All AML articles – Page 7
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ArticleInflation: A breeding ground for financial crime
Inflation has ripple effects on individuals and businesses, posing a wide variety of threats to the economy. It not only affects a country’s financial stability but also results in increased financial crime rates.
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News BriefCOSO report offers updated fraud risk management program blueprint
A new report from the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission offers a blueprint to organizations for establishing an overall fraud risk management program.
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News BriefSEC reopens comment period on beneficial ownership proposal
The Securities and Exchange Commission reopened the comment period on proposed changes to “modernize” its beneficial ownership rule, including shortening certain filing deadlines.
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News BriefAttorney pleads guilty to aiding sanctioned Russian oligarch
New York attorney Robert Wise faces up to five years in prison after pleading guilty to making payments to maintain U.S. properties secretly owned by sanctioned Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg.
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News BriefFinCEN annual report: How DOJ, IRS use SARs to aid probes
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s year in review for fiscal year 2022 provides details on how other U.S. agencies use information derived from the millions of suspicious activity reports filed each year to support their enforcement efforts.
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News BriefKingdom Trust fined $1.5M over ‘substantially inadequate’ AML controls
South Dakota-based Kingdom Trust Co. agreed to pay a $1.5 million fine to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network for anti-money laundering deficiencies that resulted in violations of the Bank Secrecy Act.
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News BriefTreasury teases revising AML/CFT regulations to address ‘de-risking’
The Treasury Department might propose new regulations for financial institutions aimed at discouraging banks from shutting out large swaths of potential banking customers because of risk concerns.
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News BriefOCC ‘reluctantly’ drops enforcement, fine against former Rabobank CCO
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency dismissed an enforcement action and withdrew a fine against the former chief compliance officer for the now-defunct U.S. branch of Rabobank N.A.
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News BriefTreasury: DeFi services vulnerable to AML/CFT, cybersecurity risks
A new U.S. Treasury report concluded that decentralized finance services are being used by bad actors to launder the proceeds of illegal activity, aided by crypto platforms weak or non-existent in anti-money laundering and sanctions compliance programs.
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News BriefFinCEN mulling beneficial ownership reporting changes amid criticism
The reporting requirements of the beneficial ownership information registry being developed by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network will likely be revised following harsh criticism from lawmakers and businesses.
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News BriefWilliam Hill fined record $23.7M for social responsibility, AML failures
The U.K. Gambling Commission announced three units of British bookmaking service William Hill Group will pay a record fine of £19.2 million (U.S. $23.7 million) for failures regarding social responsibility and anti-money laundering.
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News BriefEx-Binance CCO accused of aiding and abetting CFTC rule violations
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission charged Binance and its founder with operating an illegal digital assets exchange, while former Chief Compliance Officer Samuel Lim faces charges of aiding and abetting the alleged misconduct.
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News BriefEx-OneCoin compliance head charged over alleged fraud role
The former head of legal and compliance at OneCoin was indicted on separate charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering for her role in the $4 billion cryptocurrency fraud scheme.
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News BriefFed details Custodia Bank membership rejection over risk deficiencies
The Federal Reserve Board further expounded on the risk management deficiencies it found at Custodia Bank as part of the digital-first bank’s application to become a member of the Federal Reserve System.
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News BriefReport alleges Block’s Cash App facilitates fraud, disregards AML laws
Investment research firm Hindenburg Research accused financial technology payment company Block of facilitating money laundering, fraud, and scams on its platform.
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News BriefDanske Bank to name audit exec new chief compliance officer
Danske Bank will appoint Chief Audit Executive Dorthe Tolborg to serve as its chief compliance officer after current CCO Satnam Lehal announced he would depart the bank in early 2024.
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WebcastCPE Webcast: Immersive Learning: A Revolutionary Way To Train Your Compliance Team
Get a taste of Compliance Week Training’s new instructor-led courses that provide the experience of a financial crime risk event unfolding in real time. Review scenarios used in the course, which simulates a real-life crisis you need to evaluate and resolve with your peers.
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News BriefEx-Goldman banker sentenced to 10 years for 1MDB fraud role
Former Goldman Sachs Managing Director Roger Ng was sentenced to 10 years in prison for his role in the 1MDB fraud scandal.
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News BriefSEC fines broker-dealer $100K over SARs reporting failures
Cambria Capital agreed to pay $100,000, hire an independent anti-money laundering consultant, and be censured for failing to file suspicious activity reports on certain transactions over a two-year period, according to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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News BriefSouth Africa, Nigeria added to FATF’s AML/CFT watchlist
The Financial Action Task Force placed Nigeria and South Africa on its list of countries requiring increased monitoring because of deficiencies in their regimes to counter money laundering, terrorist financing, and proliferation financing.