Our extensive knowledge at your fingertips
Over 20 years of articles and reference material
A page dedicated to global, regional, UK and US anti-money laundering developments and initiatives.
Browse the resource database or make a sub-selection:
Menu
Latest editions
Search
Topics
- Topics
- Accountability
- AML/CTF
- AML/CTF compliance programme
- Anti-corruption
- Artificial intelligence
- Asset Recovery
- Beneficial Ownership
- Biodiversity
- Bribery & Corruption
- Bribes
- CDD
- Complex structures
- Confiscation & Freezing
- Conflict of Interest
- Correspondent Banking
- Corruption
- Counterfeiting
- Crime
- Cross-border finance
- Cryptoassets
- Cryptocurrencies
- Cybercrime
- Data Protection
- Digital assets
- Digitalisation
- Drug Trafficking
- EDD
- Enforcement
- Environmental crime
- ESG
- Ethics
- EU ML Directive
- FCPA
- Financial Crime
- Financial Inclusion & Literacy
- Financial Sanctions
- Fines & Enforcements
- FinTech
- FIU
- Fraud
- Gambling
- Greenwashing
- Human Rights
- Human Trafficking
- Illicit Finance
- Illicit Trafficking
- Information Sharing
- Integrity
- Intellectual property
- Investigations
- kleptocracy
- KYC
- Land justice
- Machine Learning
- Modern Slavery
- Money Laundering (ML)
- NPOs
- Offshore
- Onboarding
- Organised crime
- Payments
- PEPs
- Proliferation
- Proliferation of WMD
- Public Officials
- Ransomware
- RegTech
- Risk
- Sanctions
- Senior Managers & Certification Regime (SMCR)
- Shell Companies
- Source of wealth & funds
- Stablecoins
- Supervision
- Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs)
- Suspicious Transaction Reports (STRs)
- Tax
- Tax Evasion
- Technology
- Terrorist Financing
- Trade Finance
- Trafficking
- Transaction Monitoring
- Transfers
- Transnational crime
- Transparency
- Travel
- Unexplained Wealth Order
- Virtual Assets
- Virtual currencies
- Whistleblowing
- Wildlife crime
Industry
Organisation
- Organisation
- ABA
- AFME
- APPG
- Asia Pacific Group on Money Laundering
- Atlantic Council
- AUSTRAC
- B20
- BAFIN
- BAFM
- Bank of England
- Basel
- BGC
- BIS
- CBUAE
- CCAF
- CFATF
- Charity Commission
- Chatham House
- City of London Police
- CMA
- Companies House
- Corruption Watch
- Council of Europe
- Council of the EU
- CPS
- CSSF
- DEA
- Department of Business
- DIT
- EBA
- ECB
- EFCC
- EGBA
- Egmont Group
- EPPO
- ESA
- ESAAMLG
- ESMA
- Eurojust
- European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF)
- European Commission
- European Council
- European Parliament
- European Union (EU)
- Europol
- FATF
- FBI
- FCA
- FCDO
- FCO
- Federal Reserve
- Fenergo
- FIAU
- FinCEN
- FINMA
- FINRA
- FINTRAC
- FIU
- FSA / FCA
- FSB
- FSC
- FSMA
- G20
- G7
- GAFILAT
- Gambling Commission
- GCFCC
- GFI
- GI-TOC
- GIABA
- Global Initiative
- Global Integrity
- Global Witness
- GRECO
- GRETA
- HKMA
- HKSFC
- HM Treasury
- HMCPSI
- HMRC
- Home Office
- House of Commons
- House of Lords
- ICAEW
- ICE
- ICIJ
- ICO
- IDB
- IMF
- Insurance Europe
- Interpol
- IOM FSA
- ISO
- J5
- JMLSG
- Law Commission
- Law Society
- MAS
- MENAFATF
- MONEYVAL
- NAO
- NCA
- NECC
- NED
- Nice Actimize
- NYDFS
- OCC
- OCCRP
- OECD
- OFAC
- OFSI
- OPBAS
- OSCE
- Other
- OTSI
- PRA
- project CRAAFT
- PSR
- RBI
- RUSI
- Sayari
- SEBI
- SEC
- SFO
- Spotlight on corruption
- SRA
- Tax Justice Network
- TFG
- TRACE
- Traffic
- Transparency International
- TRNC
- UK Finance
- UK Govt
- UKACC
- UN
- UNODC
- US DEA
- Us DoC
- US DoJ
- US DoS
- US Govt
- US Sec
- US Treasury
- USAID
- VISA
- Wall Street Journal
- WCO
- White House
- Wolfsberg
- World Bank
Jurisdiction
- Jurisdiction
- Afghanistan
- Andorra
- Asia
- Australia
- Austria
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Berlin
- Bermuda
- Botswana
- Brazil
- Bulgaria
- Canada
- Cayman Islands
- China
- Colombia
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Estonia
- EU
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Ghana
- Gibraltar
- Global
- Greece
- Guernsey
- Hong Kong
- India
- Iran
- Ireland
- Isle of Man
- Israel
- Japan
- Jersey
- Kenya
- Lithuania
- Malaysia
- Malta
- Mauritiania
- Mexico
- Middle East
- Monaco
- Myanmar
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Nigeria
- North Korea
- Norway
- Other
- Poland
- Romania
- Russia
- San Marino
- Singapore
