Reported by Brian Danga (Excerpt shared below. To read full report, go to: https://www.theblock.co/post/384753/crypto-crime-150-billion-usd-2025-state-actors-scale-onchain-chainalysis) The professionalization of the illicit onchain ecosystem reached a new quantitative peak in 2025 as sovereign states integrated with established criminal supply chains to bypass global financial restrictions. According to a new Chainalysis report shared with The Block on Jan. 8, […]

Reported by WorkFusion and Compliance Week (Summary featured below. To read full report, go to: https://www.workfusion.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Financial-Services-Roadmap-Know-Your-Customer-E-Book_WorkFusion-Compliance-Week.pdf) KYC is no longer a static compliance checkpoint but a scalable risk-intelligence function embedded across the customer lifecycle. As highlighted in WorkFusion’s The Financial Services Roadmap: Know Your Customer, expanding sanctions regimes, opaque ownership structures, and surging alert volumes […]

Reported by FinCEN (Dec 31, 2025) Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a final rule to extend the effective date of the rule establishing Anti-Money Laundering/Countering the Financing of Terrorism Program and Suspicious Activity Report Filing Requirements for Registered Investment Advisers and Exempt Reporting Advisers (IA AML Rule) from January […]

Reported by Christiaan Triebert and Anatoly Kurmanae (Summary featured below. To read full report, go to: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/world/americas/oil-tankers-venezuela-blockade.html) At least 16 oil tankers sanctioned by the United States appear to have fled Venezuelan ports in a coordinated effort to evade a sweeping U.S. naval blockade on the country’s oil exports. Satellite imagery shows the vessels departing shortly after […]

Reported by JILL MAHONEY (Excerpt shared below. To read full report, go to: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-anti-money-laundering-public-beneficial-land-ownership-registry/) Anti-money-laundering experts are calling on the Ontario government to create a land ownership transparency registry to crack down on criminals who hide illicit funds in real estate.  Such public registries force the disclosure of the ultimate, or beneficial, owners of properties, including those held […]

Reported by FinCrime Blogger (To read full indictment, go to this link: https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1422326/dl! The superseding indictment of Nicolás Maduro and senior figures in the Venezuelan regime goes well beyond political symbolism, offering a detailed case study in how financial crime operates when a state itself becomes the facilitator. U.S. prosecutors allege that core government institutions […]

Report by Michela Tindera and Elliot Smither (Summary shared below. To read full transcript, go to: https://www.ft.com/content/d7650e82-9f36-4b54-9a89-86b5c899d209) Digital scams are accelerating at a pace that is outstripping traditional defenses, driven by rapid advances in technology and the industrialization of fraud. At the FT Global Banking Summit, panelists described a landscape where deepfakes, AI-powered impersonation, and […]