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Tax Crimes, Fraud Account For 51% Of Nigeria’s Financial Crime Reports

The most recent news from Nigeria and across the world is available at The News Chronicle. The News Chronicle provides the most recent headlines, commentary, and political news. Ta...

Asset management and alternative firms’ financial crime controls: FCA publishes findings

On 22 July 2026, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) issued its findings following its earlier engagement with asset management and alternative firms (together firms) regarding t...

Are social platforms becoming the new frontiers of financial crime?

A recent social media post prompted me to reflect on a growing but often overlooked financial crime. The post sought Riyal Omani (RO) in exchange for another country’s currency, pr...

Government publishes call for evidence in relation to unauthorised fraud in the UK

On 15 July 2026, the government published a call for evidence in relation to unauthorised fraud in the UK. Background The government sets out that unauthorised fraud refers to frau...

Anti-Money Laundering in the Age of Digital Finance (Hytham Ahmad)

In today's world of digital finance and global money transfers, the fight against financial crime ha...

New Notice in a Nutshell briefing: FCA fines individuals over £100,000 for insider dealing

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) recently confirmed that over 75% of its enforcement work focuses on fighting financial crime. In line with this, earlier this year the FCA iss...

When fraud controls start working against you (Ben O'Brien)

UK Finance data puts total payment fraud losses at £1.28bn, up 4% year on year, with APP fraud alone...

What happens when crime is no longer paying for our real estate?

The property sector’s money laundering restrictions have finally arrived, and it may be adding to the real estate slump.

Payment fraud a ‘fully fledged’ transnational security threat, says think tank

Authorised payment fraud has moved way beyond being a consumer protection issue, says the Royal United Services Institute

Two women charged over alleged $5m property fraud scheme

The Serious Fraud Office alleges a criminal syndicate used stolen identities and forged documents to obtain mortgages against properties without the owners’ knowledge.

Beyond the Checklist: The Regulatory Shift Toward Real Effectiveness in Financial Crime Compliance (Luis Pinedo)

For years, anti-money laundering (AML) discussions have focused on a simple question: Do financial i...

The Crime and Policing Act 2026: Considerations and practical steps for regulated entities

Companies can now be prosecuted under UK law for any criminal offence committed by one of their senior managers provided the manager was acting with the scope of their authority (a...

The False Economy of More Alerts

When it comes to financial crime compliance, there is a dangerous temptation to treat volume as a s...

When credit portfolios stop behaving as they should: the true cost of fraud contamination (Ben O'Brien)

A sizeable share of what gets written off as credit loss across UK lending portfolios isn't credit l...

IRS-CI probes illegal sports gambling

The Internal Revenue Service's Criminal Investigation unit has been stepping up its enforcement efforts targeting financial crimes tied to illegal gambling.

FIA launches dedicated Cryptocurrency Unit to tackle digital financial crimes

FinCEN Alert: BSA Compliance Implications Related to the Mexican Cartel’s Fiscal Fuel Scheme

The False Economy of More Alerts (Sanjar Mavlyanov)

When it comes to financial crime compliance, there is a dangerous temptation to treat volume as a s...

From policy to practice - the case for shared responsibility in tackling fraud

The responsibility for tackling fraud has long fallen disproportionately on financial institutions, ...

Fraud Without Borders: Key Takeaways from the DOJ’s New Enforcement Memorandum

Overview On August 13, 2026, Colin M. McDonald, Assistant Attorney General of the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) National Fraud Enforcement Division (the Fraud Division or the...

Canada’s Proposed Financial Crimes Agency: It’s About Time!

I have a vivid memory of being told I was callous for suggesting that an individual who was drafting a Statement of Claim to recover lost funds should instead report their losses t...

FinCEN Asks Banks to Step Up Efforts at Detecting Student Aid Fraud

The Agentic Frontier: How AI agents are reshaping AML and KYC and why data quality Is everything (Stephen Platt)

The fight against financial crime has always been a race. Criminals innovate, and compliance teams r...

How a drugs trafficking probe unravelled a £300,000 insurance fraud

This £300,000 travel fraud was not caught by an insurer's claims team - it surfaced through an NCA drugs investigation, and that is precisely the problem IFED has been trying to ad...