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FINTRAC’s 2024–25 Annual report highlights record financial intelligence disclosures, major drug and crime seizures, risk-based regulatory actions, and cutting-edge AI and global collaboration to combat FC

October 30, 2025

FINTRAC’s Annual Report 2024 – 25: Safe Canadians, Secure Economy details the agency’s expanded contribution to federal efforts targeting the illicit-opioid crisis, including over 100 actionable law-enforcement disclosures between November 2024 and March 2025 related to illicit-opioid networks. The report also underscores the centre’s broader operational impact in supporting investigations into money-laundering…

SRA’s 2024–25 AML Annual Report exposes widespread weaknesses in law firms’ risk assessments and AML controls, calling for urgent, risk-based action and stronger oversight

October 30, 2025

The report indicates a marked increase in supervisory interventions—covering inspections, file reviews and enforcement actions—as the SRA addresses persistent weaknesses in firm-wide risk assessments, client and matter-level risk evaluations, source-of-funds checks and sanctions compliance. It further emphasises emerging threats in conveyancing, technology risk (including AI) and supply-chain complexity, underscoring the need for firms to evolve controls proportionately as regulatory expectations rise…

GFI’s 2025 report Shadow Figures: Transnational Crime, estimates US$16 trillion in annual illicit flows mainly from cybercrime, revealing data gaps, impacts on developing countries, and need for urgent global action

October 28, 2025

The report estimates that revenues from ten major transnational crimes including drug trafficking, counterfeiting, human trafficking, illegal logging and mining, illegal fishing, wildlife trafficking, small arms trafficking, oil theft, cultural‑property trafficking, and especially cyber‑crime, range between US$ 12.30 trillion and US$ 16.21 trillion annually…

Europol’s paper on Caller-ID spoofing warns of escalating fraud risks, outlines challenges for law enforcement, and urges swift technical, regulatory, and cross-border actions to protect citizens

October 27, 2025

This position paper highlights that spoofed calls and messages enable large-scale social-engineering and payment fraud, resulting in hundreds of millions of euros in annual losses across Europe. Europol calls for harmonised technical standards, enhanced cooperation among telecom providers and regulators, and updated legislation to curb abuse and improve investigative capabilities…

FATF’s Oct 2025 Plenary removes Burkina Faso, Mozambique, Nigeria, and South Africa from its grey list, adopts new asset recovery guidance, and approves a horizon scan on AI and deepfake risks

October 27, 2025

The Plenary approved comprehensive new guidance on asset recovery, that will help countries build effective frameworks to close loopholes and recover proceeds of crime, including across borders – critical to reducing and disrupting money laundering and ultimately making crime unprofitable. It also approved a new Horizon Scan, to notify public and private sectors around the world about current and potential future illicit finance risks presented by AI and deepfakes…

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October 27, 2025

Dubai FSA issues Consultation paper proposing major updates to its crypto-token framework, shifting suitability checks to firms and removing fund investment caps – feedback due by 31 Oct 25

October 25, 2025

The consultation paper proposes to shift from a regulator-recognised list of crypto-tokens to a model where firms must assess and document the suitability of tokens themselves – excluding fiat stablecoins, which remain subject to explicit DFSA approval. It also introduces monthly reporting obligations, removes certain jurisdictional barriers, relaxes fund-investor thresholds, and updates custody/disclosure rules to align with evolving…

TI-UK’s paper Improving the UK’s Trust Registration Service urges expanding the TRS’s scope and data access to expose hidden ownership in UK property and close loopholes enabling ML through opaque trusts

October 25, 2025

The report highlights that the Trust Registration Service (TRS) under HM Revenue & Customs remains ineffective in tackling hidden ownership in UK property via trusts, citing examples of at least £2.5 billion held through trust structures. It recommends reforms to broaden registration (including trusts acquiring property before October 2020 and overseas trusts holding UK assets) and to allow more meaningful public access to TRS data, in line with the Sixth Anti‑Money Laundering Directive standard…

UN’s new Cybercrime Convention, signed by 72 countries in Hanoi, sets the first global framework to combat cyber-enabled fraud and ML through stronger cooperation and evidence-sharing

October 25, 2025

This milestone treaty—opened for signature in Hanoi on 25 October 2025—establishes, for the first time, comprehensive global standards that criminalise cyber-dependent offences (such as online fraud, child sexual exploitation and non-consensual image dissemination) and facilitates rapid cross-border cooperation, including a dedicated 24/7 network. It will enter into force once 40 countries ratify it, thereby empowering all States—especially developing countries—to enhance their technical capacity and collective response to cybercrime…

Egmont Group’s report The Role of FIUs in Fighting Environmental Crimes calls on FIUs to enhance analytical tools, cross-border collaboration, and sectoral awareness to track illicit financial flows

October 25, 2025

The report outlines how FIUs face significant hurdles—including limited awareness, resources, and cooperation—in detecting and analysing money flows tied to environmental offences such as illegal logging, wildlife trade, fishing and mining. It recommends that FIUs integrate environmental crime into national risk assessments, share intelligence widely (domestically and internationally), treat such offences…

UK Govt’s guidance Supply chain resilience against ransomware outlines steps for organisations to tighten supplier oversight, boost cybersecurity, and adopt a four-step plan to strengthen defences 

October 24, 2025

The UK, in collaboration with Counter‑Ransomware Initiative members and Singapore, launches new international guidance designed to help organisations identify vulnerabilities in supply-chain networks and stop cyber criminals before they exploit them. With endorsement from 67 CRI member states and in view of rising incidents — including a 2024 attack on a key NHS supplier in the UK — the initiative underscores the importance of coordinated global action to protect critical services and networks…

EBA launches a consultation on its Revised Guidelines on SREP and Supervisory Stress Testing, aiming to modernise and harmonise EU supervision – feedback due 26 Jan 2026

October 24, 2025

The proposed revisions aim to align supervisory practices with recent regulatory developments, including CRD VI/CRR III and DORA, while integrating nearly a decade of supervisory experience. Key updates strengthen proportionality, reinforce the ongoing nature of SREP, enhance links between risk assessments and supervisory measures, and integrate stress testing more closely into the process. The revised guidelines are expected to take effect from 1 Jan 2027….

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