Reported by Lourdes Medrano (Excerpt shared below. To read full report, go to: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/11/us-mexico-border-area-money-transfer-rule-change-small-businesses) Last April, the Trump administration rolled out its latest tool in the fight against Mexican cartels: an aggressive crackdown on money transfers near the US-Mexico border. The administration said that, in an effort to stop money laundering and other illicit activity, it would now […]

Reported by FinCEN The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) is issuing a final rule that permanently removes the requirement for U.S. companies and U.S. persons to report beneficial ownership information to FinCEN under the Corporate Transparency Act.  The final rule is effective on its publication in the Federal Register. FinCEN today also announced that […]

Reported by Alexander Osipovich (Summary shared below. To read full report, go to: https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/russias-hottest-startup-is-a-state-backed-sanctions-evasion-network-7afc488c?mod=mhp) A7, a Russian payment network launched less than two years ago, has rapidly become an important channel for moving money into and out of Russia despite Western sanctions. The company says it now handles nearly 20% of Russia’s foreign-trade payments, or […]

Reported by Eliot Brown and Vladimir Karaj (Summary shared below. To read full report, go to: https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/jared-kushner-albania-shehu-drug-investigation-95391263?mod=mhp) A luxury resort project backed by Jared Kushner is facing growing controversy after prosecutors accused a businessman who sold land to the development group of playing a leading role in an international cocaine-trafficking and money-laundering operation. Artur Shehu, who […]

Reported by Martin Arnold (Summary shared below. To read full report, go to: https://www.ft.com/content/0edbd013-dc35-494b-b7e7-9a745af01c9d?syn-25a6b1a6=1) The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority is stepping up scrutiny of unregulated lenders and other financial firms after the collapse of Market Financial Solutions raised concerns about fraud and weaknesses in asset-backed lending. The FCA said it plans to seek information from […]

Reported by The New Arab Staff & Agencies (Excerpt shared below. To read full report, go to: https://www.newarab.com/news/uae-extradites-suspected-cartel-boss-ireland?amp) Authorities in the United Arab Emirates handed over alleged transnational cartel boss Daniel Kinahan to face trial in Ireland, the Gulf country’s official media reported on Sunday. The 49-year-old Irishman allegedly ran a group out of Dubai that has been linked […]

(To buy book, go to In Order to Live.) Yeonmi Park’s In Order to Live is not a policy paper on North Korea, it is something more valuable: a firsthand account of what life under an authoritarian regime actually costs its people. Park, who escaped North Korea at thirteen with her family and later survived […]

Reported by UA News (Excerpt shared below. To read full report, go to: https://ua.news/en/world/v-rf-zafiksuvali-rekordne-zrostannia-sprav-pro-vidmivannia-groshei-za-15-rokiv) In Russia, the number of criminal cases related to money laundering has risen sharply. From January through June, law enforcement agencies opened 1,145 criminal cases, which is nearly a third more than during the same period last year. This is the highest figure in the last 15 years. According to […]

Reported by FACT Coalition (Excerpt shared below. To read full report, go to: https://thefactcoalition.org/just-the-facts-8-6-26/) On July 16, Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and Representative Brittany Pettersen (CO-7) reintroduced the Disclosure of Tax Havens and Offshoring Act, legislation that would require American multinational corporations to publish expanded financial information on their offshore operations, known as public country-by-country […]

To BUY book go to: https://amzn.to/4w5RQbz Peter Schweizer’s Throw Them All Out is an uncomfortable read for anyone who assumes insider trading laws apply equally to the people who write them. Schweizer, of the Hoover Institution, methodically documents how members of Congress from both parties turned privileged access, from IPO allocations to stimulus fund distribution, […]