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The reporting duties, screening controls and enforcement regimes that financial institutions operate to detect and disrupt the movement of criminal proceeds.
Unit21 now lets analysts block cards in Corelation's KeyStone core from inside a case, and Corelation has more than 300 credit union clients. The 300 is Corelation's client list, and the companies did not say how many have the feed running.
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FIS has made its AML investigations agent, built with Anthropic, available to any US bank, with Amalgamated Bank deploying it. The performance figures so far are the bank's projections, including a 98% cut in Level 2 case time.
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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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Treasury fined Bank of America $1.2 billion over anti-money laundering and sanctions failures, the third-largest penalty in its history. The bank says it has invested billions in compliance. The case tests how far spending alone protects a large bank.
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Britain sanctioned Cryptomus, also operating as Heleket, on October 8, freezing its assets at UK banks and barring British firms from dealing with it. Canada's CAD $176 million fine did not stop the platform; analyst Richard Sanders says sanctions do.
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European Parliament adopted a nonbinding call for the Commission's end-2026 anti-corruption strategy to cover crypto assets and hidden ownership. It imposes no new duties on crypto firms, crypto.news reported, so what they spend depends on the Commission's text.
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Senator Richard Blumenthal's staff found that 84% of 846 sanctioned, terror-linked wallets relied heavily on Tether's USDT. He wants Treasury and Justice to examine Tether's sanctions and money-laundering controls, though neither agency has yet announced an inquiry.
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Korea's finance ministry proposed licensing crypto moves between Korean exchanges and overseas providers or private wallets, with a two-person staffing floor. Registration is cheap, so the cost to operators lies in filing transfer records for state investigators.
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Senate Democratic staff found 84% of 846 Iran-linked sanctioned wallets moved almost only in Tether's USDT. Most came from Israel's list, and any penalty rests with a Treasury and Justice Department that Senator Blumenthal says have enforced nothing.
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FinCEN withdrew its proposal to make about 15,000 institutions report foreign crypto mixer transactions, work it estimated at 1.47 million hours a year. Banks keep their general duty to report suspicious activity, so mixer exposure stays a monitoring job without its own form.
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OFAC designated A7, a Russia-linked payments network that reportedly settled over $86 billion in its first year, a transnational criminal organization. FinCEN's same-day proposal to bar transfers through A7's sub-agents gives banks and crypto firms a new screening job aimed at intermediaries.
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Senate staff say Tether froze 5 of 39 Hezbollah-linked wallets Israel named in 2023 while $34.6 million left the rest. Treasury and the Justice Department can act on that freeze record more readily than on the report's 84% USDT share when they answer Blumenthal by Oct. 9.
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Federal Reserve proposals charge stablecoin issuers 2% capital on their first $20 billion, falling to 1% above $50 billion. Comments over the next 60 days are the main chance to contest a schedule built for operational losses before rules take effect in January 2027.
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The notice alleges $1.8bn moved for 103 companies over thirty months. The Emirati central bank ordered a forensic review inside a day, which is where the real cost of a designation lands, well before any rule is final.
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The Wall Street Journal reported that Checkout.com blocked most Polymarket US card deposits at February's peak, and the controls that pulled fraud back to normal by May were a cap on cards per account and an outside vendor.
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Federal Reserve proposals would require $1 of reserves behind every bank-issued stablecoin dollar and redemption within two business days. Banks considering an issuer would also carry a tiered capital charge that starts at 2% of coins outstanding.
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BitMEX is charging verified users $50 a month, or 1% a year if greater, on balances left after it closed its exchange on September 23. Below $60,000 the flat charge sets the rate, so a $1,000 balance loses 60% a year.
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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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A civil forfeiture filed on September 14 names Blessed Trust and Hexa Whale Trading, two Hong Kong entities whose Binance accounts ran about $1.69bn of volume while the exchange sat under a compliance monitor.
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Global turnover in Japan's yen stablecoin ran $64,571 the day before Upbit listed it and $32.49 million three days later. Korea's own stablecoin law is still stalled, so the token trades there as ordinary crypto.
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