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US FinCrime watchdog is ‘overstretched’ and needs re-imagining; new report and suggests major overhauls for struggling agency, including a ‘FinCEN Manhattan Project’
CARIB: Former Antigua finance watchdog CEO jailed for 10 years over $7BN investment fraud
AMLi NEWS UPDATE: American crypto payments company BitPay pays $500,000 after violating US sanctions; ‘they knew what they were doing,’ says OFAC
NEW ORDER: EU’s finance supremo heaps praise on America’s new AML laws, stresses importance of multilateralism as new era in US relations
CAYMANS: First fines for beneficial ownership violations as Islands align with FATF standards
INSIGHT: Firms in US want more clarity on what makes an effective compliance programme. ACAMS survey sheds light on concerns as new Defence Act laws begin to bed in
TRANSATLANTIC ARRESTS: Credit card fraud scheme busted in global AML operation; Europol reveal millions stolen from at least 50 US financial institutions
Hospice CEO behind $150M ‘reprehensible, deceitful’ money laundering scheme that saw thousands of patients given false diagnoses
US marketing company hit with $150M fine for selling data to fraudsters; non-profit supporters among those targeted by resulting scams
US court hands businessman 35 months in prison for multi-million-dollar bribes of officials within Ecuador’s state oil company
