With U.S. efforts to combat illicit fentanyl and drug smuggling at their southern border in full swing, yet another decisive blow was recently swung by a prominent American regulator to better protect the interests of the American public through improved financial awareness. Last week, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) […]
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In a surprising turn of events, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced its decision to lift long-standing financial sanctions on Tornado Cash, a notorious cryptocurrency mixing service that anonymizes transactions on the Ethereum blockchain. The decision, announced on March 21, 2025, marks a significant shift in the regulatory landscape for privacy-focused […]
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Last week, the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol) released its annual Serious and Organised Crime Threat Assessment (SOCTA) which highlighted the evolving nature of organized criminal threats that are sweeping Europe and other major countries, including the United States. The analysis by Europol – the EU’s official law enforcement collective that supports its 27 Member […]
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