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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Biden administration recovery guidelines for large banks have been rescinded by the US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, which cited the elimination of “un...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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French prosecutors have told MLex that the country’s plea deal system should remain, in the wake of legislative moves to scrap its system for dealing with corporate offenses. The CJIP system has been in place ... (more story)
A former Nigerian minister and OPEC president facing bribery charges has told a London court that she became a “target” because of her fight against corruption. Diezani Alison-Madueke has denied abusing her po... (more story)
UK hedge-fund manager Crispin Odey has dropped a multimillion-pound libel lawsuit against the Financial Times newspaper over sexual misconduct claims, which he has denied. Odey is currently embroiled in UK cou... (more story)
Credit Suisse, now part of UBS, has escaped criminal prosecution in Switzerland over the $2 billion Mozambique “tuna bonds” loan scandal, after judges ruled that the successor bank couldn’t be held liable for ... (more story)
The US Treasury said it launched a plan to provide “timely, actionable cybersecurity information” to the digital assets industry as cyber threats targeting cryptocurrency platforms grow “in frequency and sophi... (more story)
The US Treasury Department proposed rules that would implement a statutory mandate to apply anti-money laundering and sanctions compliance requirements to stablecoin issuers. Commenters have 60 days to respond.
UK law firm Scott-Moncrieff has lost an appeal over claims it didn’t have proper anti-money laundering defenses in place after millions of dollars linked to a Russian client was paid into its accounts. The mon... (more story)
The Trump administration unveiled a draft, mostly industry-friendly plan to combat money laundering and terrorism financing by ceding decision-making responsibilities to banks to assess their illicit financial... (more story)
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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)
The new interim head of the UK's Serious Fraud Office, Graham McNulty, is already in a senior role at the white-collar crime agency and was also a police officer, like outgoing chief, Nick Ephgrave. That promi... (more story)