1. The Enforcement Story - What Really Happened
A virtual asset trading platform recently pled guilty in federal court to criminal charges that include conspiring to violate the…
What’s New
The UK Treasury has announced plans to move the anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorist finance (CTF) supervision of around 60,000 professional services firms (law firms, accountants)…
1. The Update
On 27 October 2025, HM Treasury (UK) released a revised Money Laundering Advisory Notice instructing all firms to apply Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) whenever a…
Sanctions risk today isn’t about who your customer is …it’s about who your customer deals with. Secondary sanctions are now one of the biggest blind spots for AML teams.…
In late 2025, regulators revealed that a bank had uncovered multi-year suspicious activity at a single retail branch and what followed was extraordinary.
A localised incident triggered a…
1. What’s New - The Update
On 24 October 2025, FATF published its latest update to the lists of jurisdictions with AML/CFT/CPF deficiencies.
Four jurisdictions - Burkina Faso,…
