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BREAKING: UK regulator cracks down on illicit London crypto ATMs

QUESTION: Is this the most famous cat in AFC? Feline financial crime expert takes centre stage at WiFC

EXCLUSIVE: Mounties Commissioner Brenda Lucki on the ever changing challenges facing law enforcement in the new age of global finance

#IWD2023: Women in Financial Crime; and why we must now operate in the age of continuous approach to KYC enabled by widely available tools

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Ukrainian court ‘arrests’ majority owner’s shares in Ferrexpo

INSIGHT: ‘Minding the minders’ – inside the meticulous work of US Congress’ special office tackling money laundering and fraud

INSIGHT: Read the inspiring address by global FIU chief Ela Franków-Jaśkiewicz to the AML Intelligence ‘Women in FinCrime’ Summit

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NEWS: Embassy staff at ‘Five Eyes’ western intelligence network discouraged from using Revolut over alleged Russia connection, claims UK media report

NEWS: Ransomware gang that took in €10Ms from 37 cyber attacks, including crippling Dusseldorf hospital, is smashed

NEWS: US senators say Binance purposely evaded regulators and moved assets for criminals and sanctions evaders

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INSIGHT: Incredible story of how notorious Russian warlord passes UK money laundering checks

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Four Swiss bankers charged with hiding millions for Vladimir Putin

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Memorandum of Understanding between OFAC and the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs
OFAC
May 16, 2025
The Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has published its Memorandum of Understanding with Switzerland's State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO).
Crime group used light aircraft to smuggle cocaine haul to UK
National Crime Agency
May 16, 2025
A qualified pilot used his light aircraft in a bid to smuggle cocaine into the UK. Pilot Anastasios Balian, 52, and accomplice Errol McCardo Weir, 48, admitted trying to bring 30kg of the Class A drug into the country, following a National Crime Agency investigation. On 20 March this year, they were stopped by Border Force officers at North Weald airfield in Epping, Essex, after landing from Belgium via Calais. Officers searched the small plane and discovered a concealment had been built into the rear seats. Inside it were 30 1kg blocks of cocaine with a street value of about £2.4m.
£2m fine for online operator Spreadex Limited
Gambling Commission
May 16, 2025
A gambling business will pay a £2,022,000 penalty after a Gambling Commission investigation revealed Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and social responsibility failings.
Spreadex Limited – which operates from Spreadex.com – will also have to undergo a third-party audit to ensure it is effectively implementing its anti-money laundering and safer gambling policies, procedures and controls. The failures were revealed during a compliance assessment in July 2023 and relate to the operator’s Gambling Commission licence to offer casino and fixed odds betting.