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Europol seizes 16.6M counterfeit and dangerous toys worth €36.8M, reporting 555 individuals in a major crackdown on organised illicit trade

November 27, 2025

Over successive rounds of Operation LUDUS, Europol coordinates seizures of millions of counterfeit and unsafe toys, uncovering complex trafficking networks that exploit weak online-marketplace oversight, limited traceability and minimal import controls. The operations expose both significant intellectual-property and economic harm to legitimate manufacturers and serious consumer-safety risks, including toxic-…

FINTRAC publishes Operational Alert, Laundering the Proceeds of Online Child Sexual Exploitation, introducing new indicators to help businesses detect and report financial transactions linked to OCSE

November 27, 2025

By tracing financial flows, FINTRAC generates actionable intelligence that aids law enforcement in Canada and internationally to identify and target perpetrators. The Alert updates FINTRAC’s December 2020 strategic intelligence, reflecting new indicators based on analysis conducted with financial institutions, law enforcement, government agencies, and international FIUs…

EP and the Council of the EU secure a landmark payments deal that clamps down on online fraud, boosts consumer protection, and forces full fee transparency to make digital payments safer and fairer 

November 27, 2025

EP and the Council of the EU have reached a deal on new payment-services rules (PSR/PSD3) that significantly bolster consumer protection by cracking down on online fraud, making providers liable when they fail to prevent it, requiring stronger verification and quicker victim reimbursement, mandating full transparency on fees, and improving access to cash, marking a major overhaul of the EU’s payments…

EC releases draft format for submitting BOI to central registers, providing a checklist of min. data requirements to standardise reporting, enhance transparency, and support AML efforts across the EU

November 27, 2025

The aim is to support harmonisation under the broader EU anti-money laundering (AML) framework, ensuring that BOI data (for companies, trusts and other legal arrangements) are recorded in a central register in a way that is machine-readable, usable and legally reliable. The formats would facilitate easier verification, automated checks, and help regulators, financial institutions and obliged entities efficiently…

EC unveils DigComp 3.0, an updated digital-competence framework for 2025 designed to equip Europe with essential skills in AI, cybersecurity, digital wellbeing, and misinformation

November 27, 2025

The framework aims at equipping European citizens, educators, and employers with essential skills in artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, digital wellbeing, and combating misinformation, while providing over 500 detailed learning outcomes to guide upskilling, reskilling, and lifelong digital education across the EU in response to rapidly evolving technologies and increasing digital risks…

FCA outlines a sharper approach to regulating cryptoassets and stablecoins, emphasising that innovation must be backed by strong consumer protection, FC controls, and robust governance

November 26, 2025

The FCA states that it intends to bring cryptoasset businesses — including stablecoin issuers — within a “proportionate, sustainable” regulatory regime that applies core standards (governance, disclosure, consumer safeguards) similar to those for traditional financial firms. It also launches a stablecoin-specific cohort within its Regulatory Sandbox to allow firms to test innovations under supervision, signalling that firms should begin preparing now for authorisation under the upcoming UK crypto regime…

FCA collaborates with crypto firms in its Regulatory Sandbox to test standardised disclosures, enhancing transparency, protecting investors, and shaping the UK’s crypto rules for 2026

November 26, 2025

Eunice a RegTech platform has been accepted into the FCA’s Regulatory Sandbox to pilot an “industry‑led disclosure solution” for crypto markets. Eunice will work with major crypto firms (including Coinbase, Kraken and Crypto.com) to test standardised disclosure templates covering tokenised assets, cryptoassets and on‑chain infrastructure — helping ensure investors receive clear, consistent information…

EP adopts a resolution on the impact of AI on the financial sector, highlighting its potential for smarter fraud detection and AML monitoring while stressing the need for strong oversight to prevent risks and FC threats

November 25, 2025

To harness AI responsibly, EP urges robust human oversight, transparent and explainable models, rigorous data governance, reinforced supervisory expertise, and international cooperation—ensuring innovation drives efficiency and financial integrity without opening doors to fraud, money laundering, or discriminatory practices…

 

 

EP’s latest briefing shows that the EU’s new AML/CFT framework, anchored by AMLA, unifies supervision, closes regulatory gaps, enforces stricter due diligence and BO rules

November 24, 2025

The briefing aims to harmonise supervision, close regulatory gaps, and strengthen enforcement across the bloc through a single AML rulebook, stricter due-diligence and beneficial-ownership transparency rules, an expanded list of obliged entities, a €10,000 cash-payment cap, and enhanced cross-border cooperation to better detect, prevent, and prosecute money laundering and terrorist financing…

EBA’s 2025 Factsheet, AI Act: Implications for the EU Banking and Payments Sector, urges banks to enforce strict governance, transparency, and accountability for high-risk AI in credit scoring

November 21, 2025

The EBA’s analysis identifies that AI systems commonly used by banks — such as those for evaluating creditworthiness, pricing, customer clustering and transaction monitoring — fall under the high-risk category of the AI Act and must comply with obligations including rigorous documentation, risk-management procedures, post-deployment monitoring and log-keeping. While the EBA finds no fundamental conflict..

FCA’s Consultation Paper proposes reforms to simplify UK transaction reporting, cut compliance costs by over £100M, and enhance data quality for detecting FC and market abuse – feedback by 20 Feb 26

November 21, 2025

Under consultation paper CP25/32, the FCA seeks to streamline the UK transaction-reporting regime by narrowing its scope to instruments traded on UK venues, removing mandatory reporting for FX derivatives, and cutting required data fields (reducing transaction-reporting fields from 65 to 52). It also proposes shortening the window for resubmitting corrected reports from five to three years (with a longer period possible for serious failures), and aligns future reforms with a broader plan to integrate reporting across multiple regimes including MiFIR…

NCA exposes a billion-dollar Russian ML network that allegedly bought a Lithuanian bank to funnel war-funding, revealing a sophisticated web of shell firms, corrupt intermediaries and global illicit finance

November 21, 2025

Through Operation Destabilise, the NCA uncovers a sprawling criminal network operating across at least 28 UK cities that funnels cash from drugs, firearms, and people-smuggling into cryptocurrency, and which uses a bank acquisition in Kyrgyzstan to channel funds to entities supporting Russia’s military-industrial complex. To date, authorities have arrested 128 suspects and seized more than £25 million in cash ….

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