This week, John and Elliot discuss a new report from the FACT Coalition, Money Laundering from Environmental Crime: Typologies and Trends in Countries in the Amazon Region, new guidance issued by the Bureau of Industry and Security about compliance with Export Administration Regulations, new sanctions issued by the US and Canada against a sham charity fundraising for the PFLP, a reminder from IRS about the Tax-Exempt Organization Search (TEOS) tool and making safe charitable contributions, and several other items impacting the financial crime prevention community.

This week, John and Elliot discuss a new report from the UN Office of Drugs and Crime on Transnational Organized Crime and the Convergence of Cyber-Enabled Fraud, Underground Banking, and Technological Innovation: A Shifting Threat Landscape, an article on the use of cryptocurrencies in election disinformation, FCA’s recent fining of Starling Bank over its failure to have an adequate financial crime prevention program, the latest US sanctions of Hamas and several other items impacting the financial crime prevention community.

We spoke to Guy Ficco, Chief of IRS:CI, about his first six months in the position, IRS:CI's international activities, multi-agency outreach activities about fentanyl, and the continuing challenges of the increase in frauds.

This week, John and Elliot discuss a program rule comment letter from The Wolfsberg Group, new guidance on corporate compliance programs from the US Department of Justice, proposed anti-corruption legislation in the US Senate, the FBI’s new online Crime Datta Explorer, and several other items impacting the financial crime prevention community.

This week, John and Elliot discuss a release from the G7 on preventing the evasion of Russian sanctions and export controls, reported payments for Yevgeny Prigozhin made through Western banks, FATF’s report on its recent mutual evaluation of India, the Financial Conduct Authority’s recent insights on fraud, and several other items impacting the financial crime prevention community.

Julia Yansura, Project Director for the FACT Coalition, discusses the new policy brief, Environmental Crimes Pose Unique Illicit Finance Challenges.

This week, Elliot and Joe McNamara discuss new proposed FDIC regulations regarding recordkeeping for custodial deposit accounts, supervision of crypto ATMs in the UK, money laundering risks in the art world, casinos in Australia, and other items impacting the financial crime prevention community.

We spoke to Deborah Lehr, Chairman of the Board, and Tess Davis, Executive Director of the Antiquities Coalition, about the importance of detecting, identifying, reporting, and understanding how cultural artifacts can be used to move illicit funds.

This week, John and Elliot discuss several federal indictments relating to terrorism announced by the DOJ, a Financial Trend Analysis on mail theft check fraud from FinCEN, a Cryptocurrency Fraud Report from the FBI, a Data Spotlight about Bitcoin ATMs from the FTC, and several other items impacting the financial crime prevention community. They also commemorate the 23rd anniversary of 9/11.

Vesna McCreery sits with AML experts David Harley and Adrian Quigley to discuss AML compliance in the UK and the EU. They also look at how these regimes differ from the requirements in the US and Australia.