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2022 Corruption Perceptions Index Released – Things are Still Not Improving

This week Transparency International released its 2022 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI). The CPI uses a number of criteria to evaluate the status...

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What Do a Retired FBI Agent and Real Estate Have in Common?

This week a retired senior FBI agent Charles McGonigal was arrested on charges of money laundering and violating US sanctions. Also this week, the...

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Human Smuggling Along the US Southwest Boarder – A FinCEN Alert

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued an alert focused on human smuggling along the southwest board of the US. John and Elliot...

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Eurasia Group’s Top Risks for 2023

The Eurasia Group, a consultancy focusing on political risk, has published its Top Risks - 2023. John and Elliot look at the purpose of the report...

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US Banking Agencies Increase Their Focus on Crypto-Assets

The primary US bank regulators - the Federal Reserve, FDIC, and OCC - issued a joint statement on crypto-asset risks to banking organizations. The...

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FATF Updates its Guidance on the Real Estate Sector (Archive Edition)

This episode originally aired on July 29, 2022. 

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) recently issued updated Guidance for a Risk-Based Approach to...

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Basel AML Index 2022 – Moving Backward (Archive Edition)

This episode originally aired on October 7, 2022. 

This week, the Basel Institute on Governance published its 2022 AML Index. The index assesses...

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Danske Bank – Why Correspondent Banking Can Be High Risk

The US Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission have announced a resolution of charges against Danske Bank. The Bank pled...

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National Security and Homeland Security

It has been a busy week for US government pronouncements on national security and terrorism. The Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security...

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The Impact of Corruption on Democracy

 The White House has published a Fact Sheet: Summit for Democracy: Progress in the Year of Action. It discusses activities taken since the first...

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FinCEN’s New Advisory on Elder Financial Exploitation (Archive Edition)

This episode originally aired on June 17, 2022. 

FinCEN has issued updated guidance on Elder Financial Exploitation (EFE). The new Advisory looks at...

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New Sanctions on Internet Suppliers of Fentanyl

The US Treasury and its Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) have announced new sanctions against a number of individuals and entities involved in...

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FinCEN Updates its Analysis of Ransomware Trends for Late 2021

The Financial Crime Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has issued its Ransomware Trendsfor the second half of 2021. John and Elliot look at the process...

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Nonprofits Experience Significant Difficulties Transferring Funds for Humanitarian Activities

The Center for Strategic and International Studies has released a report on Mitigating Financial Access Challenges. The report focuses on ways to...

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Homeland Security Launches Operation Boiling Point

Homeland Security Investigations has launched Operation Boiling Point an initiative to curb organized retail crime and cargo theft. The effort brings...

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AML Compliance for Start-ups – Bittrex

This week the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued enforcement actions against...

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Basel AML Index 2022 – Moving Backward

This week, the Basel Institute on Governance published its 2022 AML Index. The index assesses countries’ money laundering and terrorist financing...

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Can I Send a Remittance to Cuba?

The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has issued updated FAQs clarifying the regulations about people in the US sending electronic remittances...

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Another Busy Week in AML

John and Elliot discuss several topics from this week: a recent ProPublica article on human traffickers forcing victims into cyberscamming, recent...

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The Impacts of De-Risking on the Caribbean

The US House Financial Services Committee held a hearing this week on the availability of financial services in the Caribbean region. The hearing...

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Disrupting the Financing of Domestic Terrorism

A recent essay on Lawfare caught John and Elliot’s attention. The authors reviewed the costs and funding sources of the January 6th insurrection and...

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GAO Calls for More Information on How SARs are Used

The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently issued a report to Congress. The report focused on how the US Department of Justice is...

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The Wolfsberg Group Gives Guidance on Requests for Information in AML Transaction Monitoring

The Wolfsberg Group, an association of 13 global banks, this week issued a guidance document on requests for information (RFI). The focus of the...

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Federal Reserve Issues Guidance on Crypto Activities

The Federal Reserve has issued additional information for banking organizations about crypto-asset-related activities. It is contained in Supervisory...

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Fraud Schemes Just Keep Coming.

The US Department of Justice has announced that a federal grand jury has indicted representatives of Electronic Transactions Systems Corporation, a...

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