Australian Federal Police (AFP) Establishes a New Crypto AML Unit
The Australian Federal Police has set up a new cryptocurrency unit to target money laundering as more criminals seek to bypass the financial system...
The 5 Most Common Crypto Scams and How to Avoid Them
The DeFi revolution presents new risks and challenges for innovators, regulators, cybersecurity experts and early adopters of the powerful technology. These are the top...
Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing processes
Money laundering and terrorism funding both have devastating effects. While acts of terrorism are more noticed because of their highly public nature, Money laundering...
New UK Crypto Rules for Sanctions
UK Treasury’s Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation updated its sanctions guidance on 30 August to explicitly include “cryptoassets” among those that must be frozen...
Societal Costs of Money Laundering
Money laundering is a crime that many people consider irrelevant to them. If a problem at all, they consider it a problem only for...
What are Financial Crimes? From Fraud to Terrorism
“Financial Crimes” is a term used to describe a variety of criminal acts including money laundering; terrorism financing; bribery; corruption; sanctions violations; proliferation financing;...
Understanding Know Your Customer & Customer Due Diligence
Anti–Money Laundering (AML) and Counter Terrorist Funding (CTF) efforts involve the little-known world of Know Your Customer (KYC) and Customer Due Diligence (CDD) regulations....
Why Financial Crime and Cybersecurity Need to Team up
The worlds of financial crime and cybercrime are colliding, converging into one. The biggest threat to businesses globally is the new cyber-enabled financial crime....
Tracing Private Cryptocurrencies
Many believe total anonymity is possible using privacy enhanced cryptocurrencies. It might not always be the case.
Are popular cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum private?
Absolutely...
Fighting Money Laundering at the Layering Stage
One key to fighting money laundering is understanding its process and the vulnerabilities in each stage of it. In the first stage, the Placement...
Bank of Canada: Bitcoin Only Use for “Illicit Transactions”
In a speech delivered on February 10th, Bank of Canada's Deputy Governor Timothy Lane addressed the concept of a central bank digital currency (CBDC)...
