The AML Brief

The AML Brief

Financial crimes intelligence for AML, KYC, and fraud professionals.

Four months for enabling $100 billion in criminal flows. The personal liability question in AML isn't settled.

Jun 9, 2026

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5 min read

Four months for enabling $100 billion in criminal flows. The personal liability question in AML isn't settled.

Institutional penalties hit nine and ten figures. Individual sentences have been something else entirely.

What your compliance team writes is what examiners read first.

Jun 2, 2026

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4 min read

What your compliance team writes is what examiners read first.

The Binance CCO messages. TD Bank's culture emails. Capital One's risk files. Three enforcement actions, one pattern.

Capital One's analysts flagged the business as high-risk. They still didn't file the SARs.

May 26, 2026

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5 min read

Capital One's analysts flagged the business as high-risk. They still didn't file the SARs.

A $390M FinCEN penalty, a convicted Genovese associate, and a compliance program that exempted its own highest-risk customers.

FinCEN published eight AML priorities in 2021. Two of them haven't aged well.

May 19, 2026

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5 min read

FinCEN published eight AML priorities in 2021. Two of them haven't aged well.

A four-year scorecard on which priorities shaped enforcement and which just described the status quo.

Customer risk ratings look fine. Until someone checks the refresh dates.

May 12, 2026

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4 min read

Customer risk ratings look fine. Until someone checks the refresh dates.

How the most common CRR breakdown happens and why adding analysts won't fix it.

Binance filed zero SARs. Then came the $4.3 billion bill.

May 5, 2026

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4 min read

Binance filed zero SARs. Then came the $4.3 billion bill.

The world's largest crypto exchange and what happens when you decide the rules don't apply to you.

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