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Placement is the first stage of the three stages of money laundering. At this stage, criminals attempt to enter the ‘dirty’ money into the financial system. This process can be dangerous because large ...

CHINESE FIRMS have dominated almost every legal industry they have entered, from steel to ships, batteries to electric vehicles. They drive down costs and prices and cause no end of consternation in ...

A major move has just been made in the European Union to fight financial crime. A brand-new agency called the Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA) has started work in July 2025. It is based in ...

Designed for busy in-house counsel and compliance professionals, this newsletter summarizes some of the most important domestic and international Anti-Money Laundering (AML) regulatory and enforcement ...

Europe has big plans to combat money laundering, but its history of tackling the illicit flow of dirty cash through its financial system is decidedly checkered. Estimates vary wildly about how much ...

An estimated $750 billion in illicit funds flows into Europe’s economy each year, with Germany accounting for almost a fifth of the dirty money, followed by the U.K. and France, according to Nasdaq’s ...

As President Trump has championed crypto and the industry has gone mainstream, funds from scammers and other criminal groups have flowed onto major crypto exchanges. Credit...Karolis Strautniekas ...