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California Man Sentenced in Connection With Cross-Country Money Laundering Conspiracy

Baltimore, Maryland – A federal judge sentenced a...

Former Federal Law Enforcement Officer Agrees to Plead Guilty

BOSTON – A former U.S. Postal Inspector...

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Graham’s Final Legislative Push: Senate Nears Vote on Sweeping Russia Sanctions Bill

The Senate's path toward a long-stalled Russia sanctions package accelerated dramatically in July, propelled by an unusual combination of bipartisan negotiation, a last-minute White...

Scoular’s Border Bribery Case Puts Cartel Nexus at the Center of FCPA Enforcement

The Justice Department's first deferred prosecution agreement of 2026 under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act arrived with a twist that anti-corruption practitioners have been...

Feeding Our Future Fugitive’s Return Puts Shell-Company Fraud Architecture Back in the Spotlight

The extradition of Abdikerm Eidleh from Somalia to Minnesota in mid-July, four years after the Justice Department first unsealed charges in what it has...

FATF: Stablecoins Have Overtaken Other Crypto Assets as Criminals’ Preferred Laundering Rail

The Financial Action Task Force's seventh targeted update on virtual assets, published July 16 at the opening of the United Kingdom's incoming FATF presidency,...

Dhaka’s Reckoning: Tk76,000 Crore Frozen in Ousted Prime Minister’s Laundering Probe

A press briefing at Bangladesh Bank headquarters in mid-July put a concrete figure on the scale of the country's ongoing reckoning with politically exposed...

Compliance Teams Cross the Adoption Threshold on AI Agents, Industry Survey Finds

A comprehensive practitioner survey released in mid-July by identity and financial-crime research firm Liminal supplies the clearest quantitative evidence to date that artificial intelligence...

The Charter Rush: Fintechs Trade Sponsor-Bank Dependence for Direct OCC Oversight

A quiet but structurally significant shift in how fintech companies access the U.S. banking system has accelerated through the first half of 2026, with...

Federal Reserve Joins the Rewrite of America’s AML Program Architecture

The Federal Reserve's Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, published in the Federal Register on July 9, closes a gap that had left Board-supervised banks as...

Former Chinese Official Sentenced to Death in One of the Country’s Largest Bribery Cases

A Chinese court has sentenced former Nanjing city official Yang Youlin to death after convicting him of accepting more than 2.2 billion yuan (approximately...

Former Sri Lankan Minister Indicted Over Alleged Misuse of State Resources for Political Gain

Former Sri Lankan Minister S.M. Chandrasena appeared before the Colombo High Court after the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) formally...

UK Parliament Approves Major AML Reforms to Strengthen Financial Crime Controls While Easing Compliance Burdens

The UK Parliament has approved the Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (Amendment) Regulations 2026, introducing a package of 15 targeted reforms aimed at strengthening...

FATF’s UK Presidency Opens With a Fraud-First Mandate and a Reshuffled Grey List

The Financial Action Task Force's leadership transition became formal on July 1, as Giles Thomson of the United Kingdom assumed the FATF presidency for...

EagleBank’s Decade-Long Compliance Blind Spot Ends in $9.7 Million Reckoning

A non-prosecution agreement unveiled at the end of June between the Justice Department and EagleBank has surfaced one of the more uncomfortable case studies...

Gojek Co-Founder Nadiem Makarim Sentenced to 10 Years in Landmark Corruption Case, Sparking Political Debate in Indonesia

In one of Indonesia's most closely watched corruption cases involving a prominent technology entrepreneur, former Education Minister and Gojek co-founder Nadiem Makarim has been...

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