Category: Regions
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Singapore tightens government control of virtual payment service providers as global cryptocurrency uptake increases
REGULATORY WATCH: $20 million penalty levied against US concrete firm
Malta PM confident country will avoid FATF grey-list following spate of recent reforms
French bank lands multi-million dollar fine in United States for ‘reckless disregard’ of Syria sanctions
Sweeping new AML powers for FinCEN as Defense Act is brought into law in the US
Hong Kong announces four-year-high in asset seizures for 2020 as top official warns the pandemic has changed how criminals launder money
Britain’s money service businesses (MSBs) thought to launder £1BN per year as 15pc of the country’s 31,000 firms linked to criminal activity
Canada sets up new AML task forces drawn from police, prosecution, immigration and revenue agencies
Europe must decide ‘how reliant we want to be on a major financial centre’ like London ‘that is in a third country, outside our regulatory orbit,’ says Europe’s finance Commissioner
Swedbank says it has frozen the accounts of a Lithuanian sanitorium owned by Belarusian government ministry
