Covered Institutions

The UK art market is coming under sharper scrutiny from HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), which has intensified enforcement of anti–money laundering rules.

Canada’s anti–money laundering watchdog has levied a C$19.5 million penalty against crypto exchange KuCoin for violations of the country’s AML rules.

A sharp pickup in mergers, acquisitions and initial public offerings is reviving Wall Street’s job market, prompting big banks to add senior deal makers and delay planned cuts.

UBS Group AG will pay €835 million ($985.6 million) to resolve a yearslong case in France over allegations the Swiss bank helped wealthy clients evade taxes. 

The Trump administration has imposed sanctions on Viviane Barci de Moraes, the wife of Brazilian Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Moraes, escalating a confrontation over the judge’s handling of cases against former president Jair Bolsonaro.

A Singapore court on Monday convicted two businessmen of falsifying documents that misled auditor EY into believing Wirecard held substantial cash in Singapore bank accounts.

KPMG overlooked serious risks at three regional banks that collapsed in 2023, a U.S. Senate report has found, raising questions about the quality of oversight by one of the world’s largest audit firms.

FinCEN Files investigation revealed how U.S. banks helped move illicit money worldwide, U.S. authorities are rolling back key reforms enacted in its aftermath, sparking alarm among transparency advocates.

Hong Kong has banned Richard Charles Heyes, Citigroup’s former head of pan-Asia equities, from re-entering the financial industry for five years after finding him liable for regulatory breaches.

OFAC sanctioned two Iranian financial facilitators and more than a dozen individuals and entities based in Hong Kong and the United Arab Emirates for moving funds that allegedly benefited Iran’s military.