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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

FinCEN ties $13B in crypto scams to non-US operations

The agency reported that “transnational criminal organizations” based in compounds in Southeast Asia were largely behind digital asset scams targeting US residents.An analysis from...

Post Offices being used by Russian gang kingpins to launder their dirty cash

Ministers were told Post Offices are a ‘big problem’ in tackling money laundering (Picture: Getty Images) Five-hundred fraud-busters are to be hired in a £500million crackdown o...

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...

FinCEN flags $12.7B tied to Southeast Asia crypto investment scams

The U.S. Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network has linked approximately $12.7 billion in suspicious financial activity to digital asset investment scams largely run from...

Thai police arrest Chinese suspect tied to alleged $75M crime network in Bangkok

The arrest highlights the need for international cooperation in tackling transnational crime and may prompt stricter financial regulations globally. The post Thai police arrest Chi...

Bank of America hit with £1.2bn fine after money laundering probe

Bank of America has been fined £1.2bn for its failings related to anti-money laundering

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...

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...

UK asks banks for feelgood stories about keeping out dirty money

City firms tapped for case studies to try to convince global watchdog that London has cleaned up its actThe government is asking bankers and lawyers to provide feelgood stories abo...

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