Reported by Martin Arnold and Stephanie Stacey (Excerpt shared below. To read full report, go to: https://www.ft.com/content/58e9a70f-29c2-4f44-8531-00fc399ebbe0?syn-25a6b1a6=1) Prediction markets are “rife with insider trading” and expose investors to serious risks of losses and exploitation by more sophisticated players, according to the EU’s main market watchdog, in a warning that reveals a growing divergence with the US. The […]

Reported by Reuters (Summary shared below. To read full report, go to: https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/iran/2026-09-10/ty-article/iran-used-oil-for-goods-deals-with-china-to-bypass-sanctions-sources-say/000001a0-8a5c-d9dc-a9a9-8ade0f160000) Iran has developed a barter-like mechanism with China that allows it to convert oil revenues into Chinese goods while reducing its reliance on the international banking system, according to people familiar with the arrangement cited by Reuters. Under the system, Iranian oil […]

Reported by Akbar Novruz (Excerpt shared below. To read full report, go to: https://www.azernews.az/region/263604.html) A 33-year-old Georgian national has been charged in the United States in connection with an alleged $1.3 billion healthcare fraud and money-laundering scheme that US authorities have dubbed “Operation Gold Rush.” The US Department of Justice described the investigation as the […]

Reported by Mercedes Ruehl (Excerpt shared below. To read full report, go to: https://www.ft.com/content/700806be-ecba-4c0b-92a9-cc32d7feded4?syn-25a6b1a6=1) Pierre Mirabaud, a former senior partner of the Geneva private bank that bears his family name, was handed a two-year suspended prison sentence by Switzerland’s Federal Criminal Court in Bellinzona on Tuesday. Mirabaud was president of the Swiss Bankers Association from 2003 […]

Reported by Karen Freifeld (Excerpt shared below. To read full report, go to: https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/huawei-heads-trial-us-over-its-business-dealings-iran-2026-09-08/) Eight years after U.S. prosecutors secretly charged China’s Huawei Technologies with defrauding HSBC (HSBA.L) and other banks over its business with Iran, the case ‌is finally heading for trial. Huawei also faces charges for conspiring to steal trade secrets from five U.S. technology […]

Reported by Ivan Angelovski and Eric Szeto (Summary shared below. To read full report, go to: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canadian-banking-company-linked-to-sanctioned-money-laundering-network-9.7331482) A CBC News investigation, conducted with the Centre for Information Resilience, has uncovered extensive digital and corporate links between Maple Digital Financial Solutions, a Vancouver-registered money-services business, and the TGR network, an international money-laundering network that authorities have […]

Reported by Bloomberg Editorial Board (Summary shared below. To read full report, go to: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-09-03/fighting-financial-crime-and-shell-companies-shouldn-t-be-so-hard) A Bloomberg editorial argues that the United States is dismantling one of the few tools designed to help law enforcement identify who actually owns American companies. The Corporate Transparency Act, passed in 2021, created a federal beneficial-ownership database requiring most […]

Reported by Evan Perez and Hannah Rabinowitz (Summary shared below. To read full report, go to: https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/04/politics/trump-admin-quietly-closes-probe-betancourt) The Trump administration has quietly closed a long-running Justice Department investigation involving Venezuelan businessman Alejandro Betancourt, according to the CNN report, just as Betancourt emerged as a key intermediary in the administration’s effort to strike a major oil […]

US issues sanctions on Turkish bank that it calls a ‘critical financial lifeline’ for Iran Reported by FARNOUSH AMIRI and ANDREW WILKS (Excerpt shared below. To read full report, go to: https://apnews.com/article/sanctions-turkish-bank-iran-dde8b5408b85115f79b7351c8e882815) The Trump administration announced Friday that it has imposed sanctions on a Turkish financial institution as part of its latest effort to sever “critical financial […]

Reported by JAMES C. REYNOLDS (Excerpt shared below. To read full report, go to: https://www.aol.com/articles/andrew-tate-indicted-romania-sex-092023000.html) Romanian prosecutors officially indicted Andrew Tate on Friday on charges including trafficking ​minors and money laundering after years of investigation.  Prosecutors also indicted Tate for sex ⁠with a minor, ⁠witness tampering ‌and his brother Tristan ‌for complicity, years after they first began […]