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FATF says FIUs must be a national centre for the receipt and analysis of suspicious transaction reports (STRs) and other information linked to ML, associated predicate offences and terrorist/proliferation financing, and disseminate that analysis. FIUs should be able to obtain additional information from obliged entities, and access relevant financial, administrative and law enforcement data.…

The USA-based National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) last November (2024) released a report saying it would formally advise against the use (‘deprecate’) of certain existing digital signature algorithms from 2030 – ECDSA, EdDSA and the RSA (1). It will do the same for certain key-establishment schemes – Finite Field DH and MQV; Elliptic Curve DH and MQC; and RSA.…

While Ukraine battles an invading Russian enemy currently occupying approximately 18% of Ukrainian territory (1), it is also focused on its battle with the ‘enemy within’, namely elevated levels of corruption and other commercial crime. 

Since the Revolution of Dignity in 2014, Ukraine’s pro-Western authorities have worked tirelessly to align themselves with European Union (EU) anti-corruption and anti-fraud efforts, notably establishing the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) in 2014, which prepares corruption cases for prosecution by a Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office.…

The Chinese auditing unit of accounting giant PwC has been fined a record Chinese Yuan Renminbi CNY441 million (USD62.7 million) and banned from auditing in mainland China for six months after a regulator concluded it had “covered up and even condoned” fraud.…

Confectionery and related ingredient sales between the European Union (EU) and the Mercosur countries of south America are set to rise after a trade agreement between the two blocs was finalised. A deal in principle had been held over since 2019 while details were ironed out, but these have now been resolved.…

Financial institutions, social media platforms and regulators are meeting to boost data sharing and collaboration to counter the international surge in fraud. Paul Cochrane reports on the Global Anti-Scam Summit (GASS) Americas 2024.

Fraud is on an upward trajectory, with an estimated USD1.03 trillion lost globally to swindles over the past year, according to the 2024 Global State of Scams report by the Global Anti-Scam Alliance and anti-fraud tech company Feedzai (1).…

The UK countryside is not generally regarded as a cradle of innovation. However, business data and the increased visibility of rural business thanks to social media indicate that countryside entrepreneurship is emerging as a major contributor to the domestic start-up sector.…

The UK countryside is not generally regarded as a cradle of innovation. However, business data and the increased visibility of rural business thanks to social media indicate that countryside entrepreneurship is emerging as a major contributor to the domestic start-up sector.…

The European Union (EU) has further broadened its sanctions targeting Russia to increase pressure on its government, as the fall of its ally in Syria weakens Moscow’s geopolitical position. EU ministers have now sanctioned Chinese suppliers of the Russian invasion in Ukraine, Russian crude oil suppliers and an airline, as well as companies alleged to be spreading disinformation in Africa and elsewhere.…