Kate Clifton, Editor

After 26+yrs watching financial crime & compliance, interviewing experts & encouraging them to write,it’s time to hand the editor’s pen on to Kate Clifton & Keith Nuthall who are more than fit for the task.Thank you & keep fighting the good fight! Timon Molloy, Editor (1999-2026)

Binance fires top investigators who claim to have uncovered evidence of Iranian sanctions violations fortune.com/2026/02/13/bin…

Jim Richards, frontline AML veteran, talks to Paul Cochrane about priorities, resource allocation, jeopardy & impact across private & public sectors, why he likes rules, would ban crypto ATMs & puts a question mark over the risk-based approach. [Video] moneylaunderingbulletin.com/video/the-righ…

Transparency International CPI 2025: Findings and insights transparency.org/en/news/cpi-20…

EU seeks to ban all Russian crypto transactions. Bloc also wants to prohibit some trade with Kyrgyzstan, in first use of new powers against sanctions circumvention ft.com/content/c225a2…

Inside the Russian Monopoly money network moving billions over borders ft.com/content/8ea9eb…

How Russia weaponised global banking to silence dissidents ft.com/content/9f499f…

Illicit crypto flows surge to record US$158bn. Sharp rise in money sent to criminal wallets comes after volumes had been declining ft.com/content/36869e…

Deutsche Bank offices raided in German money laundering probe. Prosecutors swoop on lender’s Frankfurt headquarters and site in Berlin ft.com/content/89c888…

Sanctioned Iranian banker amassed €400mn European property empire. Ali Ansari, accused of financing Revolutionary Guards, owns Mallorca golf club and Frankfurt hotels via offshore companies ft.com/content/c28d72…

⚖️ @CPSUK with @metpoliceuk obtained multi-million-pound Confiscation Order against convicted money launderer Seng Hok Ling orlo.uk/mGOvo

US fines for dirty money drop 61% as Trump retreats from enforcement. Total penalties imposed by financial watchdogs fell to $1.7bn in the year to 19 December 2025 ft.com/content/46826b…

Binance allowed suspicious accounts to operate even after 2023 US plea agreement. Leaked files show continued activity despite links to terror networks, failed ID checks and other red flags. ft.com/content/5d8af3…

Thanks to Donald Trump, 2025 was a good year … for white-collar criminals theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int…

🚨🧵New RUSI report, 'Tackling Dirty Money in Football', by Kathryn Westmore and Georgia Jones (@CFS_RUSI) is out now! rusi.org/explore-our-re…

🎙️In the latest #STRPodcast, Jeffrey Robinson joins @keatingetom to challenge the Anti-Money Laundering status quo. Are we too entrenched in our current approach to combat economic crime? Learn more here: bit.ly/456nlr4

Full credit, says Tristram Hicks, to FATF for producing new guidance on asset recovery - very helpful, as far as it goes, but that is far from far enough. He suggests how the content should be augmented to become a blueprint for real, demonstrable change. moneylaunderingbulletin.com/legalandregula…

UK should help its offshore tax havens develop alternative industries such as tourism in return for greater financial transparency, the government’s anti-corruption champion has said. ft.com/content/e31bfb…

UK: Standard Chartered settles £1.5bn lawsuit over Iran sanctions breaches. Investors alleged the UK-headquartered bank had issued misleading statements about compliance. ft.com/content/ac0dbd…

BREAKING NEWS: EU Adds Russia to AML Watchlist Read in front of the paywall: moneylaundering.com/news/eu-adds-r… Pic by NVO. creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa…