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AUSTRAC launches second public consultation on updated AML/CTF rules – with enhanced EDD, expanded reporting, and clearer regulations to boost compliance and risk management – closes 27 June
The revised rules introduce more flexible and comprehensive customer due diligence measures, expanded requirements for transaction and suspicious matter reporting, and clearer guidance to help entities better understand their compliance obligations. These updates aim to address challenges faced by reporting entities, enhance risk management practices, and ensure stronger protections against financial crime…
Switzerland’s MROS 2025 Typology Report flags key ML risks: nostro a/c abuse, virtual assets, shell companies, real estate and art market abuse, and sanctions evasion – urging stronger financial controls
The guidance provides financial intermediaries and merchants with practical tools to better detect suspicious activities. By enhancing detection across the financial sector, MROS strengthens the role of institutions in combating these complex crimes, demonstrating Switzerland’s commitment to international standards and closer public-private cooperation in the fight against money laundering and terrorism financing…
Europol Fraud Report 2024 warns that fraudsters are exploiting public IP data and AI tools to execute a multimillion-euro scam, deceiving rights holders with fake fees and forged documents
In a new situation report, Europol and the EUIPO find a sharp rise in cross-border intellectual property fraud, driven by scammers exploiting publicly accessible IP data and digital tools, including generative AI, to impersonate official bodies and issue fake payment requests…
Eurojust tackled record levels of cross-border crime in 2024, seizing €20bn in drugs, freezing €1bn in assets, and arresting 1,200 suspects
Eurojust’s 2024 Annual Report highlights a significant rise in its operational activity, with nearly 13,000 cross-border crime cases handled—reflecting over a 60% increase in five years—and the launch of the European Judicial Organised Crime Network (EJOCN) to strengthen global partnerships.
AUSTRAC orders AML/CTF audit of Mercedes-Benz Financial Services amid major compliance failures, revealing extensive under-reporting and weak transaction monitoring in non-bank lending sector
This action highlights increasing concerns over potential weaknesses in the automotive finance sector’s AML and counter-terrorism financing controls. The audit will conduct a comprehensive evaluation of Mercedes-Benz Financial Services’ compliance framework to uncover any deficiencies or vulnerabilities that could be exploited for illicit financial activities…
Europol disrupts a major criminal parallel banking network, seizing €4.5m and arresting 17 suspects in crypto-to-cash laundering fueling migrant smuggling and drug trafficking
The criminal network was involved in providing illicit financial services such as illegal hawala banking, cash courier activities, and converting cryptocurrencies into cash, primarily to launder money for migrant smuggling and drug trafficking groups. Investigators revealed that the network facilitated the movement of over €21 million in illicit funds and operated separate branches targeting different criminal communities…
Singapore MAS-backed ACIP unveils practical guidance to streamline source of wealth and funds due diligence
This guidance marks a shift towards a more risk-based and pragmatic approach, particularly benefiting private banking and wealth management sectors, where clients often have complex financial backgrounds. By emphasizing a deeper understanding of clients’ wealth origins and transaction contexts rather than relying on excessive documentation, the framework helps firms meet anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CFT)…
FCA confiscates over £300K from 3 convicted fraudsters, who ran a fraudulent investment scheme, cold-calling victims to invest in a shell company falsely claiming to trade binary options
Between June 2016 and January 2020, the trio cold-called individuals, convincing them to invest in a shell company purportedly trading in binary options. In reality, the funds were misappropriated to finance their personal lifestyles…
US DoJ indicts top leaders of Sinaloa Cartel’s for narco-terrorism and drug trafficking – marking the first action by its new Narco-Terrorism Unit
The indictment targets Pedro Inzunza Noriega and his son as major fentanyl producers and traffickers responsible for some of the largest drug seizures ever recorded…
AUSTRAC expands the Fintel Alliance to strengthen real-time data and intelligence sharing, using innovative tools and fresh approaches to more effectively combat financial crimes
The intention of the Fintel Alliance is to unite government and industry in real-time data sharing and collaboration to detect, disrupt, and prevent serious financial crime through collective intelligence and innovation…
INTERPOL unites African FinCrime experts to promote its Silver Notice and Diffusion tools, strengthening the fight against organised crime linked to fraud, trafficking, and corruption
This initiative seeks to disrupt criminal finances by enhancing the tracking and intelligence-sharing of illicit assets that move across borders, including real estate, vehicles, bank accounts, and businesses linked to criminal activities. It focuses on tackling the increasingly intricate connections between cross-border asset flows and crimes such as scams, illegal logging, terrorism, and corruption. By fostering greater collaboration and information…
HMT’s latest Economic Crime Levy report unveils a powerful £115m annual plan to elevate AML efforts, strengthen investigations, and take a decisive stand against kleptocracy
The Economic Crime Levy aims to raise funds to support government efforts to combat ML and other forms of economic crime. The funds are used to support various initiatives, including strengthening the UK’s anti-money laundering (AML) regime, improving intelligence gathering, and hiring financial crime investigators…
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