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Branta and Amboss Partner for Safer Bitcoin Transactions

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billion in cryptocurrency stolen in February 2025, has heightened concerns around vulnerabilities in routine transfers, showing how sophisticated attacks can bypass commonplace security measures. The Bybit hack, which saw nearly $1.5

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BitGo On Protecting Cryptocurrency Exchanges From Money Launderers

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There are currently more than 5,500 different cryptocurrencies in circulation, but the biggest name in the business — and often a metonym for the industry itself — is bitcoin. Ongoing monitoring of existing accounts is also necessary to ensure that cryptocurrency exchanges like BitGo are continuously compliant with AML regulations.

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Bitcoin Daily: Unicas Opens Physical Crypto Bank Branch In India; Mayor Eyes Investing 1 Pct Of Miami's Reserves In Bitcoin

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Indian FinTech Cashaa and the country's United Multistate Credit Cooperative Society teamed up to launch what they say is the world's first cryptocurrency bank branch through a joint-venture bank called Unicas, according to a release. The operation also will provide traditional banking services, according to the backers.

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Fenergo: Financial Firms Hit With 57% More Financial Fines in 2023 for Compliance Shortcomings

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Fenergo has released their annual financial fines analysis, showcasing that penalties for failing to comply with anti-money laundering (AML), KYC, environmental, social, and governance (ESG), sanctions and customer due diligence (CDD) regulations totalled $6.6billion in 2023, up considerably from $4.2billion in 2022 and $5.4billion in 2021.

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Financial Crime: Technology can Transform Compliance

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By combining advanced AML analytics in scoring processes and robotics in alert and case handling you tremendously improve efficiency and effectiveness in compliance. Our analytics-driven AML solution monitors transactions for unusual behavior and offers advanced link analysis, pattern recognition, profiling based detection. In the U.S.

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Financial Crime Predictions 2021: More AI & Ransomware

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Newly regulated areas such as digital assets and cryptocurrency businesses will likely undergo increased scrutiny (as companies transacting in digital assets are not exempt from AML requirements). The final rule extending AML regulatory requirements to banks lacking a federal functional regulator is just one such example.

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FinCen Director On Why Casino Cooperation Is Central To Fighting Financial Crime 

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The second was the rise of cryptocurrency (though during his remarks he tended to refer to it as Convertible Virtual Currency or CVC). When it came to technology, Blanco was specifically interested in – and concerned about – two main areas. The first is the rise of mobile gaming and gambling.