Value of Anti-Money Laundering & Counter-Terrorism Financing

(Updated 2016) Anti–Money Laundering (AML) and Counter Terrorism Funding (CTF) are not the most popular subjects in banking circles. Bankers often find Know Your Customer...

Fighting Money Laundering at the Placement Stage

One key to fighting money laundering is understanding its process and the vulnerabilities in each stage of it. The first stage is Placement. Placement...

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...

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...

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....

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....

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...

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;...

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...

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...

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...