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White Collar Crime in the Digital Age: Emerging Trends and Investigation Techniques

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White Collar Crime in the Digital Age: Emerging Trends and Investigation Techniques - The digital revolution has transformed white-collar crime into a sophisticated enterprise, leveraging technology to execute complex...more

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Understanding India’s Evolving Legal and Regulatory Framework for Combating Financial Fraud

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Introduction - Financial fraud represents a persistent threat to economic stability, undermining trust among businesses, investors, and the general public. As India’s financial ecosystem expands and transactions become...more

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Facing the Auditing Challenge: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Robotics in Financial Crime Compliance

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As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes central to financial crime compliance -- powering fraud detection, transaction monitoring, and sanctions screening -- internal audit faces a new challenge: How do you provide assurance...more

Ropes & Gray LLP

FinCEN Delays AML Program Rule for Investment Advisers

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On July 21, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) announced that it intends to delay implementation of its final rule, Anti-Money Laundering/Countering the Financing of Terrorism...more

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Strong Borders Act: A Landmark Shift in Canada’s AML Penalties

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On June 3, 2025, Canada’s new federal government introduced Bill C-2 (Bill), the Strong Borders Act, for first reading in the House of Commons. The Bill includes significant amendments to Canada’s anti-money laundering...more

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Recent SEC AML Enforcement Against Securities Firms Engaged in Cannabis Sector

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The evolving regulatory landscape for marijuana-related businesses poses unique compliance challenges for firms in the securities industry. The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) continues to enforce its 2014...more

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DOJ Reinforces Focus on Cartels and Transnational Criminal Organizations

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In a May 12, 2025, memorandum (the May Memorandum) on focus, fairness and efficiency in the fight against white collar crime, the Department of Justice (DOJ) Criminal Division1 again identified the total elimination of...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

DOJ’s Criminal Division Announces Updates to White-Collar Enforcement and Corporate Policies

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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

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10 Important Facts About FinCEN’s Whistleblower Program

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The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) is one of a handful of federal authorities that have adopted whistleblower programs focused on facilitating enforcement in hard-to-target areas. While FinCEN focuses its...more

Hogan Lovells

What is the new EU AML regime?

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The Single Rulebook is intended to be a single source of AML/CTF regulation that will be applied uniformly in all member states across the EU. This will be achieved primarily through the new AML Regulation, which will be...more

Paul Hastings LLP

Anti-Money Laundering Enforcement Risk Still Remains for Virtual Asset Services Providers

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Despite the Trump administration’s generally favorable stance toward cryptocurrency and blockchain innovation, virtual asset services providers (VASPs) must remain vigilant in complying with anti-money laundering (AML)...more

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How the Trump Administration’s War on Cartels Will Reshape the Financial Sector

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On March 11, 2025, the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a Geographic Targeting Order (GTO) aimed at disrupting drug trafficking and money laundering along the southwestern border. The...more

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Understanding the changes to the Proceeds of Crime Act: Insights from our conversation with the FRA

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Businesses must be aware of the three core money laundering offences: concealing, arranging and acquiring (use and possession) criminal property. The FRA has issued a seven-day working period to consider all defence...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

FinCEN Issues Southwest Border Geographic Targeting Order Aimed to Combat Mexican-based Drug Cartels

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We have written previously about the new administration’s significant shifts in its approach to criminal enforcement and prosecution of money laundering cases. Specifically, we wrote about shifts at the U.S. Department of...more

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FinCEN Joins the Government-Wide Pursuit of Cartels

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On March 11, 2025, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a Geographic Targeting Order (GTO) specifically aimed at combatting Mexico-based cartels and other criminals along the southwest border of the United...more

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The Bybit Hack of 2025 — Potential Implications

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On February 21, 2025, Dubai-based Bybit, one of the world’s leading cryptocurrency exchanges, suffered a massive security breach, resulting in the loss of approximately $1.5 billion in Ethereum (ETH). The incident, which is...more

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AML/CFT Compliance in Luxembourg: New Obligations for Funds

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Against the backdrop of reinforced European and international anti-money-laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) requirements, the Administration de l’enregistrement, des domaines et de la TVA (AED) has...more

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FSB letter to G20 finance ministers and central bank governors ahead of meeting

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The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has published a second consultation on payment transparency, and in particular proposed revisions to recommendation 16 (R.16). The revisions adapt the FATF Standards to the changes in...more

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Breaking News: Corporate Transparency Act - Filing Deadlines Can Be Ignored for Now and Maybe Forever for Some

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The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network of the U.S. Department of the Treasury (FinCEN) has changed the rules once again on the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA). Despite recently announcing that the new filing deadline for...more

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Corporate Transparency Act Update: FinCEN Extends Reporting Deadline for Companies

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On February 18, 2025, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a notice extending the deadline for reporting companies to file their Beneficial Ownership Information (BOI) reports under the Corporate...more

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FINRA Issues 2025 Annual Regulatory Oversight Report

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On January 28, 2025, FINRA issued its 2025 Annual Regulatory Oversight Report, providing a detailed look into FINRA’s current regulatory oversight of member firms and their registered personnel....more

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Weekly Blockchain Blog - February 2025

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US Crypto Companies Expand Via New Licenses, Products, Integrations - A major U.S. cryptocurrency exchange recently announced that it has “secured a Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) registration from Argentina’s...more

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AI and Machine Learning in Financial Crime Compliance

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As financial crime risks evolve, including those risks posed by the use of AI and other emerging technologies, so too must firms’ financial crime compliance response. It is unsurprising, therefore, that AI forms part of both...more

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Australia’s regulatory crackdown targets bribery, money laundering and cybercrime

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New bribery offenses in Australia now make it easier for authorities to prosecute organizations and require companies to exercise greater oversight and controls. Australia’s regulators remain active in greenwashing and other...more

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AML/CTF Asset Due Diligence Obligations: CSSF Provides Clarifications in an initial Q&A

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On 13 December 2024, the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF) published the first FAQ to assist professionals in the investment sector supervised, authorised, or registered by the CSSF in complying with...more

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