In recent weeks, a major South Korean cryptocurrency exchange was fined approximately USD 1.9 million by the national Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) following a detailed supervisory inspection.
A…
Sanctions evasion rarely happens through obvious channels. It hides inside trade flows 4 buried in Letters of Credit, Bills of Lading, commercial invoices, Certificates of Origin, inspection certificates,…
False positives waste time, clog queues, and hide real risk. Clearing them well is a skill: you must be fast, factual, and audit-defensible. This comprehensive guide provides the…
1. What Just Happened - Two Big Signals from the AML World
Global AML auditors are in Canada right now.
Representatives from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF)…
What Happened?
Between early 2023 and early 2025, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) conducted supervisory examinations of several Financial Institutions (FIs) with connections to “persons of interest”…
Over the past couple of years, regulators globally have ramped up enforcement. Several recurring patterns are emerging in the fines being levied — especially around weak onboarding, poor…
