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Reuters: Italy’s Police launch a ML probe into third‑tier football club Triestina Calcio, owned by U.S. crypto firm House of Doge, investigating €50M in suspicious funds and alleged accounting fraud
Investigators, led by prosecutors in Trieste, are scrutinising roughly €10 million in public funds and about €40 million transferred through U.S. and Canadian banks between 2022 and 2025, amid concerns that these sizable inflows don’t align with the club’s heavy €60 million debt load, raising red flags for potentially illicit financial flows and accounting irregularities tied to the club’s ownership and operations…
Coindesk: Hong Kong is set to approve stablecoin-issuer licences in Mar 2026 under HKMA’s new regime, boosting oversight and establishing the city as a regulated crypto hub
The move comes as stablecoins, now a roughly $300 billion asset class, are projected to grow into the trillions and are seen by some global banks as key to future digital trade settlement. Authorities are expected to approve only a limited number of issuers initially, despite receiving dozens of applications, as regulators prioritise financial-stability safeguards, full reserve-backing requirements, governance standards, and strong AML/CFT controls…
The Guardian: Trump faces corruption and ethics scrutiny after the UAE invested $500M in his family’s crypto firm days before his 2025 inauguration, raising conflict-of-interest concerns
The deal brokered by a powerful UAE royal and national security adviser has sparked allegations of conflicts of interest, potential violations of the U.S. Constitution’s emoluments clause, and undue foreign influence on U.S. policy, particularly after the Trump administration reversed restrictions to allow the UAE access to advanced AI chips. Critics, including ethics experts and Democratic lawmakers, are calling the arrangement “corruption, plain and simple,” although the White House denies any unethical conduct and Trump’s team…
BBC: German authorities raid Deutsche Bank over a 2013–2018 ML probe, potentially linked to Roman Abramovich, highlighting the bank’s ongoing scrutiny in high-profile financial crime investigations
The probe targets unknown individuals and employees over allegedly late filings of suspicious activity reports, with media reports suggesting a connection to Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich. This adds to the bank’s history of high-profile financial crime investigations, including previous overseas bribery and commodities market manipulation cases…
Financial Times: A sanctioned Iranian banker builds a €400M European property empire, including luxury hotels and a Mallorca golf club, despite sanctions linked to the Revolutionary Guards
An Iranian tycoon under sanctions in the UK for allegedly financing the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has funnelled hundreds of millions of euros into a sprawling property portfolio across mainland Europe…
The Voice: Philippines SEC launches HARBOR, a web-based BO Registry, requiring companies to file from 30 Jan 2026, to streamline reporting, reduce errors, and enhance transparency
Beneficial ownership disclosures are a key transparency reform that supports good governance and helps prevent the misuse of corporate structures for illicit activities,” SEC Chairperson Francis Lim said. He added that HARBOR streamlines filing while strengthening BO data management to support partner agencies in lawful enforcement actions…
Fintech Global: Sinpex secures €10M to scale its AI-powered KYB platform, automating compliance and onboarding across Europe while helping firms cut manual work and stay AML/KYC-ready
It has raised €10 million in a Series A funding round led by BlackFin Capital Partners with support from ACE Ventures and TX Ventures to accelerate product development, expand into key European markets like France and the Netherlands, and strengthen its position as a leading RegTech solution for regulatory compliance…
Yahoo India: India tightens crypto oversight, introducing live biometric KYC, location tracking, enhanced bank verification, and ongoing risk reviews to curb fraud, ML, and the misuse of digital assets
Users must submit a live selfie that uses software detecting physical presence (like eye-blinking or head movement), not just a photo upload. At signup, exchanges must record: Geolocation, IP address, Timestamp & device info. In addition to PAN, users must provide one more government-issued ID (e.g., Aadhaar, passport, voter ID)…
Bloomberg: Spain’s FIU Sepblac fines CaixaBank €30M+ for serious AML failures linked to the 2016 sale of Madrid’s Torre Foster skyscraper – proving old real-estate deals can still bring heavy penalties
Regulators found weaknesses in CDD and failures to flag suspicious activity in what was considered a high-risk real-estate transaction, making the sanction one of the largest ever imposed by the Spanish AML watchdog. CaixaBank has said it is appealing the decision, underscoring how legacy transactions can still carry major regulatory and financial consequences years later…
The Irish Times: Ireland’s High Court upholds a €21.5m Central Bank fine against Coinbase over major AML monitoring failures, setting a tough precedent for crypto firms
The High Court in Ireland has upheld a €21.5 million fine and reprimand against Coinbase Europe Ltd imposed by the Central Bank of Ireland for breaching its AML/CFT transaction-monitoring obligations, after faults in its system left over 30 million transactions worth more than €176 billion unmonitored over about a year, making this a landmark enforcement action in the crypto sector and requiring Coinbase to pay the penalty within seven days of the ruling…
cxfinancia: Cyprus prepares for tougher EU-wide AML oversight as AMLA raises compliance standards, strengthens CySEC supervision, and introduces data-driven scrutiny from 2025
Cyprus is gearing for a major shift in AML supervision under the EU’s new AMLA Regulation, with CySEC already rolling out data-driven reporting, stronger governance expectations, and closer supervisory scrutiny as part of a move toward a single EU AML rulebook, indirect AMLA oversight of national authorities, and potential direct supervision of high-risk cross-border firms…
Reuters: Malaysia’s Anti‑corruption authorities seize 24 M ringgit linked to army procurement graft, as investigations and high‑profile statements shake up the defence sector
Malaysia’s anti-graft agency, the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC), has seized 2.4 million ringgit (about $592,000) in cash linked to an ongoing graft probe into army procurement contracts, confiscating the money when a suspect tried to move it and earlier freezing related bank accounts as part of the investigation…