3 September 2010 - Readers who work for Federal and state banking regulatory agencies, and who are attending the Financial Crimes Seminar* sponsored by the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council [FFIEC], at the FDIC Seidman Center, in Arlington, Virginia on 23 September, please note that I will be spe ...more

2 September 2010 - This week, The Office of Foreign Assets Control named* Tehrik-e-Taliban, the Pakistani Taliban, both a Foreign Terrorist Organisation [FTO] and a Specially Designated Global Terrorist Organisation [SDGT]. The agency also named its primary leaders, Hakimullah Mehsud and Wali Ur Rehman  as SDGTs. ...more

2 September 2010 - The President of the United States has executed an Executive Order that ushers in new sanctions, specifically directed against the illegal programmes of the Government of North Korea. Targeted: money laundering, arms sales, counterfeiting of foreign currency and cigarettes, and even luxury goods pro ...more

1 September 2010 - The extradition of accused arms trafficker Viktor Bout to the United States, to face charges that he sought to sell surface-to-air missiles to the FARC, a designated terrorist organisation, has been delayed for procedural reasons. Thailand's appeals court recently overruled the trial court, and ...more

31 August 2010 - The consistent refusal of the Afghan government to prosecute corruption cases involving officials at the ministerial and cabinet levels, which was demonstrated this week when that country's president sacked a senior corruption prosecutor, has resulted in runaway corruption that poses a clear and ...more