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“Strings Attached” – A Jim Simons Financial Crime Thriller by John Cusack

Book 6 in the Jim Simons Series of Financial Crime Thrillers is now available – “Strings Attached“. When a Latvian anti-money laundering officer sends a…

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“Rhino Gold” – A Jim Simons Financial Crime Thriller by John Cusack

Book 5 in the Jim Simons Series – “Rhino Gold” is now available, A dead rhino. Dirty gold. A financial system where the truth is…

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9/17 – A Jim Simons Thriller by John Cusack

This is Book 2 in the Jim Simons Thriller series, published first and set in 2001. For Book 1 “Payback” set in 1991 see HERE….

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UK National ML/TF Risk Assessment – Summary, Commentary & Dashboard by FCN

The UK ML/TF National Risk Assessment 2025 dropped last week and is a welcome update on those reported in 2015, 2017 and 2020. The NRA runs…

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FATF Report – Comprehensive Update on Terror Finance Risks – Summary and Dashboard by FCN

The FATF published a 134 page Report on TF risks which follows its previous comprehensive TF update in 2015.  FCN have published a 2 page…

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FATF R16 From the Travel Rule to Payment Transparency – Recent Changes – Assessment by FCN

The FATF published updated payment transparency standards following their approval in June 2025, after a few years of consultation. The hard work to reach agreement has to…

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Latvia Financial Crime Summary & Dashboard by FCN – 2025

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…

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Financial Crime Dashboard for Singapore by FCN

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…

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UAE National ML/TF Risk Assessment 2024

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….

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Improving Country Money Laundering Risk Assessments

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. …

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