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White House issues notice on the continuation of the national emergency with respect to Hong Kong
The situation with respect to Hong Kong, including recent actions taken by the People’s Republic of China to fundamentally undermine Hong Kong’s autonomy, continues to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy…
FCA continues crackdown on unregistered crypto ATMs in the UK
Since the start of 2023, the FCA has visited and inspected 34 locations across the UK suspected of hosting crypto ATMs.
FINRA fines Merrill Lynch $6m for longstanding AML program failures
Merrill Lynch failed to apply the correct threshold to report suspicious activities for more than 10 years and, as a result, failed to file nearly 1,500 Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs).
EBA issues competent authorities approaches to the supervision of banks with respect to AML/CTF (Round 3)
Each review focussed on how competent authorities assess the ML/TF risks associated with banks under their supervision, and on how competent authorities are using these risk assessments to inform their supervisory practices. It also examined the steps prudential…
HM Treasury issues Policy Paper ‘Building a Smarter Financial Services Regulatory Framework for the UK: Plan for Delivery’
This plan sets out how the government is delivering a Smarter Regulatory Framework for the UK by replacing retained EU law on financial services. It also reports that HMT is commencing the repeal of statutory restrictions which prevent the UK’s financial services regulators…
GABAC publishes Mutual Evaluation of Chad
Identifies numerous ML/TF weaknesses, with threats stemming from aggravated robbery, cattle rustling, corruption, embezzlement of public funds, breach of trust, fraud, forgery, counterfeiting, drug trafficking, arms trafficking, human trafficking, illegal exploitation…
Guernsey regulator updates AML/CFT handbook
The update also adds the requirement to establish an independent audit compliance function, and includes provisions for the transparency and beneficial ownership of legal arrangements, such as trusts and limited partnerships with no legal personality…
FCA to review how banks treat politically exposed persons (PEPs)
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt was refused a bank account with Monzo last year, which the chancellor said was an example of the “barriers” faced by people wanting to work in public life. He said he believed he was denied the account before he became chancellor because he was a PEP…
EU Civil Liberties Committee adopts a draft negotiating mandate on violating and circumventing EU sanctions
The law would ensure that EU sanctions are enforced uniformly across member states, with common definitions and dissuasive penalties.
OECD launches new report: Tax Transparency in Africa 2023
Presents African countries’ latest advances in tackling the major issue of tax evasion and other illicit financial flows (IFFs) through transparency and exchange of information (EOI) for tax purposes.
UK Finance requests answers to question on new UK restrictions on legal advisory services
UK Finance have collated a list of questions about the new restrictions on legal advisory services in Regulation 54D (previous post) of the Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2023, which has now been sent to the relevant government departments…
EU sanctions: new law to crack down on violations
According to the proposal, violating and circumventing the sanctions should be punishable criminal offences carrying prison sentences of a maximum of five years and fines of up to ten million euro. When companies violate or circumvent sanctions, they should be excluded from public tenders.