Risk Management

Hungary’s Integrity Authority has developed an artificial intelligence and machine-learning platform to track Hungary’s financial flows in real time as it works to trace an estimated €160 billion in public funds alleged to have been misappropriated during former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s 16 years in power.

UBS Group AG has cut its Asia sustainability office by half in recent months, part of a wider global retreat from dedicated Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) operations that has followed the bank’s integration of Credit Suisse.

FinCEN and other U.S. regulators on Friday issued a joint advisory warning banks to be alert to payroll fraud and identity-theft schemes connected to the employment of undocumented migrants, citing more than $2.5 billion in suspicious activity reported to the bureau in 2025.

French judges have formally charged HSBC Private Bank Suisse with organized money laundering and criminal conspiracy in connection with the alleged embezzlement of $330 million from Lebanon’s central bank by its former governor Riad Salameh.

Albanian anti-corruption prosecutors have launched a criminal investigation into a proposed $4 billion luxury resort backed by Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, and have frozen the bank accounts of a landholding company tied to the project amid widening scrutiny of property transactions at the protected coastal site.

Switzerland’s financial markets regulator published supplementary guidance on money laundering risk analysis Wednesday, flagging persistent weaknesses in how banks and other financial institutions define risk tolerance and assess inherent risks.

The House voted Wednesday to take up legislation that would impose sweeping new sanctions on Russia and provide additional aid to Ukraine, as six Republicans and an independent broke with party leaders to join Democrats in forcing the measure to the floor.

Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has written directly to Premier League football clubs warning that sponsorship arrangements with unauthorized cryptocurrency exchanges and trading platforms may expose them to criminal liability, money-laundering risks, and enforcement actions.

A March 2025 Treasury Department rule exempting virtually all U.S. companies from beneficial ownership reporting requirements has created significant gaps in the federal government’s ability to combat shell company abuse, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has warned in a new report. 

The United Kingdom government warned it could legislate to compel its Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories to adopt public registers of beneficial ownership if voluntary efforts continue to stall, the prime minister’s anti-corruption champion said.