An ex-lawyer caught for fraud and laundering via his investment fund; Portugal’s banks purge crypto exchanges; and 3 charged with defrauding US Covid-19 relief funds.
The UK’s halting money laundering through property purchases; Australian authorities proposed restrictions on casinos; and Mexico’s FIU investigated an ex-president.
Technology’s use by human traffickers has only been exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic and global digitalisation, but it can also be used by the AML sector to eliminate the scourge.
Hagar is an international NGO (non-governmental organisation) with 28 years of experience in healing and empowering communities suffering from the trauma of human trafficking, modern-day slavery, and abuse. To raise awareness of how technology is used to enable human trafficking and also how it can be used to disrupt it, Napier’s head of APAC, Robin Lee, sat down with Dr Andrew Catford, Global CEO of Hagar International, to talk about the problem.
Concern in the UK that a jobs-cut will encourage financial crime; a joint operation busts money laundering operation in Hungary; and Taiwan halts credit cards for cryptocurrency trades.
To learn more about the use and abuse of technology in human trafficking, we interviewed Aaron Kahler, Founder and CEO of the Anti-Human Trafficking Intelligence Initiative.
UK couple jailed for laundering offences; Australian authorities seized a record cash haul from laundering syndicate; and UK and US governments launch competition to fight financial crime.
We interviewed Michael Hearns to gain insight into the role law enforcement agencies play in the fight against financial crime, and the challenges they face in doing so.
The UK Treasury polls the public on crypto assets; two asset managers face charges in a billion-dollar laundering scheme; and Ukraine seizes assets from crypto brokers with Russian clients.
We’re proud to have been named in the 2022 cohort for The Fintech Power 50, a list of the most visionary companies and personalities in the financial industry.
Moscow welcomed Boris Johnson’s resignation as PM, Ukraine did not; South Africa risk the FATF grey list; and Pakistan’s ex-PM was accused of money laundering using diamonds.
Napier and Thomson Reuters ran a webinar on the increasing costs and requirements facing the compliance sector, find the summary of the panel’s insights here.
Just how risky are NFTs and what can be done to mitigate that risk? We looked at advice issued by J5 and spoke with DOJ legal advisor, Karyn Kenny, to find out.
The fugitive ‘Cryptoqueen’ makes the FBI’s most-wanted list; the UK sanctions Russia’s second-richest man; and a global Task Force have disrupted $300bn in Russian assets.
Our Chief Data Scientist, Dr Janet Bastiman, recaps the key takeaways of her recent FFECON panel discussion: ‘With Great AI Power Comes Great FinCrime Responsibility’
Opponents ask the FBI to probe South Africa’s President for money laundering; Pakistan may get off the Grey List; and 2 brothers will pay millions to the UK’s NCA.
Our leading anti-financial crime compliance solutions can now be deployed across multiple geographies and business units in a single tenancy environment.
Interpol arrested thousands of scammers globally; a Californian court found two Nigerian fraudsters guilty as charged; and the UK’s jailed its one-time most-wanted woman.
We took a look at the current AML/CFT regime in the US, as described by the US Treasury’s May 2022 report: ‘National Strategy for Combating Terrorist and Other Illicit Financing.’
A Tiger King star is behind bars for money laundering; foreign regimes are enabling organised crime in Australia; and the Gupta brothers are arrested for laundering.
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