The Canadian government has proposed banning Bitcoin and other crypto ATMs, arguing the machines have become a primary on-ramp for fraudsters and money launderers...
The European arm of global cryptocurrency exchange KuCoin has hired anti-money laundering (AML) and compliance expertise in a bid to appease its regulator, which...
In brief
Fed Governor Michael Barr called on regulators to implement anti-money-laundering controls for stablecoins following last year’s passage of the GENIUS Act.
He identified stablecoins’...
Trader loses $50 million in token swap blunder.Some suspect the trade was a money laundering scheme.Experts explain why that's highly unlikely.When a crypto trader...
Nearly $100 million in investor funds was funneled through shell companies, offshore accounts, and major cryptocurrency exchanges in a sweeping federal money laundering case,...
Peer‑to‑peer cryptocurrency trading platform Paxful was sentenced to pay a $4 million criminal penalty after pleading guilty to conspiring in schemes that promoted illegal...
Paxful Holdings, which pleaded guilty last year to accusations from U.S. authorities that it had fostered illegal prostitution, violated money-laundering laws and knowingly handled...
Roughly $16 billion in illicit crypto flowed through Chinese-language Telegram-based networks in 2025.Chinese-language networks now account for about one-fifth of the roughly $82 billion...
Illegal crypto exchange chief sentenced to five years in South Korea.An unspecified number of victims lost money to the fraud ring.Criminals moved too fast...
A Venezuelan national allegedly laundered around $1 billion for crooks, feds say.He used a number of crypto wallets to do so.The alleged criminal transactions...
