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  • Why Crypto ATMs Attract Users and Why They Raise Compliance Concerns

    Crypto ATMs offer an easy way to buy digital assets, but they also bring significant compliance risks. They can be used for money laundering and fraud due to features like cash transactions and a lack of identity checks. Regulators are increasingly requiring operators to meet strict standards, including Know Your Customerand transaction monitoring, to balan…

  • FATF’s 2025 NRA part.2: Ways to Turn the FATF NRA into a Real AML Advantage

    FATF’s 2025 NRA part.2: Ways to Turn the FATF NRA into a Real AML Advantage

    This is the second part of article FATF’s 2025 NRA part.1: What It Is and the Biggest Ways It Can Go Sideways. If you haven’t read that one, we invite you to check it out. In the previous article, we walked through the FATF’s 2025 National Risk Assessment or NRA guidance and put on a…

  • FATF’s 2025 NRA part.1: What It Is and the Biggest Ways It Can Go Sideways

    FATF’s 2025 NRA part.1: What It Is and the Biggest Ways It Can Go Sideways

    Think of the National Risk Assessment or NRA for short, as the operating system for a country’s AML/Compliance strategy. The FATF 2025 guidance tells governments (and by extension FIUs, supervisors, and obliged entities) how to organise the right people, collect the right data, and assess threats and vulnerabilities. It also says how to rate inherent…

  • Deepfake Sextortion: FinCEN’s Warning and Its AML Imperatives

    Deepfake Sextortion: FinCEN’s Warning and Its AML Imperatives

    On September 8, 2025, FinCEN put out a strong warning about a disturbing trend: a surge in financially motivated sextortion. The main victims? Teenage boys. Criminals are now using generative AI and deepfakes to create realistic, explicit images of kids. Once the images are made, the victim is pressured to pay up or face exposure.…

  • How Criminals Launder Cash and What Compliance Can Do

    How Criminals Launder Cash and What Compliance Can Do

    Once criminals have accumulated large sums of illicit cash, they face the challenge of money laundering, so “cleaning” it. They want to use it without law enforcement noticing. It usually has three stages: placement, layering, and integration. Criminals mix, move, and change physical banknotes in several ways. Compliance teams need to know these methods to…