Compliance Officers Playbook

French authorities have launched a formal investigation into Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, alleging money laundering, tax fraud, and other offences spanning 2019-2024. This fol...

28 Jan 202516min

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) issued a "Dear CEO" letter outlining its two-year strategy for supervising wholesale brokers in the UK. Key concerns include broker misconduct, inadequate financi...

28 Jan 202534min

Paul Hottinger, a member of a prominent Swiss banking family, is facing trial in France for tax fraud and money laundering. He allegedly concealed millions of euros in income by falsely claiming Swiss...

28 Jan 202516min

This episode provides a guide for creating effective Suspicious Activity/Transaction Reports (SAR/STRs) to help law enforcement. Key elements highlighted include detailed transaction information, clea...

28 Jan 20256min

This episode discusses the rapid advancements in artificial intelligence, specifically large language models (LLMs), by a Chinese company called DeepSeek. DeepSeek's significantly cheaper and open-sou...

27 Jan 202520min

This episode discusses Klarna's CEO, Sebastian Siemiatkowski's, claim that AI can perform all human tasks, leading Klarna to halt hiring and reduce its workforce by 1,000 employees while increasing bu...

27 Jan 202512min

a January 2025 UKFIU Reporter Booklet, summarises feedback from law enforcement agencies on their use of Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) in the UK. It includes sanitised case studies illustrating h...

27 Jan 202517min

A large-scale, multinational investigation, supported by Eurojust and Europol, successfully disrupted a sophisticated money laundering operation. The criminal group, based primarily in Spain and Cypru...

27 Jan 202510min