International

Anti-Money Laundering

FATF Issues Report on Crowdfunding for Terrorism Financing

By Editors | 01/11/2023

The report describes how terrorist groups exploit crowdfunding platforms and provides risk indicators and recommendations to help combat this activity.

PEPs & Sanctions

US, UK, Canada Announce New Myanmar Sanctions

By Editors | 01/11/2023

OFAC restricts financing to Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise (MOGE), as UK and Canada add new names to asset freeze lists.

AI Risk & Governance

Citi to Provide GenAI Tools to 40,000 Coders Across the Bank

By Editors | 31/10/2023

Citi used generative AI to analyse 1,089 pages of new capital rules proposed by US regulators in July. Over 350 other use cases have been proposed.

Tokenisation

ANNA Issues First Set of ISINs for Crypto Assets

By Manesh Samtani | 31/10/2023

Crypto assets with a registered DTI can now also be issued an ISIN. Currently, there are already 108 ISIN–DTI pairs.

AI Risk & Governance

G7 Nations Agree on Code of Conduct for AI Systems

By Editors | 31/10/2023

The code of conduct for AI developers seeks to promote the development of “secure and trustworthy” AI systems internationally.

Tokenisation

BondbloX Opens Fractional Bond Trading Platform to Individual Investors

By Editors | 31/10/2023

Until now, only accredited and institutional investors have been allowed to access the BondbloX Bond Exchange platform.

Anti-Money Laundering

Elliptic Corrects Media and US Senator over Reporting on Hamas Crypto Funding

By Editors | 31/10/2023

Blockchain analytics firm says the WSJ and Senator Elizabeth Warren misrepresented its research in overstating the funding Hamas received through cryptocurrency.

CBDCs

BIS Publishes Design Guide for Offline CBDC Payments

By Editors | 30/10/2023

The report says the complexity of developing offline payment capabilities for CBDC systems means some challenges and trade-offs cannot be solved easily.

Anti-Money Laundering

FATF Adds Bulgaria to Grey List, Removes Four Others

By Manesh Samtani | 30/10/2023

The FATF also agreed to revise its asset recovery and NPO-related recommendations, besides publishing three new reports.