🌐 Global Compliance : AML, CFT & Sanctions 13 July 2025
🇪🇺 EU Removes UAE & Gibraltar from Grey List As of July 9, 2025, the European Union officially delisted the United Arab Emirates and Gibraltar from its AML/CFT “grey list.”…
Reflections on CryptoCon Sydney 2024: Key Insights and Takeaways
The CryptoCon Sydney event in 2024 brought together crypto enthusiasts, investors, tax experts, financial crime specialists, and people from all walks of life to explore strategies and challenges shaping the…
Case Study: The Commonwealth Bank of Australia – Intelligent Deposit machines and the $700m in fines
Introduction The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) is one of the largest financial institutions in Australia. In recent years, the bank has faced significant scrutiny from regulatory bodies due to…
Staying Just Under: The Script Kiddie’s Guide to Money Laundering
One of the simplest and most common techniques used by rookie money launderers is “structuring” or “smurfing”—breaking up large transactions into smaller amounts to avoid detection. The goal is to…
Transaction Monitoring Watchlists and How to Keep Them Updated
Introduction: What Are Watchlists? A watchlist is a broader, flexible list of individuals, entities, or countries that pose potential risks. Being on a watchlist doesn’t necessarily mean that an individual…
Starting a business in Europe and the UK
As compliance and risk specialists it is important to find the weakest link. Where are the opportunities to create assets that appear genuine but are not and where can firms…
The 101: Everything Synthetic ID
Some of the most horrible crimes we have seen in our career was not Identify theft but synthetic ID. We saw a fraud vector that had the patience to raise…
Understanding Cryptocurrency Addresses: Key Parameters and Identification Techniques
Cryptocurrency addresses are unique identifiers used to send and receive transactions on blockchain networks. While these addresses may appear as a random string of alphanumeric characters, there are various parameters…
What are financial crime rule categories, and why is understanding them important?
Financial crime analytical systems have rules, rule types, and rule categories, so what are these? And when do you use one and not the other? Let’s learn about them. Rule…
Naming Financial crime rules effectively
So, you do a perfect analysis of a fraud pattern, understand the features involved in the rule, and are now ready to implement the rule. Do you give much thought…