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The Department of Treasury in Washington DC, USA

U.S. Treasury to End Cyber Threat-Sharing Feed for Banks

The U.S. Treasury Department is shutting down a program that shared cybersecurity threat intelligence with banks and other financial firms after cutting its funding.

Guilherand-Granges, France - March 06, 2025. Anthropic: AI safety company developing Claude language models. Founded by ex-OpenAI members, focusing on safe AI systems.

Britain’s Financial Regulators Are Scrambling to Assess Mythos Risks

UK financial regulators are urgently assessing the risks posed by Anthropic’s latest AI model after concerns that its ability to uncover software vulnerabilities could expose major financial institutions to new cybersecurity threats.

Jerome Powell speaking at the microphone

Bessent and Powell Warn Banks on New AI Tool’s ‘Zero-Day’ Risks

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell summoned Wall Street executives this week to warn that a new artificial intelligence model from Anthropic could mark the start of a more dangerous phase in cybersecurity.

A photo of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell on a motorcycle and staring at the camera. From the Epstein files

Epstein Made $25 Million in 2015 as a Consultant in DOJ Bank Settlement

Jeffrey Epstein received $25 million in late 2015 for consulting work tied to a U.S. Justice Department tax-evasion settlement with Swiss private bank Edmond de Rothschild Group.

Adapted from “Commodity Futures Trading Commission entrance Washington DC 2026-03-15 08-47-48,” by G. Edward Johnson, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

CFTC To Focus on Prediction Markets, Willful AML Violations

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) will prioritize enforcement against insider trading in prediction markets, manipulation in energy markets, spoofing, retail fraud, and willful violations of anti-money-laundering (AML) laws, the agency’s new enforcement director said Tuesday.

Geneva, Switzerland - November 15, 2024: Entrance to a building of the headquarters of the Edmond de Rothschild Group, an independent banking group specializing in private banking and asset management

Edmond de Rothschild Bank’s Paris Office Searched in Epstein Probe

French financial prosecutors searched the Paris offices of private bank Edmond de Rothschild last week as part of an investigation into suspected bribery involving former employee and diplomat Fabrice Aidan, in a case linked to documents from the Jeffrey Epstein files.

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FCA to Investigate MFS Collapse Amid Fraud Allegations

Britain’s financial regulator has opened an investigation into collapsed mortgage lender Market Financial Solutions, marking the first formal regulatory probe into the Mayfair-based group after its failure amid fraud allegations.

Alexander Lukashenko the president of Belarus and spectators at the celebration of the 75th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War, parade of May 9 in Minsk, Belarus. Minsk, Belarus - May 9 2020.

U.S. Lifts Sanctions on Belarusian Fertilizer Companies and Bank

The United States has lifted sanctions on three Belarusian fertilizer companies and the country’s state investment bank in exchange for Belarus freeing 250 political prisoners, a move made as the war in Iran continues to drive fertilizer prices higher.

European Union flags outside European Commission building in Brussels, Belgium. Close up

AMLA Launches Initiative to Calibrate Risk Assessments

The EU’s Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA) has launched a data-collection exercise to test and calibrate risk-assessment models that will be used in 2027 to choose up to 40 financial institutions for direct AMLA supervision starting in 2028.

US Securities and Exchange Commission office building. — Image: Flickr, “U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission,” photo by arsheffield, edited

SEC Enforcer Leaves Agency After Little Over 6 Months on the Job

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said on Monday that Judge Margaret Ryan has stepped down as director of its Division of Enforcement after little more than six months on the job.