On 9 September 2026 the Financial Action Task Force published Risks of Gaming and Gambling, a Methods and Trends report drawn from contributions by more than 80 jurisdictions, industry associations and researchers, and it arrived with a set of new red-flag indicators written for compliance teams. For anyone running anti-money laundering controls inside a casino,…
On 26 June 2026 the Financial Action Task Force published a report on terrorist financing through social media, instant messaging applications and streaming platforms, and it lands with an uncomfortable number attached. Fewer than 30% of jurisdictions contributing to the FATF report said that this risk was covered in their national risk assessments. That national-level…
When a supervisor publishes its prioritised risks for the year, it is telling you where its inspectors will look first. The FI 2026 AML priorities are exactly that. Finansinspektionen (FI), the Swedish financial supervisory authority, set them out on 18 June 2026 in its report on prioritised risks related to money laundering, terrorism financing and…
A speech is not a rule. A conference address does not itself create a filing requirement. So when the Financial Conduct Authority gives a financial crime speech, the temptation in a reporting team is to skim the headline cases and move on. That is the wrong instinct. The June 2026 FCA financial crime speech tells…
Your compliance team filled out the CSSF Questionnaire on Financial Crime last year. This year, you can forget everything about that format. The CSSF has replaced its annual questionnaire with a standardised template developed by the European Authority for Anti-Money Laundering (AMLA). The data points are different, the structure is different, and the purpose extends…
Your compliance team has spent years building its AML framework around the Luxembourg Law of 12 November 2004, as amended, which transposes the EU Anti-Money Laundering Directives. That framework is about to be replaced. Not amended. Replaced. The AMLR (Regulation (EU) 2024/1624), published on 19 June 2024, is a directly applicable EU regulation that will…