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The Human Rights Watch World Report 2026 warns that as democracy weakens and authoritarianism rises, corruption, illicit financial flows, and abuse of power are gaining ground globally
The report highlights widespread abuses across multiple regions including repression of women and girls in Afghanistan, ongoing civilian harm in conflicts such as Sudan, Gaza, and Ukraine, and increasing restrictions on civil society, media freedom, and minority rights worldwide. It also warns that the global rules-based order is under strain, but emphasizes that civil society movements, democratic alliances, and public accountability efforts remain essential to protecting human rights and sustaining democratic values…
FSB unveils its 2026 Work Programme, focusing on AI, digital innovation, cross-border payments, and operational resilience to tackle emerging FC risks and bolster global financial stability
Key priorities with relevance to financial crime include assessing vulnerabilities in markets and nonbank financial intermediation, monitoring cross‑border payments, and examining digital innovation and AI, all of which intersect with AML/CFT and fraud risks. The programme also emphasises operational resilience, crisis preparedness, and implementation of reforms, alongside public-private collaboration and regulatory modernisation, supporting more effective detection, prevention, and oversight of illicit financial activity globally…
OECD’s releases Manual on Effective Mutual Agreement Procedures, providing practical guidance to help tax authorities resolve cross-border transfer-pricing disputes efficiently, reduce double taxation and improve certainty for taxpayers
The manual updates OECD guidance on the mutual agreement procedure (MAP) under tax treaties, outlining best practices, procedural steps and tools that competent authorities can use to address transfer-pricing and other treaty-related disputes. It aims to support consistent, timely and transparent resolution of cross-border tax issues, fostering more predictable outcomes and strengthening taxpayer confidence in dispute-resolution mechanisms.
UNODC and INTERPOL host the Global Fraud Summit on 16–17 March 2026 in Vienna to combat cross-border and digital fraud and advance enforcement with innovative strategies
The Summit aims to bring together senior government officials, law enforcement, international organisations, private‑sector leaders, civil society, and academia to discuss emerging global fraud trends, the digital and cross‑border dimensions of fraud, and strategies for detection, prevention, and enforcement. It will serve as a high‑level platform for strengthening international coordination and information sharing, promoting cross‑sector collaboration, and identifying areas for capacity building and joint action against transnational fraud…
INTERPOL’s Global Operation Liberterra III rescues 4,414 trafficking victims, flags nearly 13,000 irregular migrants, and arrests 3,744 suspects, exposing deep links to human smuggling, fraud, and ML
The operation mobilised more than 14,000 officers, leading to 3,744 arrests, including over 1,800 suspects linked to human trafficking and migrant smuggling, and triggered more than 720 new investigations. Key findings highlighted evolving criminal tactics — including trafficking‑fuelled scam schemes, rising forced labour and forced criminality, shifting migration patterns, and continued links between trafficking and other crimes such as document fraud, money laundering and drug trafficking — and showed that strengthened cooperation…
INTERPOL leads a major South American crackdown on illegal gold mining, with 198 arrests and seizures of gold, cash, and weapons, exposing environmental harm, and cross-border smuggling
The operation seized cash, unprocessed gold, mercury, firearms, mining equipment, and drugs, and targeted organised crime networks involved in gold smuggling and money laundering. Authorities highlighted that soaring gold prices are fueling criminal activity, causing serious environmental damage and social harm in the Amazon, while follow-up investigations will focus on tracking…
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
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 recurring weaknesses such as inconsistent STR quality, limited law-enforcement uptake of FIU intelligence and capacity constraints, while showing that strong inter-agency cooperation, proactive dissemination and robust IT systems are key drivers of higher effectiveness…
FATF publishes a guide outlining its 11 Immediate Outcomes (IOs), which evaluate how effectively countries combat ML/TF & PF while safeguarding against illicit finance
These outcomes cover a risk-based approach to targeting high-risk activities, international cooperation through information sharing and joint investigations, and supervision of both financial and non-financial sectors to ensure preventive measures are applied. They also include transparency of beneficial ownership, effective use of financial intelligence by FIUs, robust criminal justice measures, and the tracing, freezing, and confiscation of criminal assets. Additionally, the IOs assess the identification and prosecution of terrorist financing…
G7 Cyber Expert Group issues a statement outlining a coordinated roadmap for adopting post-quantum cryptography to protect the financial sector from future quantum computing risks
G7 CEG statement and roadmap highlights that future quantum computers could break the cryptographic protections that currently secure financial systems, including encryption used for transaction confidentiality, authentication, digital signatures, and data integrity — all foundational to preventing fraud, theft, and unauthorized access…
INTERPOL’s six-month Taskforce Operation nets 85 fugitives and tracks 18 more, dismantling high-level networks linked to murder, drug trafficking, human trafficking, and ML across 17 countries
Coordinated intelligence sharing and collaboration between law enforcement agencies enabled the identification and disruption of 184 top-priority cases, demonstrating the power of global cooperation in tracking dangerous criminals and dismantling organized crime networks, with further arrests expected as investigations continue…
FATF and the AfDB host a webinar on exiting the FATF Grey List, where South Africa, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, and Tanzania share practical reforms and lessons to achieve and sustain AML/CFT compliance
FATF and the African Development Bank jointly organised an online webinar that highlighted success stories and practical pathways for countries that have recently exited the FATF grey list after addressing strategic AML/CFT deficiencies. The session featured panelists from African governments, FIUs and international cooperation groups who discussed reforms undertaken, challenges encountered and best practices to help other jurisdictions strengthen anti-money-laundering and counter-financing frameworks…
INTERPOL’s Operation Sentinel arrests 574 cybercriminals and recovers $3M across 19 African countries, disrupting business email compromise, ransomware, and digital extortion networks
Authorities dismantled key criminal infrastructure, including over 6,000 malicious links and six ransomware variants, preventing losses exceeding USD 21 million. Notable successes include stopping a USD 7.9 million BEC transfer in Senegal, recovering 30 terabytes of ransomware-encrypted data in Ghana, dismantling online fraud networks defrauding over 200 victims, shutting down 43 malicious domains and 4,300 social media accounts in Benin, and taking down phishing infrastructure in Cameroon…