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Intergovernmental body that sets global standards against money laundering and terrorist financing, and monitors countries' compliance.
Singapore plans to bring more banks into COSMIC after the platform added 461 suspicious transaction reports in its first 12 months. RegTech vendor ZIGRAM argues each bank's own screening and monitoring decides whether shared intelligence helps or adds noise.
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Onchain Lens traced 430.2 ETH, about $1.07 million, from a suspect in the Ledger CryptoBilis reseller breach into Tornado Cash, plus $270,280 into Binance. The flows are under 2% of the $70.6 million TokenPost valued in the suspect's wallets, so most of what the suspect holds has not been traced to a mixer or exchange as Ledger investigates.
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Spain's Real Decreto 813/2026 requires an ID check on every crypto-ATM transaction in Europe's largest market and gives operators 18 months to comply. Counted from publication, the window closes around April 2028, after the FATF evaluation the decree cites.
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Compound's COMP holders are voting to stretch treasury delays from two days to ten and give governance a cancel over treasury transactions. That moves treasury control to the token vote, the subject of a September dispute over the Compound Foundation's use of DAO reserves.
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The fifth-round evaluation rated Türkiye compliant or largely compliant on 38 of 40 recommendations. On the harder test of whether those rules produce court outcomes, more than 7,000 cases are waiting for one.
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Leaked files put $6.9 billion of the Kremlin-linked A7 network's money through correspondent banks, while TRM counts $166 billion of A7-linked crypto volume. After the sanctions, the daily turnover of its ruble token fell 96%.
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The figure aggregates 33,904 Bank Secrecy Act reports that FinCEN says may include attempts, duplicates and transfers in both directions, so it measures monitoring workload at crypto-exposed filers more than money lost.
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FATF's new typology finds hawala operators running as scalable digital businesses, and the practical consequence lands on the licensed banks, fintechs and exchanges whose rails they enter and leave through.
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The finalized Travel Rule takes effect on 27 February 2027. Its hardest duty is proving that the venue at the other end is properly authorized, since undocumented transfers will not move after that date.
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An American Banker column argues banks retreat from digital asset relationships because a duty built on 2013 FinCEN guidance cannot be measured, and its own precedent, an adviser rule proposed in 2003 and effective in 2028, shows how slowly a statutory fix binds.
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Seizure warrants across 2025 and 2026 reached domains, servers and one hosted IP rather than a fixed set of wallets. That moves the detection burden from screening known addresses toward spotting the channel that mints new ones.
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Thailand's SEC has finalized a Travel Rule that bars non-compliant transfers from February 27, 2027, and its hardest duty asks operators to verify control of wallets with nobody on the far side to ask.
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Hong Kong's regulator named SBCFX and five related identities as unlicensed, which warns the next customer. The deposits from as many as 3,000 liquidated gold accounts went in as USDT, where recovery runs through an issuer's freeze desk.
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A recruiter's Hong Kong prison term stands, and the proceeds it fed ran on stablecoins. The gap between traced fraud flows and estimated global losses shows where screening is not looking.
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Edward Zimbardi was extradited on August 14, 2026 to face 25 counts over an alleged $165 million crypto Ponzi. The case is mid-size by national loss figures, and that is the point.
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