Countries must secure new and emerging gateways that are used to circumvent sanctions, as North Korea’s exploitation of cryptocurrency continues.
July 19, 2022The most prominent ML threats to banks come from fraud, corruption and tax crimes. The main ML threats to the crypto sector relate to fraud and theft.
July 12, 2022The UK scrapped a proposal to require both fiat currency and cryptoasset transfers to be considered when calculating the de minimis threshold, which has been set at EUR 1,000.
June 21, 2022The AMLC has partnered with AML Analytics as its testing and validation partner to conduct a thematic review of customer- and transaction-screening systems at FIs and DNFBPs.
April 26, 2022The commitment includes action to promptly implement global beneficial ownership rules and increase countries' capabilities to recover criminal assets.
April 22, 2022The FATF finds that countries have made "huge progress" in improving technical compliance, but many still face substantial challenges in taking effective action.
April 20, 2022BNM is using technology to improve its risk-based supervision, intelligence analysis, data science techniques and off-site surveillance.
December 6, 2021Changes being considered include the introduction of a new registration regime for all AML/CFT businesses, a licensing regime for VASPs, and direct penalties for senior managers.
October 8, 2021The COSMIC platform will be developed and deployed in phases. The initial participants are DBS, OCBC, UOB, StanChart, Citibank and HSBC.
October 3, 2021The guidance now covers targeted financial sanctions related to terrorism, terrorism financing, and proliferation financing, including remedies and relevant UNSC links.
September 13, 2021