Category: AML Surveillance

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Navigating Your Way through the Beneficial Ownership Maze

Current events have brought to the spotlight the implications of having limited or minimal information on beneficial owners of an account. The leak this week of more than 11 million records from the Panamanian law firm, Mossack Fonseca, has led to a global uproar that prompted Iceland’s prime minister to step aside. An international consortium […]

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Trending: FinCEN Highlights Novel U.S. Tax Evasion Efforts through Shell Companies

As inflation rates continue to wreak havoc on the bottom-lines of the middle and lower class across the United States, American citizens are seeing their dollar count for arguably less than ever

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U.S. Continues Crackdown on Crypto Mixers in New Criminal Proceedings

One story dominated international headlines this week, as two key cogs in the multinational underground operation that is Tornado Cash have been charged with laundering over $1 billion

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Record Enforcement Actions Expected Following Treasury’s Whistleblower Revamp

Over the past decade, the United States has made significant strides in upping the ante against both domestic and international money laundering

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Trending: Global AML-Related Fines Surged by 50% in 2022

The penalties issued against both domestic and international financial service providers for lapses in their money laundering defenses rose

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Trending: Laundering Through Luxury Goods Reaches All-Time High

Purchases of flashy luxury items such as foreign cars, fine jewelry, yachts, and private jets are often high on the agenda for those wealthy enough to afford them

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U.S. Anti-Illicit Drug Crusade Shifts Focus to Fentanyl, Traffickers

As part of its ongoing battle to limit the proliferation of money laundering efforts and activities that contribute to the funding of terror operations at the respective regional and international levels

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Online Gambling Boom Creates New AML Risks

The exponential rise of the online gambling sector in the United States and abroad is creating new opportunities for criminals, as well as

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Wells Fargo: Big Bank Arrogance vs. Evolving Compliance Standards

Choosing against performing proper due diligence with respect to regulatory standards can cost you as a financial institution, and one American bank is learning this

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Trending: SEC, CFTC Crack Down on Wall Street’s Big Banks

Several major Wall Street firms were forced to pay the price to the collective tune of $1.8 billion this past week over “longstanding record-keeping

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