A global evaluation, steeper penalties and a new agency topped the agenda at this year's The Assembly Canada in Toronto. Find out more in front of the paywall: acams.org/en/news/toronto-re…

U.S. federal banking agencies have overhauled how and when examiners can flag anti-money laundering lapses this year, limiting their issuance of matters requiring attention along with the obligatory upgrades they demand, to "substantive" violations only. acams.org/en/news/regulators…

Turkey has strong rules in place against illicit finance and uses financial intelligence effectively but still has further to go in wrapping up cases against money launderers, recovering criminal assets held abroad and other areas, FATF has found. acams.org/en/news/turkeys-fa… ($)

Three months after seizing a London-based fintech over a range of suspected compliance failures, U.K. regulators have intensified scrutiny of the company by opening an investigation into potential criminal breaches of the U.K. Money Laundering Regulations. acams.org/en/news/uk-regulat…

U.S. officials urged banks & other financial services companies to "be vigilant" for transactions potentially linked to scam compounds in Southeast Asia & related schemes to launder their profits, which now range into the tens of billions of dollars. acams.org/en/news/fincen-shi… ($)

The U.K. Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation has fined Citibank's branch in London £4.7 million for handling nearly £20 million for Russian lenders and other blacklisted parties. acams.org/en/news/russia-san… ($)

ACAMS moneylaundering.com reporter Chelsea Carrick covers the current status of the 13 executives directly or indirectly linked to Jeffrey Epstein's finances. #AML #Epstein #BoA #Deutsche #JPMC #banks Read in front of the paywall: acams.org/en/news/former-eps…

Dutch authorities restrained and seized a record €433 million worth of funds, residences, vehicles and other assets linked to convicted and suspected criminals last year, up from €410 million in 2024. acams.org/en/news/netherland… ($)

National regulators uploaded the names of more than 200 banks & other companies to an EU-wide database last year for egregiously violating rules against illicit finance, the bloc's Anti-Money Laundering Authority disclosed in an annual report. acams.org/en/news/amla-publi… ($)

A federal appeals court in California upheld a ruling Monday blocking the U.S. financial intelligence unit from forcing money services businesses near Southern California's border with Mexico to report cash-based remittances of or exceeding $200. acams.org/en/news/federal-pa… ($)

Global banks and national regulators alike are increasingly leveraging new technologies to modernize their respective campaigns against illicit finance, the head of an influential lobby told @ACAMS_ml_com. acams.org/en/news/wolfsberg-… ($)

The Financial Action Task Force wants nations to help arrest the global fraud epidemic by establishing new or strengthening existing public-private partnerships, or PPPs, for sharing financial intelligence. acams.org/en/news/fatf-urges… ($)

The Financial Action Task Force intends to pull the "strongest levers" at its disposal to push national governments into cracking down on fraud, the intergovernmental group's new president said Wednesday at the start of his two-year term. acams.org/en/news/under-new-… ($)

ACAMS moneylaundering.com reporter Chelsea Carrick sat down with Eric Nevarez and Jason Gamez of IRS-CI to discuss how the agency traced tens of millions of dollars stolen from a military assistance program back to the thief. acams.org/en/news/irs-ci-inv… ($)

In an updated mapping of hundreds of criminal networks, the agency responsible for coordinating cross-border investigations across the EU quantified the number of money laundering-as-a-service providers operating within the bloc. acams.org/en/news/europol-id… ($)

Belgium's financial intelligence unit has thrown weight behind legislation that would ease the closure of "phantom" companies that money launderers use to issue fake invoices. acams.org/en/news/belgium-pl… ($)

U.S. officials blacklisted the Prince Group's "second in command" Tuesday along with 32 other parties allegedly involved in overseeing or financing the Cambodian syndicate's scam compounds and global fraud schemes, or profiting from them. acams.org/en/news/us-officia… ($)

The Financial Action Task Force added two countries to a global "gray list" Friday after both failed to fill key gaps in their defenses against illicit finance. acams.org/en/news/fatf-adds-… ($) Pic by Aurelio Sandoval. creativecommons.org/licenses…

A federal proposal meant to bring consistency to anti-money laundering enforcement across the U.S. could instead create divergent oversight for state-chartered banks, subjecting them to two, potentially disparate sets of supervisory processes. acams.org/en/news/proposal-c… ($)

Irish officials want to boost corporate transparency and facilitate intelligence-sharing on suspected money laundering schemes and other financial crime-related threats between domestic agencies as part of a new national strategy against illicit finance. acams.org/en/news/ireland-un…