Regulatory Ramblings: Episode 76 - The Digital Future: The US GENIUS Act and Hong Kong Stablecoins Ordinance / The Hong Kong Web3 Blueprint: Building a Web 3 International Financial Hub Report
Compliance Tip of the Day: Citibank and Continuous Monitoring
Compliance into the Weeds: Sanctions Compliance Failures: Lessons from Harman International and Interactive Brokers
Episode 377 -- Refocusing Due Diligence on Cartels and TCOs
Upping Your Game: Continuous Monitoring with AI
Daily Compliance News: May 19, 2025, The Definition of Corruption Edition
2 Gurus Talk Compliance: Episode 51 – The Compliance Week at 20 Edition
Navigating the Future of Payment Stablecoins: Legislative Updates and Market Implications — The Crypto Exchange Podcast
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending April 12, 2025
Daily Compliance News: April 7, 2025, The Whistleblowers Awarded Edition
Strengthening Compliance: Lessons From the OCC's Consent Order With Patriot Bank — Payments Pros – The Payments Law Podcast
Great Women in Compliance: Roundtable on The Future of Financial Crime Prevention
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 50 - Hidden in Plain Sight: How Kleptocrats Exploit U.S. Financial Systems
Corruption, Crime & Compliance: TD Bank Agrees to Pay Over $3 Billion for Systemic Violations of Bank Secrecy Act and Money Laundering Violations
Episode 343 -- TD Bank Agrees to Pay Over $3 Billion for Systemic Violations of Bank Secrecy Act and Money Laundering Violations
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau vs. the Video Game Industry
Business Better Podcast Episode: FinCEN’s Notice of Proposed Regulations to Strengthen and Modernize AML/CFT Compliance Programs
Cannabis Law Now Podcast: Cannabis Companies and the Corporate Transparency Act
Examining FinCEN FAQs, Proposed Legislation and Other CTA Developments
Practical Lessons Learned Regarding the Bank Secrecy Act and Anti-Money Laundering for Financial Institutions - The Consumer Finance Podcast
On May 12, the Head of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Criminal Division, Matthew Galeotti, delivered remarks at the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association’s Anti-Money Laundering and Financial Crimes...more
On May 12, 2025, the Head of the Criminal Division (the Criminal Division or Division) at the Department of Justice (DOJ), Matthew R. Galeotti, issued key memoranda to Criminal Division personnel on the Division’s new...more
On May 12, 2025, Matthew Galeotti, Head of the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice (“DOJ”), published a memorandum outlining the DOJ’s current investigation and enforcement priorities for prosecuting corporate and...more
Background - The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (the Act) seeks to prevent economic crime and to enhance the transparency of companies and other legal entities....more
The UK government introduced a major overhaul of its framework for addressing financial crime — and brought into force numerous significant changes — when the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (the Act)...more
On April 15, 2024, the Department of Justice’s (DOJ’s) Criminal Division unveiled a new Pilot Program on Voluntary Self-Disclosures for Individuals that offers non-prosecution agreements (NPAs) to individuals who voluntarily...more
On 26 October 2023, the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (the Act) became law in the UK. The Act represents a major overhaul of the UK government’s framework for tackling financial crime and has brought into...more
German authorities have intensified and accelerated their enforcement activities in 2023, following a slowdown of both investigations and court proceedings during the pandemic. This had led to a surge of dawn-raids in...more
Summary - The Department of Justice (DOJ) has created the International Corporate Anti-Bribery initiative (ICAB), which aims to strengthen the United States’ global efforts in combating corruption through enhanced...more
The past few months have seen numerous high-profile enforcement actions highlighting an increasing trend, what Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco called “the biggest shift in corporate criminal enforcement that I’ve seen...more
On October 4, 2023, United States Deputy Attorney General (DAG) Lisa Monaco announced a new Department of Justice (DOJ) Mergers & Acquisitions Safe Harbor policy that encourages companies to self-disclose criminal misconduct...more
The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act (ECCTA) introduces a suite of wide-ranging reforms to tackle economic crime and improve transparency over corporate entities. Under the ECCTA, Companies House will have...more
The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (the “Act”) received Royal Assent on 26 October 2023, having received its first reading in Parliament over a year ago and more recently having been the object of a series...more
As part of the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023, there are two new 'pay-away' exceptions to the need for a firm in the regulated sector to file a Defence against Money Laundering - Previously a firm in...more
The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), enacted by Congress as part of the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020, for the first time under federal law, requires the establishment of a centralized, national beneficial ownership...more
On 11 April 2023, the UK Home Office tabled an amendment to the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (the Bill), which is currently making its way through the UK Parliament. The amendment introduces a much...more
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”) enforcement has yet to rebound from the immediate pre-pandemic period. In 2022, DOJ and SEC resolved eight corporate FCPA matters for $878 million, including four resolutions coordinated...more
On January 16, 2023, France’s financial prosecutor, the “Parquet National Financier” (PNF), issued updated guidance (the Guidelines) regarding its approach to offering, negotiating and entering into French deferred...more
On Tuesday, March 22, 2022, Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Polite of the Department of Justice (DOJ) told an audience of compliance professionals that DOJ will direct prosecutors to "consider requiring" chief compliance...more
In the early hours of 15 March 2022, the Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act (the “Act”) came into force. The rapid passage of the Act through the UK Parliament, after years of delays, came in response to...more
Recently, three of Australia's four largest banks have self-reported breaches of anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing laws. Commonwealth Bank of Australia in 2018 admitted fault and agreed to pay a civil...more
The Law Commission has published its much anticipated report on reform of the UK's anti-money laundering and terrorism financing regime, and in particular of the system of suspicious activity reports ("SARs"). The proposed...more
If you are the trustee of a non-UK trust which has UK assets or UK sources of income, you need to take action before 5 March 2018 or face potential civil and even criminal penalties. The EU's Fourth Anti-Money Laundering...more
Speaking at the 35th annual Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime, Robert Buckland QC MP, the Solicitor General for England and Wales, and David Green QC, Director of the SFO, addressed the question, “Preventing...more
The Criminal Finance Act 2017 received Royal Assent on April 27, 2017, making its way onto the statute book before the halting of Parliamentary business ahead of this year’s general election. As well as giving enforcement...more