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Cranfill Sumner LLP

U.S. Whistleblower Program Expands to Allow the Payment of Awards to Non-U.S. Citizens, Auditors, and Compliance Professionals Who...

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In December 2022, the U.S. Congress included the Anti-Money Laundering Whistleblower Improvement Act as part of the Omnibus Budget for that year.  The Act includes drastic new measures to expand enforcement against those...more

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Data Protection Demands Complicate CTA Compliance

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On Jan. 1, the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) went into effect, premised on the belief that illicit actors use corporate structures like shell companies and fronts to hide their identities and launder criminal proceeds...more

Burr & Forman

FINRA Warns Against Russian-Sponsored Cyber Attacks

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In its April 27 Weekly Update, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority’s (“FINRA”) National Cause and Financial Crimes Detection program urged FINRA member firms to review a cyber-threat alert arising from Russia’s...more

Bennett Jones LLP

Defending Against Ransomware: OSFI Updated Advisory on Cyber Incident Reporting

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Ransomware continues to present an increasing risk to all organizations. Ransomware attacks can involve the installation of malicious software designed to block access to computer systems and/or steal data, and a...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

FTC Releases Updated Safeguards Rule for Financial Institutions

On October 27, 2021, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released a final rule that updates the Safeguards Rule of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (Final Rule). This Final Rule comes after the FTC sought comment on proposed changes...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Cyber-Enabled Financial Crime and Money Laundering

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Today we are very pleased to welcome guest blogger Moyara Ruehsen, PhD, CAMS, CFCS, who is an Associate Professor and Director of the Financial Crime Management Program at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in...more

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Impact of Digitized Environments & Modern Workplaces on Internal Investigations

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One of the hallmarks of a successful investigation is rooted in the expression “knowing what you don’t know.” An experienced investigator knows a lot about a lot of things – different types of fraud, corruption, theft,...more

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UK Payments and Retail Banking Regulation The Year Ahead 2019

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Disruption continues to be the norm for those in the payments and retail banking sectors. 2018 was dominated by preparations, or talk about preparations, for Brexit and 2019 started out in the same vein, with many firms...more

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Using artificial intelligence to fight financial crime – a legal risk perspective

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The Head of the Financial Crime Department at the UK Financial Conduct Authority (the FCA), Rob Gruppetta, gave a speech on "Using artificial intelligence to keep criminal funds out of the financial system" in December 2017....more

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Financial crime and investigations update for UK corporates

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The law and practice relating to financial crime and investigations is evolving fast. In the past 18 months we have seen two new Acts aimed at combatting financial crime (including the creation of two new corporate criminal...more

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints

On the 11th Day of Privacy, class counsel served on me……

. . . a data breach class action. Hackers and plaintiffs’ lawyers could combine to make 2014 the year when class actions concerning theft of sensitive information proliferate. On this 11th Day of Privacy, we look...more

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