The banking and financial services sectors have been “enormous partners” throughout the information sharing effort to combat Russian sanctions evasion according to the US justice department’s director of Task Force KleptoKapture, Andrew Adams. Now, he says, the department wants to… Read More ›
The Wolfsberg Group has published a guidance paper on requests for information (RFIs) as used in anti-money laundering and counter financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) transaction monitoring processes. The guidance is focused primarily on inquiries initiated as a result of transaction monitoring,… Read More ›
J P Morgan has entered into a global strategic alliance with California-based artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) platform Cleareye.ai to digitise trade finance due diligence processing. The alliance aims to identify trade-based money laundering (TBML) and sanctions red… Read More ›
We need to be able to see deep inside supply chains to know whether criminals are using trade finance to launder money says head of trade and supply-chain finance at the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Steven Beck. Replacing paper trails… Read More ›
Sanctions against Russia are here to stay for the foreseeable future, even if a ceasefire agreement were to be reached in the Ukraine war, according to global head of maritime trade technologies & ESG at Pole Star, Simon Ring. In… Read More ›
Illicit asset recovery is set to play a more significant role in global efforts to deprive criminals of their ill-gotten gains with the announcement of a joint initiative launched by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and INTERPOL to recover… Read More ›
Cash intensive local businesses are used to funnel proceeds of extortion into apparently legitimate business bank accounts according to a new report published by Global Financial Integrity (GFI). Proceeds of extortion have also been used by criminals to purchase businesses… Read More ›
Nearly a decade after the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) introduced requirements for National Risk Assessments (NRAs) of money laundering and terrorism financing (ML/TF) risks, the international community is at the right point to review the past 10 years and… Read More ›