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Nasdaq’s 2024 Global Financial Crime Report reveals $3.1 trillion in illicit funds surged through the global financial system in 2023, financing ML, human and drug trafficking, and terrorism
This included money laundering funding crimes such as human trafficking ($346.7B), drug trafficking ($782.9B), and terrorism ($11.5B). Additionally, fraud and bank fraud schemes resulted in projected global losses of $485.6 billion. These figures underscore the significant human and financial impacts of financial crime…
FATF’s report ‘Detecting, Disrupting, and Investigating Online Child Sexual Exploitation’ highlights the financial flows behind these crimes and calls for urgent action from authorities and FIs
The report highlights how cryptocurrency, prepaid cards, anonymous payment processors, and underground banking networks are exploited to move illicit funds across borders. Dark web markets, peer-to-peer transactions, and unregulated digital payment platforms further obscure the financial trails, making detection and disruption more challenging…
OCCRP uncovers $35m crypto fraud and ML scheme – Georgian Call Centre used deepfakes and fake identities to defraud 6,000 victims
The scammers utilised deepfake videos featuring celebrities like Ben Fogle to promote fraudulent cryptocurrency investments, The operation, linked to the Georgian telemarketing firm AK Group, employed deceptive tactics, including false identities and forged documents, to perpetrate the fraud Georgian prosecutors have initiated a criminal investigation into A.K. Group…
OECD’s ESG Ratings report exposes gaps in sustainability metrics, highlighting disparities in fraud, human rights, climate resilience, and supply chain risk assessments
This report evaluates the scope, characteristics, and comparability of over 2,000 ESG metrics from eight major rating products, based on the OECD’s collection and classification, highlighting how ESG metrics increasingly influence business and investment decisions…
FATF Plenary (19-21 Feb 2025) addressed illicit finance, online child exploitation, financial inclusion, and high-risk jurisdictions, emphasising digital assets, corruption, and cross-border financial flows
The strategic initiatives include: FATF revised Standards to enhance financial inclusion for 1.4bn unbanked, promoting a RBA and encouraging SDD for lower-risk scenarios. A landmark report was approved, using FATF’s Global Network to link financial transactions to offenders and enabling earlier intervention in online child sexual exploitation…
IEP Global Terrorism Index 2025 reveals terrorist groups using AI, DeFi, crypto, and illicit trade to outpace AML/CFT efforts
The report highlights how terrorist groups are exploiting AI, DeFi, cryptocurrency, and illicit trade to bypass AML/CFT controls. The report examines the most dangerous financial networks, key terrorist financing risks, and high-risk regions fuelling extremist funding, including Western Europe, the U.S., the Russia-Ukraine conflict zone, and the MENA region…
FATF consults on complex proliferation financing risks and sanctions evasion to enhance understanding of typologies, identify enforcement challenges and risk mitigation strategies
The resulting report will focus on providing a comprehensive up-to-date understanding of typologies in complex sanctions evasion schemes relevant to PF and identifying enforcement challenges and best practices, which helps to inform countries’ PF risk assessment and risk mitigation. The deadline for comments on the consultation is 21 March 2025…
FATF amends Rec.1, 10 and 15 to better promote financial inclusion with increased focus on proportionality and simplified measures
These changes aim to help financial institutions feel more confident in providing services to underserved populations, ultimately improving access to financial services for the 1.4 billion unbanked individuals worldwide…
FATF launches 2nd Consultation on R.16 to strengthen Payment Transparency to ensure technology-neutral standards and improve cross-border transaction efficiency
These updates aim to maintain technology neutrality and uphold the principle of “same activity, same risk, same rules” while enhancing the speed, cost-efficiency, transparency, and security of cross-border payments, in line with the G20 Priority Action Plan…
Egmont Group Executive Secretary highlights FIUs’ role in combating TF at the No Money for Terror conference, stressing multilateral information exchange and tech-driven solutions
Key points highlighted the misuse of virtual assets by terrorists to recruit, transfer funds anonymously, and operate via the dark web, with FIUs playing a key role in detecting illicit flows. Public-private partnerships (PPPs) were emphasized as critical for early intelligence sharing, enabling financial institutions to disrupt threats and trace links after attacks. The Egmont Centre of FIU Excellence and Leadership (ECOFEL) was promoted…
FATF president delivers speech at No Money for Terror conference in Munich
The speech underscores the importance of international cooperation, effective frameworks, and collaboration with the private sector to track and dismantle financial networks that support terrorism. The FATF’s role in enhancing financial intelligence and prosecuting terrorist financing is emphasized, along with the necessity of leveraging technology and intelligence-sharing.
INTERPOL and AFRIPOL support Nigerian Agencies in a major crackdown on organised crime; leading to 36 arrests and $3m in seizures, targeting financial crime, cybercrime, drug and human trafficking
Among the crimes uncovered, common tactics included ‘romance baiting’, in which criminals cultivate online relationships to manipulate victims into investing or transferring their money; investment and cryptocurrency scams, where perpetrators lure victims in fictitious financial schemes; and celebrity scams, which involve the impersonation of well-known figures to solicit money from fans…