New Rules, Old Goods
This week, the OCCRP reported that an “owner of a swanky Manhattan art gallery, who sold ancient...
A New Regime
This week, from the U.S sanctions against SUEX OTC, the first time the Treasury Department has...
A Universal Downgrade
This week, the Basel Institute on Governance published the 10th annual edition of the Basel AML...
Never Again.
Today, we mark the 20th anniversary of September 11th, 2001. With 33.2% of the world’s population...
KYI - Know Your Influencer
Last month, the Council on Foreign Relations reported that an arrest warrant issued by U.S. law...
Where Do We Go From Here?
This week, with the world’s eyes on Kabul, the Group of 7 announced that they agreed on a plan to...
Canary in the [Gold] Mine
This week, Monzo, an early fintech unicorn, disclosed in its annual report that it is facing a...
The Bulgarian Banksy
Last month, the U.S. State Department and U.S. The Treasury Department sanctioned Vassil Bojkov, a...
It’s Not Me, It’s €.U
This month, the European Union revealed its plan to set up a new agency, the Anti-Money Laundering...
The World [Is Not Enough]
Every day, millions of articles are published to the Internet across multiple platforms, languages...
The Financial Action [Tech] Force
Last week, following its latest plenary, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the global AML...
Trade-Based Money Laundering
One might imagine the surprise a Customs Official has when viewing an invoice for toilet paper...
What Is an AML Analyst?
An alert in a bank’s transaction monitoring system notifies that there is a large amount of money...
A Digital Goldmine!
This week, the European Central Bank, in its push for supervisory technology, stated that “national...
Level 1 vs Level 2 Investigations
“Two heads are better than one”, as the old saying goes. However, in anti-money laundering and risk...
The Culture War
This week, the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS) released a report...
The Man Behind the Curtain
This week, the WSJ rightly highlighted that the biggest impediment to the U.S. Treasury’s plans to...
Adopting a Perpetual KYC Approach
During a recent industry workshop, several leading institutions, including Goldman Sachs, HSBC and...
Survey Says
Last month, David Lewis, the executive secretary of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), called...
From "Trade War" to "Tech War" and Back Again
Last week, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced it added 7 Chinese companies in the...
5 Years Ago...
This week, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) marked the 5th...
