Covered Institutions

Cryptocurrency flows to suspected human trafficking services surged 85% in 2025, reaching hundreds of millions of dollars across identified services.

Elon Musk’s social-media company, X, appears to have violated U.S. sanctions by selling “Premium” subscriptions to accounts linked to Iranian government officials and state entities, according to a Tech Transparency Project (TTP) report. 

Deutsche Bank continued providing services to Jeffrey Epstein for months after telling the disgraced financier it would end its relationship with him in late 2018 and only moved to terminate all of his accounts following his final arrest in July 2019.

Belgian police raided European Commission offices in Brussels on Thursday as part of an investigation into potential irregularities in the sale of EU real estate assets.

The Federal Reserve has told banks it plans to review and potentially drop some outstanding confidential supervisory warnings, as Vice Chair Michelle Bowman pushes to refocus oversight on near-term threats to lenders’ financial condition.

Paxful Holdings Inc., a peer-to-peer virtual currency trading platform, was sentenced on Tuesday to pay a $4-million criminal penalty after pleading guilty to conspiracies tied to illegal prostitution, anti-money-laundering failures and transmitting criminal proceeds.

The Council of Europe has agreed to remove the diplomatic immunity granted to Thorbjoern Jagland, clearing the way for Norwegian police to investigate the former secretary general’s newly uncovered relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.

A newly formed group of businesses and organizations in Australia are set to team up to fight financial abuse as part of a new program that encourages collaboration to address major social and economic ills.

A bipartisan coalition of U.S. House lawmakers has introduced legislation that would order the State Department to add Russian mercenary groups to its list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs).

Drug cartels and other criminal groups are increasingly using cryptocurrencies and a growing “gig” workforce of freelance brokers and couriers to launder cash and evade law enforcement, Bloomberg Businessweek reported.