AML / KYC

The charges in Singapore are for criminal breach of trust and money laundering. A bank official in the Philippines was indicted.

The hackers broke into at least 31 US retail brokerage accounts to buy stock to drive up prices and exit their positions at artificially high prices.

Updated AML/CFT guidelines require DNFBPs to submit proof that their proprietors, partners, directors and principal officers have attended an AML seminar.

The report calls for a shift towards characterising Illegal fishing as a predicate crime type for money laundering, to trigger a more effective AML/CFT response.

IMDA proposes a transition period from October until the end of this year to give organisations time to register their sender IDs.

India’s Enforcement Directorate has frozen funds belonging to three crypto firms including the Indian arm of crypto lender Vauld.

China's sanctions targets include Taiwan’s de facto ambassador to the US, five lawmakers and an activist.

Investors from “unfriendly” countries remain subject to capital controls banning them from selling or collecting payments on Russian securities.

Dutch authorities arrested a software developer of crypto mixer Tornado Cash last week. Two others were reportedly arrested in the US and Estonia.

The iPay88 breach will be raised in a Cabinet meeting to discuss a proposal to establish a Royal Commission of Inquiry to investigate the incident.