Industries
Explore AML/CFT regulation, enforcement, compliance developments and financial crime risks by industry. This section helps professionals follow developments affecting their own sectors and understand how regulatory expectations differ across financial and non-financial businesses.
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FlowShield Research Combines Fund-Flow Tracking and LLMs for Crypto AML Detection
A new research preprint proposes a cryptocurrency anti-money laundering framework that combines transaction semantics, fund-flow reconstruction, graph learning and large language models to detect laundering…
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RUSI Maps North Korea’s Crypto-to-Fiat Laundering Vulnerabilities and Compliance Responses
A new research paper from the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) examines how North Korea converts stolen virtual assets into fiat currency, highlighting the point…
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Fintel Alliance Finds Coordinated Mortgage Fraud Across Major Australian Banks
AUSTRAC’s Fintel Alliance has identified coordinated mortgage fraud and systemic weaknesses across Australia’s lending sector after analysing data from 10 major banks. According to AUSTRAC,…
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China Tightens Tax Rules on Offshore Trusts as Cross-Border Wealth Scrutiny Expands
China has brought offshore trusts directly into its individual income tax framework, requiring taxpayers to report and pay tax both when assets are transferred into…
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SEC Proposes Regulation Crypto Assets With New Offering Exemptions and Safe Harbor
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed a new regulatory framework for certain investment contracts involving crypto assets, creating tailored pathways for issuers to…
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Saudi Banks Apply Enhanced AML Checks to UAE-Bound Transfers, Reuters Reports
Saudi banks have begun applying additional anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing checks to transfers destined for the United Arab Emirates, according to a Reuters report…
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Verto Adopts Flagright for Real-Time AML Monitoring Across Global Payments
Global payments and foreign-exchange provider Verto has selected Flagright to strengthen real-time transaction monitoring across its payments and FX infrastructure, as the company expands across…
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U.S. Treasury Opens New GENIUS Act Rulemaking on Stablecoin Issuance
The U.S. Department of the Treasury on 17 August 2026 opened a new notice of proposed rulemaking under the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for…
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Binance Data Disclosure to Russian Authorities Raises Cross-Border Compliance Questions
Binance provided Russian investigators with customer identity documents and transaction records that were later used in a terrorism-financing case against a Russian IT specialist who…
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World Liberty Trust Receives Preliminary OCC Approval for National Trust Bank Charter
The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has granted preliminary conditional approval to World Liberty Trust Company, N.A. for a national trust bank…
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