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- South Africa
- Spain
- Sudan
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Turkey
- UAE
- UK
- Ukraine
- US
- Venezuela
- Vietnam
Finews: UBS was fined by the EFD for failing to report suspected ML cases related to the former Yemeni president
UBS recorded 5,438 warning notices in connection with its relationships with former president Ali Abdullah Saleh. However, the bank did not forward these warnings to the Money Laundering Reporting Office Switzerland. UBS also failed in the handling large amount of money associated with corrupt practices by Saleh to be withdrawn from state control. Saleh lost power in Yemen in 2012 and was killed by Houthi fighters…
US DoJ announces the extradition of Estonian nationals from Estonia to the US for $575m cryptocurrency fraud and ML scheme
Potapenko and Turogin manipulated victims into purchasing contracts for virtual currency shares, with US Customs and Border Protection aiding in their arrest and facilitating their entry into the US. The US thanks the Cybercrime Bureau of the National Criminal Police of the Estonian Police and border gaurd for its support with the investigation…
Race begins for AMLA Chair: This selection procedure is subject to the publication and entry into force of the EU’s AML/CFT regulation…
The new AMLA Chair will be responsible for: Acting as the head and legal representative of the AMLA, Preparing the Authority’s work, as well as of the Authority’s Executive Board, Managing the Authority, supervising its operations and Being accountable to the European Parliament and to the Council for the implementation of the AMLA Regulation…
MONEYVAL publishes AML/CTF follow-up reports evaluating progress by Republic of Moldova in implementing the FATF recommendations
MONEYVAL addresses Gibraltar has enhanced its preventive framework to combat ML and terrorism financing
The World Bank has debarred Marseille for Engineering & Trading S.A.L. offshore for allegedly offering improper payments
Marseille will be excluded from World Bank-financed operations and projects during the debarment period due to its misconduct and compliance obligations. The company will implement an integrity compliance program and cooperate with World Bank investigators…
FinCEN issues a statement to provide “clarity” to banks on how to apply a risk-based approach to conducting CDD on independent ATM owners or operators in line with the requirements set out in FinCEN’s 2016 CDD Rule
Financial crime risk for independent ATM owners or operators varies based on transaction volume, ATM locations, and fund source. Bank-funded ATMs may pose a low risk due to bank knowledge and ability to identify suspicious activity…
FCA drops criminal investigation into Monzo bank over potential breaches of anti-money laundering rules
UK Monzo bank has been informed that a criminal money laundering investigation by the financial regulator has been halted but civil proceedings against it continue…
MAS issues Environmental Crimes Money Laundering National Risk Assessment
Environmental crimes, including wildlife trafficking and logging generate significant global criminal gains, with Singapore’s high exposure to these crimes due to its international financial center and externally-oriented economy…
BBC: Standard Chartered escaped prosecution for ML carried out billions of dollars of transactions for funders of terrorist groups
Standard Chartered was accused of falsifying Swift transaction data to move billions of dollars through its New York branch on behalf of sanctioned entities like the Central Bank of Iran. The bank has admitted to breaching sanctions against Iran and other countries, paying over $1.7bn in fines, but has not admitted to conducting transactions for terrorist organizations…
ESAs publish joint annual report for 2023
The main areas of cross-sectoral focus were joint risk assessment, sustainable finance, digitalisation, consumer protection, securitisation, financial conglomerates, and central clearing.
FinCEN issues Year in Review for Fiscal Year 2023
The Year in Review is intended to help stakeholders gain insight into the collection and use of Bank Secrecy Act data, including FinCEN’s efforts to support law enforcement and national security agencies.