The Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (Fintrac) has published a new operational alert, Laundering the Proceeds of Crime from Illegal Wildlife Trade. It aims to assist Canadian businesses meet legal requirements to identify and report financial transactions… Read More ›
The total projected cost of financial crime compliance in the US and Canada for 2022 is up 13.6 per cent from 2021 to US$56.7 billion, according to a survey of North American financial institutions by Lexis Nexis Risk Solutions. The… 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 ›
An interview with anti-corruption expert José Hernandez published this month by the Chartered Professional Accountants (CPA) of Canada provides a comprehensive overview of the global factors making it ever more difficult to “follow the money” in cases of corruption or… Read More ›
The European Commission (EC) has set out plans to introduce a new import ban on Russian gold to align with the announcement last month that the UK, Canada, US and Japan would do so in an attempt to stem funding for… Read More ›
Federal investigative agencies have done little to address trade-based money laundering (TBML) according to the final version of a report commissioned by British Columbia into money laundering following revelations of widespread trade-based financial crime in the Canadian province (Trade-based Financial… Read More ›
Canada’s anti-money laundering and counter financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) regulator and financial intelligence unit has published a Special Bulletin on Russia-linked money laundering related to sanctions evasion. Ottowa has imposed a significant number of new sanctions on Russia in response… Read More ›
Compliance costs for trade-based money laundering (TBML) have increased very significantly in the US and Canada in the two years to 2021 while the total projected cost of financial crime compliance in the region is up 58 per cent compared… Read More ›