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Latest US Senate crypto market structure bill decried by Democrats, banks July 22, 2026 | Neil Roland

US Senate Republicans circulated an updated version of a bill to govern the broader digital asset market that drew fire from banking groups and key Democrats. The Digital Market Asset Clarity Act includes the ... (more story)

UBS 'Operation Chocolate' set up trader for wrongful UK prosecution, lawyers say July 22, 2026 | Martin Coyle and Samuel Rubenfeld

UBS fed misleading information to US prosecutors about former trader Tom Hayes and orchestrated an internal investigation named Operation Chocolate which led to his wrongful jailing in the UK for manipulating ... (more story)

Deutsche Bank raided in Frankfurt over Postbank transactions July 22, 2026 | Martin Coyle

Deutsche Bank has been targeted by German prosecutors who raided its Frankfurt headquarters on Wednesday, concerning transactions involving Postbank, of which Deutsche had taken majority ownership in 2010. The... (more story)

US FinCEN chief pressed by lawmakers of both parties to raise AML reporting cutoffs July 21, 2026 | Neil Roland

Senior US Treasury officials may take steps to raise the 1970 threshold for banks to file Suspicious Activity Reports and Currency Transaction Reports, though this measure wasn’t included in a related rule pro... (more story)

US drops part of former Goldman banker's bribery case ahead of trial July 21, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld

Federal prosecutors told a US judge on Tuesday they will drop one element of the bribery scheme alleged in a corruption case against a former Goldman Sachs banker. At the final pretrial conference in federal c... (more story)

Texas customs broker sentenced to prison in US for role in Scoular bribery scheme July 20, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld

Carlos Leopoldo Alvelais Alarcon, a customs broker based in Texas, was sentenced Monday to 18 months in prison after pleading guilty to bribing Mexican officials on behalf of an agricultural firm seeking to mo... (more story)

Liquidated Puerto Rican bank charged in US with suspicious activity violations July 20, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld

Blue Ocean International Bank, a Puerto Rican lender in liquidation, was charged in Florida federal court with willfully failing to file reports on suspicious activity by its customers, according to court records.

US attorney says he wasn't 'decisionmaker’ in dismissing Adani fraud case July 17, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld

US Attorney Joseph Nocella said he didn't make the government’s decision to dismiss a high-profile fraud and corruption case involving Indian billionaire Gautam Adani. Trent McCotter, a senior US Justice Depar... (more story)

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Trinidad court cites US disdain of rights, blocks extradition of ex-FIFA official July 22, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld

The Trump administration has shown an “very public and very vocal disregard” for the legal rights of non-citizens, a Trinidad and Tobago court said in a recent ruling that permanently blocked the extradition o... (more story)

Failed art-sale case holds lesson for UK's Russia sanctions prosecutors July 21, 2026 | Martin Coyle

The UK's first prosecution of a company for breaching Russia sanctions by transferring luxury goods came to nothing earlier this month when a judge dismissed the case before trial. While the case's existence h... (more story)

Rising tide in UK sanctions enforcement signaled by intelligence-sharing deal July 09, 2026 | Maciej Boguslawski

Sanctions enforcement is rising up the agenda in the UK, most recently with the country’s largest penalty to date for a breach of financial sanctions on Russia over its Ukraine war. In this context, a recent m... (more story)

In justifying Adani dismissal, US shows hand on foreign bribery prosecutions July 07, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld

As the US Justice Department tries to dismiss a fraud and corruption case against Indian billionaire Gautam Adani, a senior official provided a glimpse of how the government applies foreign bribery enforcement... (more story)

Australia's AML/CTF reforms bring Privacy Act obligations to 100,000 entities July 02, 2026 | Sean Maguire

Australia has extended its anti-money laundering and counterterrorism financing regime to lawyers, accountants and real estate agents, while also bringing more than 100,000 businesses within the scope of the 1... (more story)

EagleBank allegedly allowed decade-long US kiting scheme, document says July 01, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld

A friend and former business partner of EagleBank’s ex-chairman and chief executive, and the friend’s son, were able to carry out a check kiting scheme through the bank for more than a decade, according to a d... (more story)

EU court ruling may limit reach of US sanctions June 19, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld and Martin Coyle

After the US imposed sanctions on a Canadian judge on the International Criminal Court, she said late last year that she had lost access to her credit cards, and Amazon’s Alexa service had stopped responding t... (more story)

Nigerian ex-minister’s bribery trial acquittal holds lessons for UK prosecutors June 18, 2026 | Martin Coyle

Wednesday's acquittal of former Nigerian oil minister and OPEC president Diezani Alison-Madueke over accusations that she took bribes for oil contracts meant a dark day for prosecutors at the UK's National Cri... (more story)