The assumption that bribery and corruption are more prevalent in developing nations has been a longstanding tenet of both media...

Fraud is no longer the work of lone actors exploiting isolated weaknesses. In today’s digital economy, financial crime has evolved into a...

We are living through a profound transformation in the architecture of risk. The convergence of deepfake technologies, generative...

It has been little more than a month since United States President Donald Trump pardoned Changpeng Zhao, the former chief executive of Binance. Zhao, better known as CZ, had pleaded guilty in 2023 to enabling money laundering through the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange. He served four months in prison, paid a substantial fine, and agreed to step down as CEO. The case was described by the US Department of Justice as a landmark in crypto enforcement. Yet, during an int

The term narco-terrorism, once an academic and counter-terrorism buzzword, has entered the mainstream of United States criminal justice and political discourse. Its resurgence is not coincidental. On 13 May 2025, the Department of Justice (DoJ) unsealed a sweeping indictment against multiple leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel , charging them with narco-terrorism, material support of terrorism, and drug trafficking. This landmark case marks the first time such charges have been app

Economic sanctions are the sharp edge of modern diplomacy. In a world marked by geopolitical fracture and strategic competition, they function as tools of coercion and containment, targeting adversaries without the deployment of armed force. But not all sanctions are created or enforced equally. In the UK, financial sanctions and trade sanctions operate within distinct legal and institutional frameworks. Financial sanctions, enforced by the Office of Financial Sanctions Imple

For more than a decade, challenger banks have styled themselves as the antidote to a stagnant, fee-ridden and tech-deficient banking...

In British public discourse, there is a peculiar allergy to the word 'corruption'. From parliamentary scandals to procurement...

Artificial Intelligence is rapidly reshaping the architecture of financial crime compliance. Once a heavily manual, document-intensive...

The Risk-Based Approach (RBA) has become the cornerstone of financial crime compliance within banks globally. Praised for its flexibility...

As geopolitical tensions intensify and sanctions become an increasingly prominent tool of foreign policy, multinational organisations are...

For the past decade, blockchain, tokenisation and stablecoins have been paraded as the future of finance. They are often described as...