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German police raid UBS in an investigation concerning a Russian Oligarch
German police searched branches of the multinational lender UBS as part of a money laundering investigation into Russian oligarch Alisher...
Nov 10, 20222 min read


Accountants in Cyprus leave PwC to keep clients with ties to Russia
To accept business from clients with Russian ties which the Big Four accounting firms are no longer considering, a group of PwC partners...
Nov 8, 20223 min read


McGuinness: New instant payment regulations, will make sanctions screening "more efficient"
Mairead McGuinness, the European Commissioner for Financial Services, has pledged that the bloc's recently disclosed instant payment...
Nov 8, 20222 min read


NS8's former CFO will serve five years in prison and forfeit $17.5 million for inventing revenue
The Department of Justice (DOJ) stated Thursday that a former chief executive of NS8, a business that prevents cyberfraud, has been...
Nov 7, 20222 min read


Price of Dogecoin Falls as Twitter is Sued?
The news that Twitter is being sued for mass layoffs and meme coin rival Shiba Inu pushed caused the price of Dogecoin to drop by 7% in...
Nov 4, 20222 min read


German Economic State Secretary: The country has "big plans" to combat "dirty money
Germany's State Secretary of the Ministry of Economic Affairs promised that the country has "big plans" to combat organized crime and...
Nov 3, 20222 min read


Cyprus: A hub for technology companies
International technology firms are one of the sectors of the Cypriot economy that kept expanding both during the pandemic and under the...
Oct 31, 20224 min read


Examining China's underground banking system
A 33-year-old Chinese national was detained in Teesside as part of a National Crime Agency investigation into a suspected Chinese...
Oct 26, 20227 min read


France and Israel sign AML cooperation agreement, promising to exchange information
On the sidelines of the FATF Plenary in Paris last week, France and Israel signed a new AML cooperation agreement. The Memorandum of...
Oct 25, 20223 min read


Binance arrives in Cyprus with CySEC's approval
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission has approved Binance, the largest crypto exchange, as a Crypto Asset Service Provider. Due...
Oct 24, 20222 min read


Cases of money laundering reported to Eurojust have doubled in the previous six years
In the previous six years, the number of cross-border money laundering cases reported to the EU's judicial body Eurojust has doubled. In...
Oct 21, 20222 min read


Liz Truss announced on Thursday that she was leaving as prime minister
Just six weeks after her appointment, Liz Truss announced on Thursday that she was leaving as prime minister, due to her economic...
Oct 20, 20221 min read


Lafarge will pay $778 million for funding ISIS and ANF in Syria
Lafarge, a French multinational construction goods business, pleaded guilty to providing material assistance and resources to two...
Oct 19, 20224 min read


Gatehouse Bank was fined $1.77 million for poor customer due diligence
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) fined Gatehouse Bank 1.58 million pounds (US $1.77 million) for failing to resolve "serious...
Oct 17, 20222 min read


Levels of global anti-bribery enforcement have fallen to all-time lows.
According to Transparency International's most recent report, countries are not doing enough to try to combat foreign bribery, with...
Oct 14, 20222 min read


Regional gas forum to be held in Cyprus with a focus on EU energy security
The forum's main topic will be the European Union's efforts to disassociate itself from Russian gas, which has an impact on all of the...
Oct 12, 20225 min read


UAE seizes assets worth Dh4.73 billion (€1.32 billion) in an effort to combat "dirty money"
According to a recent study, authorities in the UAE have confiscated assets worth more than Dh4.73BN (€1.32BN) during the past 12 months....
Oct 10, 20222 min read


EU fully prohibits the offering of crypto services to Russian individuals
The offering of crypto services to Russian citizens and residents would be totally prohibited, the EU Council decided today. It coincides...
Oct 7, 20222 min read


Cyprus Business Today
This week, the Cyprus Shipping Chamber (Kne) declared its support for the joint statement by representatives of the European shipping...
Oct 6, 20223 min read


Deputy PM of UAE and owner of Man City allegedly assisting oligarchs to evade sanctions
Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, who is also the owner of Manchester City Football Club and the deputy prime minister of the United...
Oct 5, 20222 min read
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