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Maryland Woman Charged with Tax Refund Fraud

A federal grand jury in Baltimore, Maryland,...

UN Funding Crisis Threatens Work of Human Rights Council

Today, the United Nations Human Rights Council...

South Korea: Older Workers’ Low-Paid, Precarious Work

South Korea’s age-based employment laws and policies...

Money Laundering

Maryland Woman Charged with Tax Refund Fraud

A federal grand jury in Baltimore, Maryland, returned an indictment, unsealed late last week, charging a Maryland woman with tax fraud, theft of government funds, and money laundering. The following is according to the indictment: between December 2019 and March 2020, Kendra Nicole Scarborough, of...

Annual Compliance Conference summary: Keynote Speaker Session with Baroness Margaret Hodge

At the Annual Compliance conference recently held in London, we were honoured to hear from Baroness Hodge at our Annual Compliance Conference. Baroness Hodge offered a candid and comprehensive overview of the UK’s...

Final Three Members Charged in Prolific Chinese Money Laundering Scheme Plead Guilty to Laundering Tens of Millions in Drug Proceeds

Two Chinese nationals and a New York woman, all members of a prolific Chinese money laundering organization (CMLO), pleaded guilty today to money laundering charges involving drug trafficking proceeds. They are the last...

Updates to the AML/CFT/CPF Handbook

The Commission has today issued an amendment to the country list in Appendix I of the Handbook on Countering Financial Crime (AML/CFT/CPF) (the “Handbook”) reflecting the Financial Action Task Force (“FATF”)’s updated list of jurisdictions under...

Money Laundering

Maryland Woman Charged with Tax Refund Fraud

A federal grand jury in Baltimore, Maryland, returned an indictment, unsealed late last week, charging a Maryland woman with tax fraud, theft of government funds, and money laundering. The following is according to the indictment: between December 2019 and March 2020, Kendra Nicole Scarborough, of...

Annual Compliance Conference summary: Keynote Speaker Session with Baroness Margaret Hodge

At the Annual Compliance conference recently held in London, we were honoured to hear from Baroness Hodge at our Annual Compliance Conference. Baroness Hodge offered a candid and comprehensive overview of the UK’s...

Final Three Members Charged in Prolific Chinese Money Laundering Scheme Plead Guilty to Laundering Tens of Millions in Drug Proceeds

Two Chinese nationals and a New York woman, all members of a prolific Chinese money laundering organization (CMLO), pleaded guilty today to money laundering charges involving drug trafficking proceeds. They are the last...

USA
Events: 10,500 events
Fines: USD290 Bn
Imprisonment: 1,245,000 months
Entities (including individuals and organizations): 17K

UK
Events: 1,750 events
Fines: USD18 Bn
Imprisonment: 150,000 months
Entities: (including individuals and organizations): 3K

India
Events: 510 events
Fines: USD45 Mn
Imprisonment: 3,800 months
Entities: (including individuals and organizations): 400

South Africa
Events: 120 events
Fines: USD32 Mn
Imprisonment: 20,090 months
Entities: (including individuals and organizations): 190

Screening

BSP Mandates Integration of Adverse Media Screening into Customer Due Diligence Framework

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) has taken a significant step to strengthen the country’s anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing regime by issuing Memorandum No. M-2025-017 on May 27. The directive mandates all...

IDAHOT 2024: freedom and equal rights in Europe | News item

Together with the Council of Europe, the Netherlands is hosting the European IDAHOT+ Forum in The Hague from 14 to 16 May. The forum is an important conference on the position and human...

ESG

US Lobbying Groups Target EU Corporate Accountability Law

As Europe emerges from a devastating heat wave, the European Parliament should reject efforts, including by industry groups in the United States, to weaken the European Union’s flagship corporate accountability law and its measures to tackle climate change. The 2024 EU law, called the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, requires large companies operating in the EU to identify and address human rights and environmental harms in their operations and supply chains. Unfortunately, lobbying by European and US companies, including the American Chamber of Commerce to the EU, has heavily influenced the European Commission’s “Omnibus proposal,” which would substantially weaken key provisions of the law, making it harder for victims of rights...

Crypto

Examination of the Regulatory Systems Related to Cryptoassets

Japanese July 4, 2025 Financial Services Agency (Japanese version: published April 10, 2025) 1.Summary The Financial Services Agency (FSA) has conducted an examination of the state of regulatory systems related to cryptoassets, based on the current actual state...

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Maryland Woman Charged with Tax Refund Fraud

A federal grand jury in Baltimore, Maryland, returned an indictment, unsealed late last week,...

Annual Compliance Conference summary: Keynote Speaker Session with Baroness Margaret Hodge

At the Annual Compliance conference recently held in London, we were honoured to hear from Baroness Hodge at our Annual Compliance Conference. Baroness Hodge offered a candid and comprehensive overview of the UK’s...

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Sanctions Notice – Chemical Weapons

Please be advised that the following individuals/entities have been designated under the Chemical Weapons (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019...

Human Rights

South Korea: Older Workers’ Low-Paid, Precarious Work

South Korea’s age-based employment laws and policies discriminate against...

A Year On, Guinean Activists Still Missing

(Nairobi) – Guinea’s military authorities should credibly investigate the...

Annual Compliance Conference summary: US and UK Enforcement in the Current Climate

At the Annual Compliance conference recently held in London,...

European Court of Human Rights: Russia responsible for downing of flight MH17

On 9 July 2025 the European Court of Human...

AI / ML

Exploring data and its influence on political behavior

Data and politics are becoming increasingly intertwined. Today’s political...

Celebrating an academic-industry collaboration to advance vehicle technology | MIT News

On May 6, MIT AgeLab’s Advanced Vehicle Technology (AVT)...

Helping machines understand visual content with AI

Data should drive every decision a modern business makes....

Teaching AI models what they don’t know

Artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT provide plausible-sounding answers to...

3 Questions: How to help students recognize potential bias in their AI datasets

Every year, thousands of students take courses that teach...

Maryland Woman Charged with Tax Refund Fraud

A federal grand jury in Baltimore, Maryland, returned an indictment, unsealed late last week, charging a Maryland woman with tax fraud, theft of government...

UN Funding Crisis Threatens Work of Human Rights Council

Today, the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) expressed concern at the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights’ announcement that certain activities mandated by the council...

South Korea: Older Workers’ Low-Paid, Precarious Work

South Korea’s age-based employment laws and policies discriminate against older workers, forcing them to retire from main jobs and into low-paid, precarious work.Inadequate social...

A Year On, Guinean Activists Still Missing

(Nairobi) – Guinea’s military authorities should credibly investigate the disappearances of two political activists, make their whereabouts known, and either charge them with a...

Annual Compliance Conference summary: US and UK Enforcement in the Current Climate

At the Annual Compliance conference recently held in London, the session on ‘US and UK Enforcement in the Current Climate: Strategic Shifts and Global...

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