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EBA’s ACTING AML CHIEF INTERVIEWED: How cryptos are still poorly understood across EU; why risk-based approach is difficult to get right; where tech helps – and doesn’t; the rollout of 300 ‘AML Colleges’; and the future of anti-financial crime in Europe

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NEWS: US banks warn generative AI is ‘industrialising’ scams

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NEWS: AI used to bypass gambling KYC checks, UK watchdog warns 

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INSIGHT: Illicit Iranian gambling network helped pull off a $4bn sanctions dodge

Dan Byrne speaks with Senior Policy Expert for Innovation, Conducts and Consumers Carolin Gardner at the European Banking Authority.

Carolin is now acting head of the EBA’s dedicated AML/CFT unit – set up as part of the authority’s mandate to “lead co-ordinate and monitor” the fight against financial crime in Europe.

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  • World Day Against Trafficking in Persons

    Across the world, transnational organized crime groups are trafficking and exploiting thousands of people and forcing them to take part in industrial-scale financial fraud operations. This is a growing form of trafficking in persons for forced criminality, closely intertwined with cybercrime, financial fraud, money-laundering and corruption. In East and South-East Asia, UNODC estimates between US $18 billion and $37 billion financial losses from scams targeting victims in 2023 alone, with a high proportion of these losses attributes to scams committed by organized crime groups located in the region.

  • 850 years in jail for criminals and £70m-worth of drugs seized by specialist Merseyside team

    National Crime Agency

    More than 100 criminals linked to drug and gun crime in Merseyside have been jailed as a result of investigations by a specialist team formed in 2021. One-hundred-and-eight criminals are serving 851 years in prison for crimes including importing drugs, supplying guns and laundering money linked to serious and organised crime. Officers from Merseyside Organised Crime Partnership (OCP) have seized cocaine, heroin, cannabis and ketamine worth up to £70m.

  • 850 years in jail for criminals and £70m-worth of drugs seized by specialist Merseyside team

    National Crime Agency

    More than 100 criminals linked to drug and gun crime in Merseyside have been jailed as a result of investigations by a specialist team formed in 2021. One-hundred-and-eight criminals are serving 851 years in prison for crimes including importing drugs, supplying guns and laundering money linked to serious and organised crime. Officers from Merseyside Organised Crime Partnership (OCP) have seized cocaine, heroin, cannabis and ketamine worth up to £70m.

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