Tagged: financial crime

Financial Crime Prevention Firm Themis Introduces Compliance Solution in Saudi Arabia

Themis, a global firm that’s focused on financial crime prevention, announces the official launch of Tathabbat. This reportedly marks an important step in Saudi Arabia’s fast-growing compliance landscape, aligning with Vision 2030 as well as the Middle Eastern nation’s ongoing push to adopt innovative Know-Your-Finance… Read More

TRM Labs Shares Insights After Ilya Lichtenstein Sentenced For Roles In Bitfinex Hack As Government Recovers $10B in Stolen Assets

Ilya Lichtenstein was sentenced to 60 months for his alleged role in laundering more than 120,000 Bitcoin, which was reportedly stolen from the crypto exchange Bitfinex in 2016. This was the sentence recommended by Department of Justice (DOJ) attorney Jessica Peck. Lichtenstein’s wife, Heather “Razzlekhan” Morgan, is… Read More

Financial Crime Report: Over $1 Trillion Lost to Scams in One Year

Feedzai, the RiskOps platform for financial risk management, in partnership with the Global Anti-Scam Alliance (GASA), releases the 2024 Global State of Scams Report. The study reveals scams have siphoned off US$1.03 trillion globally over the past year, with US victims seeing the “largest impact… Read More

Consumer and Retail Fraud Increased by Nearly 20% According to Crime Survey for England and Wales

Crime experienced by individuals and households has generally decreased over the last 10 years with some notable exceptions. Latest estimates from the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) showed that there were an “estimated 9.2 million incidents of headline crime” (which includes theft, robbery,… Read More

Fraud Prevention Solutions Provider Feedzai Teams Up with PwC to Combat Financial Crime

Feedzai, a provider of risk management and fraud prevention solutions, and PwC, a global consulting firm, have joined forces to establish a Center of Excellence (CoE) dedicated to fighting financial crime. This partnership enhances the delivery of solutions to financial institutions, enabling them to protect… Read More

Hummingbird Acquires LogicLoop to Enhance Financial Crime Solutions

Hummingbird, a provider of financial crime risk management solutions, has acquired LogicLoop, a no-code data integration and automation platform, in a move aimed at transforming how financial institutions handle risk and compliance. The acquisition is part of Hummingbird’s broader strategy to become the core operating… Read More

Oracle Cloud Service to Assist Banks with Reliably Identifying Financial Crime Risk

Oracle announced Oracle Financial Crime and Compliance (FCCM) Management Monitor Cloud Service. With the new solution banks, fintechs, and other financial services companies can “gain a holistic, centralized view of their FCCM efforts, enabling them to identify potential issues faster and, proactively manage risk to… Read More

TRON, Tether, TRM Labs Form Financial Crime Unit to Combat Crypto Crime

TRON, Tether, and TRM Labs have announced they will be joining forces to establish the T3 Financial Crime Unit (T3 FCU), described as a first-of-its-kind initiative aimed at facilitating public-private collaboration to combat illicit activity associated with the use of USDT on the TRON blockchain…. Read More

Chainalysis Reports Decline in Illicit Transactions On-Chain Despite Rise in Stolen Funds and Ransomware

Chainalysis has released the report, entitled 2024 Crypto Crime Mid-year Update Part 1: Cybercrime Climbs as Exchange Thieves and Ransomware Attackers Grow Bolder As noted in the report from Chainalysis, aggregate illicit activity on-chain “has dropped by almost 20% year-to-date, demonstrating that legitimate activity is… Read More

Core Banking Platform Tuum Teams Up with Regtech ComplyAdvantage

Tuum, a core banking platform, is proud to announce its partnership with ComplyAdvantage, a firm focused on financial crime intelligence. This partnership leverages Tuum’s API-first approach in order “to integrate complementary solutions, ensuring that financial institutions can meet their unique needs effectively and efficiently with… Read More

US and German Law Enforcement Agencies Seize Virtual Currency Wallet Cryptonator, Charge Administrator – Report

IRS-Criminal Investigation, the US Department of Justice, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation in coordination with the German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) and the Attorney General’s Office in Frankfurt, reportedly seized the domain for online crypto wallet Cryptonator for allegedly failing to have “appropriate”… Read More

ThetaRay Announces Acquisition of Screena, a European Screening Firm

ThetaRay, an AI-powered financial crime detection firm, has announced the acquisition of European screening company, Screena. The acquisition is being described as demonstrating ThetaRay’s continuous investment “in proprietary technology and reaffirms its mission of enabling banks, fintechs, and regulators to detect financial crime with state-of-the-art… Read More

Feedzai’s AI-based Fraud Management Solution Leveraged By European Fintech STET

Feedzai and STET, a European company focused on payment market infrastructures, which processed more than 35 billion transactions in 2023, are working together “to offer concrete and innovative solutions to financial institutions to help them in the fight to protect their customers from payment fraud.” Feedzai’s… Read More

Singapore Releases Environmental Crimes Money Laundering National Risk Assessment

Singapore recently released the Environmental Crimes Money Laundering (ML) National Risk Assessment (NRA) which identifies the key threats and vulnerabilities in environmental crimes ML that Singapore “is exposed to, and outlines mitigation measures which government agencies, financial institutions (FIs) and Designated Non-Financial Businesses and Professionals… Read More

FATF, Interpol, UNODC Say Urgent Action Required to Prevent Money Laundering and Other Illicit Activities

Countries need to urgently step up their efforts to target the huge illicit profits generated by transnational organized crime that facilitate conflicts, fund terrorism, and negatively impact vulnerable populations, according to an update shared by FATF. This was the unprecedented call to action from the… Read More

Malware Impacting Mobile Banking Apps Continues to Pose Significant Risks to Consumers – Report

Kaspersky has released its annual Financial Threats Report for 2023, offering a detailed analysis of the evolving financial cyber threat landscape. The report reveals significant “increases in mobile banking malware and cryptocurrency-related phishing, signaling growing threats to digital financial assets.” 2023 witnessed a substantial rise… Read More

Chainalysis Analyzes London Metropolitan Police’s Disruption of Phishing as a Service Provider LabHost

On April 17, 2024, London’s Metropolitan Police had announced the disruption of LabHost, which is described in an update by Chainalysis as a “notorious” phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) provider that enabled cybercriminals to “breach the bank accounts of victims around the world, following an operation conducted in… Read More

Mango Markets Exploiter Found Guilty of Fraudulently Obtaining $110M in Crypto by Manipulating Perpetual Futures Contracts

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The United States Justice Department is reporting its first cryptocurrency open-market manipulation case. A federal jury in New York has now “convicted a man residing in Puerto Rico of commodities fraud, commodities market manipulation, and wire fraud in connection with the manipulation on the Mango… Read More

Form3 and Feedzai Introduce APP Fraud Solution for UK Market

Form3, the cloud-native account-to-account platform, launches a new, innovative authorised push payment fraud (APP fraud) prevention solution, powered by Feedzai, the firm focused on anti-fraud and financial crime software. The new product is the first solution, “built using fully supervised machine learning, to leverage collaborative… Read More

Bank of Ireland Warns that Money-Muling May Lead to Criminal Record and Impact Travel or Employment Prospects

Bank of Ireland is warning that ‘money-muling’ – or allowing a bank account to be used to transfer stolen money for a fee – can lead to a criminal record and impact travel or employment prospects. The warning comes as some students “will be planning… Read More

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