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  • Wednesday, 1 February, 2023
    Tax evasion and avoidance
    Thousands of offshore companies miss UK property register deadline

    List set up to tackle estimated £100bn of illicit financing often channelled through British real estate

  • Tuesday, 31 January, 2023
    News in-depthGambling industry
    Fall of Asia’s gambling kingpin augurs change for Macau industry

    Alvin Chau’s jailing comes as Beijing cracks down on money laundering and capital flight

  • Wednesday, 25 January, 2023
    White collar crime
    UK to make ‘failure to prevent fraud’ a criminal offence

    Government will target law firms and accountants in new bill

  • Thursday, 12 January, 2023
    Cryptocurrencies
    Crypto lender Nexo under investigation in Bulgaria

    Sofia prosecutor’s office says it is probing possible money laundering and other criminal offences

  • Tuesday, 13 December, 2022
    Danske Bank AS
    Danske Bank to pay $2bn penalty for defrauding US banks

    Denmark’s largest lender pleads guilty to resolve one of the biggest money-laundering scandals in years

  • Friday, 9 December, 2022
    Santander UK PLC
    Santander UK fined £108mn for anti-money laundering failures

    Bank’s poor management created ‘prolonged and severe risk’ of financial crime, says regulator

  • Saturday, 3 December, 2022
    UK crime
    UK crime agency arrests wealthy Russian businessman at London home

    58-year-old man and two others held by NCA’s anti-kleptocracy unit

  • Thursday, 1 December, 2022
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    The ECJ’s gift to oligarchs under sanctions

    A ruling that limits access to corporate registries is a blow in the fight against Putin

  • Monday, 28 November, 2022
    Access to EU public registers ends: ‘We are going back to era of corporate secrecy’

    Campaigners say invalidation of member states’ databases will hinder efforts to tackle abuse of ownership rules

  • Wednesday, 23 November, 2022
    EU financial regulation
    European countries begin taking down public company registers after ruling

    Anger among transparency campaigners as court finds access to data on corporate ownership interferes with right to privacy

  • Monday, 21 November, 2022
    FT SeriesTech Champions
    Applying AI to the war on financial crime

    Regulators’ demands, a crackdown on money laundering and sanctions on Russia are driving growth for ComplyAdvantage

  • Tuesday, 8 November, 2022
    German police raid UBS over Usmanov money laundering probe

    Russian businessman rejects allegations as bank’s Frankfurt and Munich branches are searched

  • Friday, 4 November, 2022
    Deutsche Bank AG
    Deutsche Bank threatened with fines as deadlines to fix controls approach

    Dispute between lender and German regulator over improving money-laundering measures escalates further

  • Thursday, 27 October, 2022
    Danske Bank AS
    Danske Bank braced for money-laundering fines of $2bn

    Shares in Denmark’s biggest bank jump 11 per cent as investors hail end of uncertainty over scandal

  • Monday, 24 October, 2022
    Credit Suisse Group AG
    Credit Suisse fined €238mn in French money laundering deal

    Settlement resolves legal case ahead of Swiss lender’s major restructuring this week

  • Wednesday, 21 September, 2022
    Westminster council plans crack down on ‘dirty money’

    London local authority vows to combat ‘secret’ web of opaque property ownership and calls for tougher penalties

  • Thursday, 15 September, 2022
    Spain
    Spanish police arrest ‘one of Europe’s biggest money launderers’

    Suspect used a sham vodka brand and underground banking system to process up to €350,000 a day of dirty funds

  • Monday, 12 September, 2022
    Entain PLC
    Australian watchdog investigates Entain over anti-money laundering controls

    Owner of betting sites Ladbrokes and Coral under scrutiny

  • Friday, 12 August, 2022
    Cryptocurrencies
    Dutch authorities arrest suspected developer of crypto mixer Tornado Cash

    Man detained as part of global crackdown on anonymity-enhancing crypto platforms

  • Monday, 8 August, 2022
    Digital currencies
    US Treasury imposes sanctions on ‘crypto mixer’ over alleged laundering

    Ofac says cyber criminals have used Tornado Cash service to launder more than $7bn

  • Sunday, 31 July, 2022
    UK property
    UK launches property register to curb flow of £100bn ‘dirty money’

    Initiative will require anonymous foreign owners or buyers to reveal their identity

  • Thursday, 30 June, 2022
    UK rhetoric on Russian money laundering not matched by action, MPs conclude

    Foreign affairs select committee criticises government’s ‘lack of willingness’ to legislate to stop illicit financial flows

  • Monday, 27 June, 2022
    Credit Suisse Group AG
    Credit Suisse found guilty over Bulgarian drug money failings

    Bank ignored signs of criminality including suitcases of cash, Switzerland’s top criminal court rules

  • Thursday, 9 June, 2022
    FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen
    SEC chair reviews ‘uneven’ US equities market

    Bleeding stops in US municipal bond market as investors seek slowdown protection

  • Saturday, 14 May, 2022
    Margaret Hodge
    Dirty money contaminates the UK’s public sphere

    A lax approach to laundering illicit gains typifies the creeping corruption of British democracy

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