to tackling cross-border FC

May 21, 2026

The article highlights how collaborative frameworks between FIUs and private sector entities support faster identification of suspicious activity patterns and more effective disruption of illicit financial networks. Greater data sharing, operational coordination, and technological innovation are also presented as key tools for improving AML/CFT effectiveness in response to increasingly complex cross-border financial crime threats…

INTERPOL’s ‘Operation Ramz’ across 13 MENA countries led to 201 arrests, 382 suspects identified and 53 servers seized, disrupting major cybercrime networks linked to fraud, phishing and malware

May 18, 2026

The operation involved law enforcement agencies from multiple MENA countries working with INTERPOL and private sector partners to identify suspects, dismantle infrastructure, and seize digital evidence linked to cyber-enabled criminal activity. Authorities also targeted schemes facilitating illicit financial flows through online scams, credential theft, and business email compromise attacks, highlighting the increasing convergence of cybercrime and money laundering threats…

GI-TOC’s Policy paper ‘Turning the Tide Together’ warns that the Pacific’s growing methamphetamine trade is empowering transnational crime networks, fuelling illicit finance, corruption and instability

May 15, 2026

The paper highlights how Pacific Island countries are facing growing domestic methamphetamine consumption alongside increased trafficking activity linked to transnational organised crime networks operating across Asia and Oceania. GI-TOC and the Pacific Security College call for a Pacific Islands Forum-led regional summit in 2027 and development of a Pacific-led Regional Synthetic Drugs Strategy focused on prevention, treatment, harm reduction, law enforcement cooperation, and community resilience…

FATF Mutual Evaluation Report praises Singapore’s strong AML/CFT regime but warns of growing risks from foreign illicit finance, cyber fraud and proliferation financing

May 7, 2026

The report highlights strong performance in international cooperation, use of financial intelligence, supervision of financial institutions, and asset recovery, supported by coordinated public-private engagement and responsive policy reform. FATF also identifies gaps relating to beneficial ownership verification, implementation of targeted financial sanctions, and the deterrent effect of penalties imposed in significant money laundering cases, prompting recommendations for further strengthening of the regime…

TI’s report urges the UK Illicit Finance Summit to move beyond pledges with stronger AML enforcement, greater BO transparency, tighter real estate controls and tougher accountability for enablers