Social Media Ideas for Financial Crime

FinCEN’s $13 Billion Scam Center Alert: What Banks Need to Know About the Fastest-Growing Financial Crime Threat

Fact or Fiction: Redrawing the Financial Crime Battlefield

4/5 of your processes won’t make it to 2030. With the ever-changing threats presented by technology, fighting financial crime is becoming increasingly complex. Join Tertia Barrett...

To Beat Financial Crime, Banks Need to Start Doing the Time

By Sean Vickers, Global Head of CLM, Delta Capita. When it comes to having the resources to fight financial crime – have banks ever had it so good? Think about it, not only has tec...

Police tighten net on financial crime

Brandon JosphatPOLITICAL EDITORPOLICE have intensified financial crime investigations through specialised training and inter-agency intelligence sharing.The move comes as the polic...

Billions in AML Fines: Bad Intentions, Bad Systems or Impossible Expectations? (Joris Lochy)

2026 is turning into another expensive year for financial institutions when it comes to Anti-Money

The crime and the cartel: A look at the current financial system and what’s wrong with it

Manchester City is currently facing the reckoning of a century. A grand total of 114 regulatory charges — a staggering rap sheet of alleged financial fraud, falsified sponsorship c...

Why financial crime investigations need to move faster

Retired Secret Service executive Daniel Kurz explains how connected criminal networks, real-time payments and fragmented data are forcing agencies to rethink how they investigate f...

Bank of Thailand Tightens Measures Against Financial Crime

The Bank of Thailand and financial firms are stepping up efforts to prevent the financial system from being used for illegal activities. The initiative will strengthen how institut...

A7 Exposé Highlights FinCrime Expertise Gaps in Product Due Diligence

Reporting by the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal and Reuters has exposed the scale of A7, the Russia-linked sanctions-evasion network that allegedly moved $6.9 billion through...

Six Charged Over Alleged HK$20M Cyberport Scheme Fraud

Hong Kong’s Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) has charged six people over alleged bribery and fraud involving technology subsidies administered by Cyberport. Accordi...

From Periodic Reviews to Living Risk: The Future of Financial Crime Compliance (Tom Devlin)

Periodic reviews have become one of financial crime compliance’s most familiar rituals. A customer i...

FCA multi-firm review on money mules

On 23 September 2026, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published its findings following a multi-firm review into money mule activity. Background The FCA’s findings are based o...

Malone Lam Convicted Of Masterminding $245 Million Crypto Crime Ring

Malone Lam convicted of operating a massive cryptocurrency crime ring that used social engineering and sophisticated money laundering to steal $245 million

The other Post Office scandal: how organised crime launders money on the high street – podcast

Hundreds of millions of pounds of dirty money are being deposited at post offices every year. So why are the police reluctant to investigate the scale of the problem?By Oliver Bull...

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...

Fraudscape 2026: Six fraud trends that deserve closer attention (Ben O'Brien)

Cifas recorded 220,041 fraud-risk cases in the first half of 2026, just 1% up on the same period las...

ACAMS and Chainalysis expand crypto crime training as scam losses hit $17B

ACAMS and Chainalysis have expanded their crypto financial crime training program after Chainalysis estimated that scams and fraud stole $17 billion in cryptocurrency during 2025....

Fraud in Switzerland nearly doubled between 2022 and 2025

Crime has risen in Switzerland since 2022, led by a sharp increase in fraud, according to the Crime Survey 2025 by the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) and the Universi...

New Central Data-Sharing Unit Takes Aim at Fraud

Fraudsters rarely operate within the boundaries of a single agency or jurisdiction, but the information needed to stop them often does. The new National Fraud Enforcement Division...

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

Ireland ‘unable to freeze criminal assets’ due to failure to take part in international initiatives

National Economic Crime and Corruption Strategy says Ireland 'must enhance' its laws on confiscating proceeds of crime in cases involving a criminal conviction

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

FinCEN Targets $17.5 Billion in Suspected Health Care Fraud

On September 9, 2026, the U.S. Department of the Treasury announced that its Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) has identified approximately $17.5 billion in suspiciou...

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...