A New Regime
This week, from the U.S sanctions against SUEX OTC, the first time the Treasury Department has...
A Universal Downgrade
This week, the Basel Institute on Governance published the 10th annual edition of the Basel AML...
Never Again.
Today, we mark the 20th anniversary of September 11th, 2001. With 33.2% of the world’s population...
KYI - Know Your Influencer
Last month, the Council on Foreign Relations reported that an arrest warrant issued by U.S. law...
Extended Sanctions Risk
Not everybody has a glass-half-full kind of mentality, but when it comes to ownership by sanctioned...
Where Do We Go From Here?
This week, with the world’s eyes on Kabul, the Group of 7 announced that they agreed on a plan to...
Afghanistan and the March of Time
I served as the U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Attache to Afghanistan during the eighth,...
How Compliance Professionals Should Be Thinking About Afghanistan
From a financial crime perspective, financial institutions, fintechs, and others should proactively...
Out of the Shadows
Earlier this week, cryptocurrency found itself at the center of a heated U.S. Congressional debate...
Canary in the [Gold] Mine
This week, Monzo, an early fintech unicorn, disclosed in its annual report that it is facing a...
The Bulgarian Banksy
Last month, the U.S. State Department and U.S. The Treasury Department sanctioned Vassil Bojkov, a...
Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs)
A Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) is a report made by a regulated institution in a variety of...
It’s Not Me, It’s €.U
This month, the European Union revealed its plan to set up a new agency, the Anti-Money Laundering...
The World [Is Not Enough]
Every day, millions of articles are published to the Internet across multiple platforms, languages...
The Financial Action [Tech] Force
Last week, following its latest plenary, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the global AML...
Global News Coverage
What if you need the latest about business developments in Mongolia or better continuous monitoring...
Unparalleled Global Coverage and Configurability
In addition to unrivaled coverage and configurability, Sigma News is now further aligned to recent...
Getting The Priorities Straight
This week, the U.S. Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) released the inaugural...
Trade-Based Money Laundering
One might imagine the surprise a Customs Official has when viewing an invoice for toilet paper...
What Is an AML Analyst?
An alert in a bank’s transaction monitoring system notifies that there is a large amount of money...
ESG: Enabling Solid Governance
Last week, Reuters reported that investor groups have asked for more ESG disclosures from the US...
