Brenton John Poynter of Baulkham Hills, NSW has been banned from providing financial services by Australian regulatorm, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). His offence is startling.
It would be easy to think of dozens of bad-taste humorous comments to make about the conduct of Iain Farrimond but to do so would be terribly cruel. The circumstances in which he has found himself are awful but so serious that there can be no alternative to serious punishment.
A Gambling Commission investigation revealed that between November 2014 and August 2016 the gambling business William Hill Group breached counter-money laundering and social responsibility regulations.
The cost of compliance and risk management in financial institutions is an eternal bone of contention. US regulators The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency together with the criminal prosecutors at The U.S. Department of Justice have agreed a USD185 million civil money penalty against US Bank National Association, in essence for failing to apply sufficient resources to its counter-money laundering policies and systems.
The UK's housing loan crisis of the late 1980s to early 1990s and the US version in 2006 that led to the global financial crisis were both prefaced by three very specific warning signs. In the UK, all three warning signs are once more present.
The UK's housing loan crisis of the late 1980s to early 1990s and the US version in 2006 that led to the global financial crisis were both prefaced by three very specific warning signs. In the UK, all three warning signs are once more present.
The website for FxUnited (FxUnitedGlobal.com) optimistically says "copyright 2006 to 2020." On its website, it links to a company registration certificate which shows that the company, United Global Holdings Limited was registered in New Zealand under number 5247841 in 2014 and has, since, been removed. But all is not as it seems and the investigation into the huge scam in Malaysia is only one aspect of this case as our own investigations reveal.
Andrew Janssen, a 37 year old man from Garland, Texas in the USA is hoping someone will stump up his USD50,000 bail. He can't do it himself after he was held on Wichita Falls on charges of money laundering and his stash of cash seized.
"The U.S. Department of the Treasurys (sic) Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) today issued a finding and notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM), pursuant to Section 311 of the USA PATRIOT Act, seeking to prohibit the opening or maintaining of a correspondent account in the United States for, or on behalf of, ABLV Bank. FinCEN is proposing this action based on its finding set out in the NPRM that ABLV is a foreign bank of primary money laundering concern," says an e-mail from FinCEN. FinCEN says there are links to North Korea and the case is a warning to all banks that do business with NoKo or representatives of its regime. But the USA is mightily cross at links with several other countries with which relations are souring.
Thanks to The Harvey Boys, Phil and Rob, for providing us with outstanding service for almost two decades at their company UK Servers Limited, trading as Virtual Names. It's only right that I publicly thank them for all the support they have given me and my companies over the years, says Nigel Morris-Cotterill.
Sixty-four year old Dharam Prakash Gopee has been convicted of being an illegal money lender. At Southwark Crown Court in London last week he was sentenced to three and a half years in jail. But it's the Financial Conduct Authority's action that makes the case interesting.
Courts have long had the power to make Orders in relation to assets, usually to prevent their disposal and/or destruction. They are known by a variety of names, and sometimes names mean different things in different jurisdictions.
As we get ever closer to the launch of a new service under the GlobalKYC.com banner, we have today added six new domains to help users navigate directly to the relevant sections.
A report in the Vancouver Sun details the amazing failure of a project called "Statistical Analysis Software", currently in its fourth year and so far costing CND7.3 million, to design and implement money laundering risk identification and assessment software at the British Columbia Lottery Corporation's casino business which is deeply embroiled in money laundering investigations by the RCMP. It's a case study in how to stuff up = and now questions relating to the software and its failure are being added to the investigation.
The British government has announced the introduction of software to "detect terrorist content" on "any online platform." According to a statement issued yesterday "Tests have shown this new tool can automatically detect 94% of Da'esh propaganda with 99.995% accuracy. " That's amazing - and one has to ask how such figures can be quantified and proved. But there is good news: while large platforms have developed their own tech, smaller companies will be able to use that developed by the British government and ASI Data Science.
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