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    Payments & Settlements

    Significant Progress Made on Cross Border Payments: CPMI

    By Manesh Samtani | 07/06/2024

    More work is needed to integrate cross-border projects with domestic systems, and to extend the operating hours of key payment systems.

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    PEPs & Sanctions

    Taiwan Adds Nitrocellulose to Export Control List

    By Editors | 06/06/2024

    Taiwan is expanding its restrictions on exports of nitrocellulose, which is used to make smokeless gunpowder and ammunition propellant.

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    Clearing & Post-Trade

    FIA, DMIST Publishes New Standards on Average Pricing

    By Editors | 06/06/2024

    DMIST calls for CCPs globally to adopt the new average pricing standards, to drive consistency and improve allocation processes.

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    Anti-Money Laundering

    17 Others Involved in Singapore Money Laundering Probe – Report

    By Nithya Subramanian | 06/06/2024

    The SGD 3 billion in cash and assets seized or issued with prohibition of disposal orders belonged to 27 individuals, not just the 10 accused so far.

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    Trading & Investment

    IOSCO Releases Final Report on Handling Market Outages

    By Nithya Subramanian | 06/06/2024

    The report offers five good practices to improve trading venues’ preparedness for and resilience to market outages.

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    PEPs & Sanctions

    US Authorities Accused of Ignoring Evidence Against StanChart

    By Editors | 06/06/2024

    A whistleblower says US officials falsely denied that he had provided useful information in order to have his claim for a whistleblower reward dismissed.

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    CBDCs

    Project mBridge Ready for Live Transactions by Early Adopters

    By Manesh Samtani | 06/06/2024

    Private sector firms are invited to further develop the multi-CBDC platform by proposing new solutions and use cases.

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    Cybersecurity

    Hackers Put Stolen Santander Data Up for Sale – Reports

    By Editors | 05/06/2024

    The hacking group reportedly stole 30 million customers’ bank account details and 28 million credit card numbers, among other information.

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    CBDCs

    BIS Launches New Project to Enhance Cross-border Payments

    By Manesh Samtani | 05/06/2024

    The project will explore a new automatic FX settlement layer solution for cross-border payments, using wCBDC as a settlement asset.

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    Fraud, Scams & Cybercrime

    Fraud Constitutes 37pc of All Financial Crimes – Report

    By Mark Johnston | 05/06/2024

    Fraud accounted for 37% of financial crime records reviewed by LSEG Risk Intelligence for its inaugural fraud analysis.

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