Reported by Abm (Excerpt shared below. To read full report, go to: https://www.share-talk.com/anonymity-in-the-age-of-kyc-are-privacy-focused-users-being-locked-out/) Anonymity used to be easy to find online. Many services allowed people to interact, trade, or manage accounts without revealing much about themselves. That space is shrinking fast. Platforms now treat identity as a requirement rather than a choice, and the pressure […]

Reported by TAPinto Bordentown Staff (Excerpt shared below. To read full report, go to: https://www.tapinto.net/towns/bordentown/sections/law-and-justice/articles/fbi-warns-of-imposters-scamming-college-students-2d7f2e1d-4e92-40dc-b4a7-b78c0995971b) As college students head back to campus for the spring semester, the Philadelphia Field Office of the FBI has issued a warning for students to be aware of scams involving foreign government impersonators.  The FBI said that since 2022 they […]

Reported by A&O Shearman (Summary shared below. To read full report, go to: https://www.aoshearman.com/en/insights/cross-border-white-collar-crime-and-investigations-review-2026/keeping-up-with-the-us-evolving-white-collar-crime-enforcement-landscape) The U.S. white-collar crime enforcement landscape shifted sharply in 2025 under the second Trump administration, with a significant pullback in traditional enforcement activity due to major personnel departures, agency resource reductions, and policy realignments, even though the underlying laws remain unchanged […]

Reported by Dearbail Jordan and Jemma Crew (Excerpt shared below. To read full report, go to: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx20199qzj9o) Deutsche Bank’s offices in Frankfurt and Berlin have been raided by officials as part of an inquiry into money laundering. In a statement, the Office of the Federal Prosecutor said it was conducting an investigation, involving the Federal […]

Reported by Elizabeth Howcroft (Excerpt shared below. To read full report, go to: https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/crypto-money-laundering-hit-82-billion-2025-researchers-say-2026-01-27/) Money launderers received at least $82 billion in cryptocurrencies last year, up sharply from $10 billion in 2020, driven in part by fast growth among Chinese-speaking groups, blockchain researchers said on Tuesday. The fastest-growing ‌category has been Chinese-language money-laundering networks, which […]

Reported by Steve Weisman (Excerpt shared below. To read full report, go to: https://www.forbes.com/sites/steveweisman/2026/01/25/from-mailbox-to-bank-fraud-check-theft-is-surging-and-how-to-stop-it/) While the crime may seem like something from another era, mail theft is big business. Financial‑crime analysts at the Treasury Department’s FINCEN estimate check fraud accounted for about $21 billion dollars in losses during 2023 with a substantial portion of that amount originating […]

Reported by NVIDIA (Summary shared below. To read full report, go to: https://resources.nvidia.com/en-us-2026-fsi-survey/finance-state-of-ai-report?mkt_tok=MTU2LU9GTi03NDIAAAGfkbLI9CunWi8aUHvIdIerIMHZj5K3s9PuNBVZOWZpyJVO7NU2bEMhbIgQ6-1555mXIhYM8E-0nTRKQ04ls-FztTSbaMSBde3oFrhYpCySQNto4NRI0YM-Rw) The State of AI in Financial Services: 2026 Trends survey shows that adoption of artificial intelligence in financial services is accelerating rapidly, moving well beyond experimental pilots into production use. Based on responses from more than 800 financial services professionals, 65% of […]

Reported by Christina Goldbaum (Excerpt shared below. To read full report, go to: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/world/americas/hezbollah-venezuela-ties.html) How did Hezbollah get involved in Venezuela? Hezbollah’s connection stemmed from the relationship between Venezuela and Iran. Two oil-rich countries under American sanctions, they were bound by anti-American ideology and helped each other evade U.S. sanctions. Iran and Venezuela have maintained economic […]

Reported by Anas Hassan (Excerpt shared below. To read full report, go to: https://cryptonews.com/news/bipartisan-push-to-remove-developer-safeguards-from-market-structure-bill/) Senate Judiciary leaders Chuck Grassley and senators have warned that a provision in Senate Banking Chair Tim Scott’s crypto bill could curtail law enforcement’s ability to prosecute money laundering and other illicit financial crimes. The provision would exempt certain blockchain software […]

Reported by U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Virginia (originally published via https://www.justice.gov/usao-edva/pr/venezuelan-national-charged-laundering-approximately-billion-dollars-illicit-funds) A Venezuelan national has been charged by criminal complaint in the Eastern District of Virginia with conspiracy to launder money. “This case involves the alleged laundering approximately a billion dollars – a scale of criminal conduct that poses a profound threat to […]