Reported by by Laurence Hamilton (Excerpt shared below. To read full report, go to: https://consilient.com/illegal-gold-mining-money-laundering-fatf-unodc) I sat through FATF’s launch of its 2026-2028 agenda earlier this month. $1 trillion is the number FATF opened with. That’s what scams cost globally in a single year. That’s what they want to change, and they name cross-border data sharing as one […]

Reported by Robin Wigglesworth (Excerpt shared below. To read full report, go to: https://www.ft.com/content/38d95298-8b9b-486a-96d3-0c6616972abb) Despite now having been around for almost two decades, bitcoin is still struggling with use cases beyond money laundering, sex trafficking, drug selling, ransomware and number-go-up, as Jamie Dimon has acerbically noted. But at least the blockchain allows us a peek at […]