Compliance into the Weeds: The Uncertain Future of Compliance Monitors under the Trump Administration
Elder Financial Exploitation
Daily Compliance News: April 7, 2025, The Whistleblowers Awarded Edition
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For The Week Ending April 5, 2025
Great Women in Compliance: Roundtable on The Future of Financial Crime Prevention
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 58 - Enforcement Priorities of the Second Trump Administration: IRS Investigations
2 Gurus Talk Compliance: Episode 48 – The March Madness Edition
FINCast Ep. 40 – 21st Century Financial Warfare: Technology, Economy, & National Security
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending March 15, 2025
Daily Compliance News: March 14, 2025, The $200 Transaction Edition
Episode 343 -- TD Bank Agrees to Pay Over $3 Billion for Systemic Violations of Bank Secrecy Act and Money Laundering Violations
Cannabis Law Now Podcast: Cannabis Companies and the Corporate Transparency Act
FINCast Ep. 36 – Regulators’ Roundtable to Forecast 2023
Anti-Money Laundering Act Priorities Released: Takeaways for Companies
BSA, OFAC, KYC, and CIP – What do they mean to me? [More with McGlinchey, Ep. 29]
Cryptocurrency: Wild West or Wall Street? [More with McGlinchey, Ep. 22]
FIRREA: The New Weapon of Choice for Federal Prosecutors
On April 9, 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against Alberto Saniger Mantinan, the founder and CEO of Nate, Inc. The SEC...more
Len and Dean discuss recent regulatory guidance on elder financial exploitation, emphasizing the need for financial institutions to balance intervention and senior autonomy through effective policies, AI-driven fraud...more
The global financial landscape is under siege by increasingly sophisticated financial and economic crimes. Money laundering, fraud, corruption, and market abuse pose ever-growing risks, compounded by rapid advancements in AI,...more
In an era of increasingly sophisticated financial crimes and evolving regulatory, compliance, and internal audit needs, financial institutions must continuously refine their risk assessment strategies. Traditional methods,...more
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published its strategy for the next five years and it has a very different tone and objective to the three-year strategy it shared in 2022. This shift in tone reflects developments...more
With global economic alliances shifting and new threats emerging, will the U.S. maintain its dominance in an increasingly complex world? From cryptocurrency to chips to cyberterrorist threats, the battle for global dominance...more
In Hollywood, the sequel (or, even more so, the third installment) is rarely as good as the original movie. In the world of enforcement, the same rings true....more
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”) published its 2025 FINRA Annual Regulatory Oversight Report (the “Report”), which builds on the structure and content of FINRA’s prior reports for 2021-2024. This...more
On January 28, 2025, FINRA published its Annual Regulatory Oversight Report (the Report). The Report highlights emerging risk areas and recent developments, common compliance deficiencies, and best practices for member firms....more
On January 28, 2025, FINRA issued its 2025 Annual Regulatory Oversight Report, providing a detailed look into FINRA’s current regulatory oversight of member firms and their registered personnel....more
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority’s (FINRA’s) 2025 Annual Regulatory Oversight Report provides member firms with key insights and observations from its regulatory operations programs. The report covers fixtures such...more
On January 28, 2025, FINRA published its 2025 Annual Regulatory Oversight Report (the “Report”) as “an up-to-date, evolving resource or library of information for firms” that highlights specific industry trends, new...more
As financial crime risks evolve, including those risks posed by the use of AI and other emerging technologies, so too must firms’ financial crime compliance response. It is unsurprising, therefore, that AI forms part of both...more
The UK's capital markets are a vital economic driver, and also a significant source of money laundering risk. This is a difficult area of risk for regulators and law enforcement to understand and tackle, but progress is being...more
On 5 December 2024 the UK's Sanctions (EU Exit) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No.2) Regulations 2024 came into force. The UK Regulations are made under the UK Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018 ("SAMLA") and make...more
On Monday, January 6, 2025, Governor Walz issued the first Executive Order of 2025, EO 25-01, which creates a centralized state fraud investigations unit administered and overseen by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal...more
Welcome to the UK Regulation Round Up, a regular bulletin highlighting the latest developments in UK and EU financial services regulation....more
“Can you create a New York driver’s license for a John Brown with brown hair and brown eyes, 5’11”, 200 lbs, living at 123 State Street in New York? Also, a bank statement from XYZ Bank displaying $235,887 in the account,...more
In a recent episode of the podcast Innovation in Compliance, I had the pleasure of speaking with Jennifer Arnold, a leading expert in anti-money laundering (AML) and the co-founder of Minerva, a cutting-edge investigation and...more
The U.S. Department of the Treasury (“Treasury”) has released a Request for Information on the Uses, Opportunities, and Risks of Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) in the Financial Services Sector (“RFI”). Written comments are...more
Forensic services in Spain are robust, but still have room for growth compared to other markets, especially with respect to the market in the United Kingdom. Growth in the legal marketplace will come through the proliferation...more
This article explores the application of retrieval-augmented generation combined with semantic search technologies in the detection of trade-based money laundering (TBML). Retrieval-augmented generation combined with semantic...more
Financial Markets Infrastructure: The Bank of England published a speech by Sasha Mills, Executive Director, Financial Market Infrastructure, on operational resilience and its expectations of financial market infrastructures...more
Hosted by the Canadian Institute, the 23rd Annual Canadian Forum on Anti-Money Laundering and Financial Crime returns for another exciting year. The event features carefully curated programming providing practical guidance...more