Countering the misuse of trade finance for illicit purposes, abuse of shell companies and proliferation financing (PF) will be the initial three key financial crime risks in commercial banking focused on in Singapore’s new ambitious digital platform for financial institutions… Read More ›

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Trade finance banks not doing enough to detect fraud and crime say UK regulators
British regulators have written an unusually blunt letter to the CEOs of the UK’s largest banks ordering them to conduct a full financial crime risk assessment of their processes to detect money laundering, sanctions evasion, terrorist financing and fraud among… Read More ›
UK regulator says some of its biggest sanctions related to financial crime and AML failure
Two of the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA’s) biggest sanctions in the last 12 months related to failures to address financial crime and anti-money laundering (AML) risks according to the authority’s executive director of enforcement and market oversight, Mark Steward…. Read More ›