1. Introduction Today Financial Crime News is publishing a Financial Crime Dashboard (see Annex 1) for Latvia and a summary of the progress made, a…

Today Financial Crime News is publishing an updated Financial Crime Dashboard on Singapore after spending a few weeks meeting many financial crime leaders in the…

The UAE ML/TF Risk Assessment 2024 dropped last week and it’s a very big improvement on those prior NRA extracts reported in 2019 and 2021….

Scams made the front cover of the Economist’s Feb 8, 2025 edition titled “Scam Inc”. It claims, “every year US$500bn is stolen in online scams”…

AML and Sanctions related Major fines (exceeding US$10 million) reached US$45.679 billion for the 21st Century (2000 – end 2024). 85 AML related fines generated…

The evolution of AML supervision to achieve  greater effectiveness is an important element in the improvement in effectiveness of the AML regime overall. Whilst effectiveness…

Bank of America (BoA) has been slapped with a Cease and Desist Order by the OCC requiring that it must do better and quickly. BoA…

Country AML Risk Assessments are the foundation for the risk based approach. Whilst many countries have improved in their latest published reported, improvements are still needed. …

Punishing Putin by Stephanie Baker is well worth a read and is a well documented reminder of what the last 2 and half years of…

TD is the 2nd largest Bank in Canada, the 6th largest in North America and 10th largest in the USA, with globally 28 million customers,…