Work Area: Anti-money laundering

Charles Cain, the head of the SEC’s FCPA unit, said the dearth of new FCPA monitorships in 2023 is a testament to the progress of corporate compliance over the last decade.

29 November 2023

29 November 2023

The senior DOJ official said prosecutors will scrutinise every disclosure made under the agency’s new M&A guidance for “sham” transactions.

28 November 2023

23 November 2023

After a record settlement with crypto exchange Binance, commissioners at the US commodities regulator put the industry on notice that flouting of US laws will not be tolerated.

22 November 2023

As part of resolutions with several US agencies, the company pleaded guilty to operating an unlicensed exchange, ignoring anti-money laundering regulations, and facilitating over one million illegal trades from users in sanctioned jurisdictions.

21 November 2023

Tysers Reinsurance Group and HW Woods scored deferred prosecution agreements with the DOJ after cooperating with prosecutors investigating a sprawling bribery scheme linked to two Ecuadorian state-owned insurance companies.

20 November 2023

Lawyers say the continued downturn in new cases at the SEC’s foreign bribery unit could be related to DOJ guidance on self-disclosure and sanctions.

15 November 2023

A lawyer who is accused of illicitly gaining access to Somali assets that were frozen throughout the country’s civil war alleges that both prosecutors and the State Department have been withholding exculpatory information.

15 November 2023

London solicitor William Osmond has been convicted of forgery and illicitly disclosing the existence of a money laundering investigation after the Serious Fraud Office accused him of leaking details about an evidence-gathering order during the now-shuttered ENRC investigation.

15 November 2023