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US Treasury advances cyber plan for crypto industry to ward off threats
The US Treasury said it launched a plan to provide “timely, actionable cybersecurity information” to the digital assets industry as cyber threats targeting cryptocu... (more story)
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US CFTC aims to expand prediction market MOUs from MLB to other leagues
US Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chair Michael Selig, who last month signed an information-sharing memorandum of understanding with Major League Baseball rel... (more story)
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US OCC rescinds Biden administration recovery guidelines for large banks
Biden administration recovery guidelines for large banks have been rescinded by the US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, which cited the elimination of “un... (more story)
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A criminal investigation into Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation by UK prosecutors led to it being had “over a barrel” by lenders, lawyers for the Kazakh miner have said as it opened a $290 million claim a... (more story)
Senator Elizabeth Warren, the top Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee, expressed concern that US Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Paul Atkins deliberately misled lawmakers about declining enforcem... (more story)
No breakthrough on the EU's 20th Russia sanctions plan is likely at a meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council next week despite the political transition in Hungary, an EU diplomat said on Friday. The package... (more story)
Deutsche Bank has reported possible breaches of sanctions related to Russian clients to Germany’s central banking authority. “Whenever we identify potential issues, we put in place appropriate measures to adap... (more story)
Mining company Glencore has won a bid to keep some internal documents out of the hands of investors who are pursuing claims linked to overseas corruption. Glencore is being sued under the UK’s Financial Servic... (more story)
Svenska Handelsbanken's Norwegian unit has been found to have “serious deficiencies” in its anti-money laundering controls, the country’s financial regulator said on Thursday. The lender hasn't been fined, but... (more story)
A British accountant has been charged with an alleged breach of the UK’s Russian sanctions legislation and a money laundering offense by the National Crime Agency. John Ormerod, 76, became the first UK-based n... (more story)
The Serious Fraud Office’s new interim head has pledged to speed up the agency's work as it looks to use more innovative tools to crack cases. In the agency's 2026/27 business plan, Interim Director Graham McN... (more story)
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Eight years after Latvia's major money laundering scandal, the challenge is ensuring tough banking reforms are adhered to without stifling activity in the sector, the head of the country's central authority fo... (more story)
Despite a new US executive order directing the Department of Justice to move “swiftly, deliberately, and proactively” to disable cyberthreats and prosecute cybercriminals, the chronically delayed trial of alle... (more story)
An alleged scheme to divert billions of dollars’ worth of high-performance Supermicro servers integrated with Nvidia artificial intelligence technology to China involved repeated deceptions of corporate compli... (more story)
A group of Senate Democrats is proposing to extend the statute of limitations for a key anti-bribery law to give future administrations additional time to prosecute Trump-era corporate corruption. Though unlik... (more story)
A jury in Los Angeles could decide this summer whether a chartered helicopter ride to a Lakers basketball game for a Senegalese government official, paid for with allegedly stolen investor funds as part of a b... (more story)
Lawyers representing John Ormerod — a British accountant who became the first UK-based national to be designated by the government over alleged Russian sanctions breaches — said it was too early to say whether... (more story)
A new executive order from the White House says the US will take a hard line with “transnational criminal organizations” that launch ransomware and other cyberattacks. The order from President Donald Trump ins... (more story)
A new corporate cooperation program launched by the US attorney for the Southern District of New York has white-collar defense lawyers pondering the age-old question of whether to take up the government offer.... (more story)