Identity verification firm ID-Pal has signed a deal with Ireland’s Department of Justice to streamline the country’s online visa renewal process.
The department will use ID-Pal’s AI-driven technology to verify identities instantly, aligning with AML and data protection regulations.
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Adoption of the revised EBA guidelines on money laundering and terrorist financing risk factors
CSSF
These amending Guidelines complement the Guidelines on ML/TF risk factors by addressing the specific risks associated with crypto-assets and crypto-asset service providers (“CASPs”) and by providing for measures that CASPs and other credit and financial institutions should take to manage these risks.
Nearly a quarter of young adults admit to bank loan fraud – Cifas research
CIFAS
Latest research underpins consumer ‘acceptance’ of first party fraud
12% of adults say they or someone they know have deceived their bank
Warning that fraud rules may unintentionally encourage more dishonest claims
Around 1 in 4 (24%) 25-34-year-olds have either lied to their bank or know someone who has in the last 12 months, claiming a loan has been fraudulently applied for so they avoid repayments. That’s according to the latest Fraud Behaviours Survey findings from UK-leading fraud prevention service, Cifas.
Croatia: EPPO conducts investigative measures in probe into abuse of position and authority at Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs
European Public Prosecutor's Office
(Luxembourg, 8 April 2025) – The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Zagreb (Croatia) and the Office for the Suppression of Corruption and Organised Crime (USKOK) are jointly carrying out urgent evidence collecting activities today, in an investigation into possible illegal use of funds at the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs.