Reported by Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP (Except featured below. To read full report, go to: https://www.hunton.com/insights/legal/investment-advisers-to-launch-aml-programs-january-1-2026) Beginning January 1, 2026, many investment advisers will be required under federal law to implement anti-money laundering (“AML”) programs.[1] These requirements are intended to deputize investment advisers to help law enforcement prevent money laundering, terrorist financing, and other illicit finance […]

Reported by Zach Montague (Except shown below. To read full report, go to: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/us/politics/trump-cartels-border-businesses.html) Federal judges have lauded the government’s goal of rooting out money laundering schemes but questioned the effectiveness of a tactic that’s wreaking havoc on small money services operations. Scrolling through Instagram one day in March, Ashley Light froze on a post […]

Reported by Sky News

(Summary featured here. For full report, download below.) The Project Hertha report by the BIS Innovation Hub and Bank of England investigates how real-time retail payment systems can be leveraged to detect financial crime through advanced analytics. By using a highly realistic synthetic dataset consisting of 1.8 million bank accounts and 308 million transactions, the […]

Reported by Andrew Weichel (Excerpt featured below. To read full report, go to: https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/fentanyl-precursors-diverted-from-mexico-to-bc-trumps-fbi-director-claims-in-joe-rogan-interview/) The B.C. government is pushing back on claims made by FBI director Kash Patel while discussing the fentanyl crisis with comedian Joe Rogan. Appearing on the latest episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast, Patel told the host fentanyl precursor chemicals from China […]

Reported by Joe Rogan Experience See video below. Trump’s FBI Director Kash Patel talks to Joe Rogan about the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) distributing fentanyl in the U.S. via Vancouver, Canada.

Reported by U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of California  Hector Alejandro Paez Garcia, a Mexico City-based attorney, has pleaded guilty in federal court, admitting that he and others conspired to transport, transmit, and transfer tens of millions of dollars in drug trafficking proceeds from the United States to Mexico. Paez’s plea is part of a […]

Reported by Ravi Gedela (Excerpt shown below. Read full report via https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbestechcouncil/2025/06/04/from-risk-to-resilience-ai-accelerators-and-the-future-of-financial-crime-management/) Fighting Financial Crimes In The Age Of AI The impact of AI on financial crime prevention is already profound, extending beyond traditional risk and compliance to include fraud detection, identity theft, cybersecurity and privacy protection. As banks adopt AI, cloud and big data, […]

Reported by Sky News Despite sanctions, some in Iran are super rich. Who are they?

Reported by Curios Clicks Rudy Kurniawan amassed a vast fortune trading in rare wines. Trouble is, he was bottling them himself.