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MAS consults on a prudential framework for banks’ exposure to cryptoassets on permissionless blockchains, aiming to balance innovation with financial stability through appropriate capital and risk controls
The consultation considers whether cryptoassets on public, permissionless blockchains—previously treated as inherently high risk—could qualify for more favourable regulatory classification if they meet specific conditions on governance, transparency and risk management. MAS aims to align its framework with Basel cryptoasset standards, balancing financial-stability concerns with support for innovation, while ensuring banks hold capital commensurate with the risks posed by different types of crypto exposures…
CBUAE updates its AML/CFT/CPF guidance for licensed FIs, strengthening risk-based controls, due diligence, and monitoring to boost compliance and combat FC more effectively
The guidance introduces enhanced expectations across key areas including customer due diligence, correspondent banking, trade-based money laundering, and proliferation financing risk management, supported by more structured training and governance frameworks. Reforms require institutions to adopt continuous, enterprise-wide risk assessment and more effective transaction monitoring, reinforcing the UAE’s broader strategy to improve AML/CFT effectiveness and align with FATF standards…
AUSTRAC flags a major AML blind spot in wealth management, with 98% of firms filing no suspicious matter reports in 2025, signalling serious gaps in detecting financial crime risks
Briefing highlights that most firms report no high-risk customers or suspicious matters despite evidence of exposure to higher-risk scenarios, indicating weak risk identification and reporting practices. It also emphasises vulnerabilities linked to digital channels, cyber-enabled fraud, and misuse of customer identities, and calls for stronger controls and more effective AML/CFT reporting to improve detection…
AUSTRAC highlights that banks are strengthening oversight and reporting to disrupt illicit tobacco-related financial flows, helping to identify and cut off criminal profits linked to organised crime
The report emphasises the scale of the illicit tobacco market as a serious financial crime threat associated with tax evasion, violence, and broader organised criminal activity. Enhanced transaction monitoring, suspicious matter reporting, and intelligence sharing between banks and authorities support improved detection and more effective law enforcement disruption efforts.
The Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) launches a PMLA portal as a centralised platform to support AML/CFT compliance, strengthening awareness and the fight against FC
The portal provides a centralised platform for regulatory guidance, reporting resources and access to relevant notifications to support compliance with India’s Prevention of Money Laundering framework. According to the Institute of Company Secretaries of India, the initiative is intended to enhance transparency and facilitate adherence to AML and CFT obligations among reporting entities…
AUSTRAC finalises AML/CTF transitional and amendment rules, setting clear timelines for CDD, travel rule for payment transparency, and VASP obligations to help businesses strengthen ML/TF controls
Key timelines include a 3-year transition period for CDD, deadlines to update compliance officer details, and deferred requirements for virtual asset services until 1 July 2026. The changes also include technical amendments to simplify compliance, enhance beneficial ownership transparency, and streamline reporting group structures, all aimed at building a more risk-based, modern AML framework aligned with global standards…
TI’s Enabler Accountability for Illicit Financial Flows report reveals weak oversight and enforcement in Africa, enabling professional enablers to facilitate illicit finance with minimal consequences
The report highlights that both criminal and administrative responses are inconsistently applied, with investigations often discontinued and penalties too low to deter misconduct. It also underscores structural gaps in anti-money laundering coverage and supervision, particularly where certain professions fall outside regulatory frameworks, limiting authorities’ ability to hold enablers to account…
AUSTRAC opens enrolment for newly regulated ‘tranche 2’ professions, marking a key step in expanding the AML/CTF regime, with enrolment from 31 March 2026 and full compliance required by 1 July 2026
The reforms will expand AUSTRAC’s oversight from 19,000 to nearly 100,000 businesses, marking the most significant overhaul in over 20 years and aiming to close long-standing gaps exploited by criminals, particularly in financial and property transactions. Newly covered businesses will be required to implement AML/CTF programs, customer due diligence, suspicious matter reporting, and record-keeping, while existing entities must provide enhanced…
AUSTRAC highlights ECDD as a key tool for crypto ATM providers to detect suspicious activity, identify high-risk customers, and act swiftly against ML and scams
Since September 2025, crypto ATM providers have been subject to enhanced regulatory conditions—including transaction limits, mandatory scam warnings, and targeted ECDD triggers—significantly strengthening their ability to detect and disrupt financial crime; these measures are enabling providers to identify complex and high-risk transaction patterns, verify source of funds, and take early action, with real case examples revealing large cash transactions, structuring behaviour, and potential money laundering leading to account closures, suspicious matter reports, and referrals to law…
OCCRP reveals a billion-dollar scheme tied to Taiwanese organised crime, where networks laundered over $1B through Macau casinos using recruited money mules” to exploit credit card systems
Individuals were recruited to artificially inflate credit limits, purchase large volumes of casino chips, and then cash them out, effectively transforming illicit proceeds into seemingly legitimate gambling winnings; this typology reflects classic placement and layering stages of ML, exploiting weaknesses in casino AML controls, customer due diligence, and cross-border transaction monitoring, while also raising concerns around complicit or negligent financial…
MAS partners with industry under Project MindForge to launch a practical AI Risk Management Toolkit, helping FIs turn principles into action and safely harness advanced AI while driving innovation
Developed under Project MindForge with a consortium of 24 financial institutions and industry partners, the toolkit provides practical guidance for managing risks across traditional AI, generative AI and emerging agentic systems, including an operational handbook and real-world case studies. MAS also plans to establish an industry workgroup to update the toolkit and promote knowledge-sharing, reinforcing supervisory expectations on governance, risk assessment and lifecycle controls to ensure responsible AI adoption in financial services…
UAE dismantles a Hezbollah- and Iran-linked network that used front companies for ML and TF, underscoring its zero-tolerance stance on threats to financial integrity and national security
Authorities revealed that the group coordinated with external actors, exploited legitimate business structures, and attempted to infiltrate the financial system to move and disguise funds linked to sanctioned entities. The crackdown highlights the UAE’s intensified efforts to combat financial crime and terrorism financing, with officials reaffirming a zero-tolerance approach and warning that any attempts to undermine national security or financial integrity will be met with strict enforcement…