Financial Crime

Financial crime is defined as crime that is specifically committed against property. These crimes are almost always committed for the personal benefit of the criminal, and they involve an illegal conversion of ownership of the property that is involved.

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Starling Fined $38 Million for ‘Shockingly Lax’ Crime Controls
Starling Fined $38 Million for ‘Shockingly Lax’ Crime Controls
October 02, 2024  |  Bank Regulation

Starling Bank has been fined 29 million pounds ($38 million) for failing to implement proper financial crime controls. The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) announced the penalty against...

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FDIC Consent Orders Show Internal and External Risk Exposure
FDIC Consent Orders Show Internal and External Risk Exposure
September 27, 2024  |  Security & Fraud

A spate of recent enforcement decisions from the FDIC underscores risks that banks face — external as well as internal ones, where employees have allegedly...

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FinCEN Says ABLV Bank No Longer of Primary Money Laundering Concern
FinCEN Says ABLV Bank No Longer of Primary Money Laundering Concern
September 26, 2024  |  AML

The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has withdrawn its finding that ABLV Bank, AS is a financial institution of primary money laundering concern, because the...

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Prosecutors to Consider Companies’ Use of AI When Assessing Compliance Programs
Prosecutors to Consider Companies’ Use of AI When Assessing Compliance Programs
September 24, 2024  |  artificial intelligence

Companies’ use of artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the things prosecutors will look at when assessing their compliance programs during investigations of criminal offenses...

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Caroline Ellison Gets 2 Years in Prison for Role in FTX Collapse
Caroline Ellison Gets 2 Years in Prison for Role in FTX Collapse
September 24, 2024  |  Legal

Caroline Ellison, the former executive who played a role in the collapse of the FTX crypto exchange and later became the star witness in the...

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Oracle Launches Financial Crime and Compliance Management Service
Oracle Launches Financial Crime and Compliance Management Service
September 17, 2024  |  Security & Fraud

Oracle has launched a new service designed to help banks, FinTechs and other financial services companies identify potential financial crime and compliance issues and reduce...

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FinCEN Says Check Fraud Approached $700 Million Over 6 Months
FinCEN Says Check Fraud Approached $700 Million Over 6 Months
September 11, 2024  |  Security & Fraud

Earlier this week, FinCEN reported that mail theft-related check fraud amounted to more than $688 million in a recent six-month period. The bulk of the...

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Unregistered Crypto ATMs Lead to Landmark UK Prosecution 
Unregistered Crypto ATMs Lead to Landmark UK Prosecution 
September 10, 2024  |  Legal

A British regulator has charged a London man for operating several unlicensed crypto ATMs. Olumide Osunkoya, 45, has been charged with a running series of...

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New AI System Aims to Detect Financial Fraud Across Corporate Networks
New AI System Aims to Detect Financial Fraud Across Corporate Networks
September 06, 2024  |  Fraud Prevention

Researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) system to detect accounting fraud within individual companies and across supply chains and industries. The machine learning...

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