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The African Insurance and Banking Fraud Prevention Committee (AIBFPC) announces the official launch of the Pan-African Forum and Knowledge Base Platform – The Fraud Fight Forum. This initiative is established to support the effective management of fraud risks within the insurance and banking sectors across the continent.

This report by Global Ledger provides a comprehensive analysis of cryptocurrency hacks throughout 2024 and the turbulent start of 2025. With a focus on major breaches, attack methods, laundering techniques, and mitigation strategies, it presents key insights for industry stakeholders to enhance security protocols and protect against evolving cyber threats.

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) and Global Coalition to Fight Financial Crime (GCFFC) co-hosted the APAC Fighting Financial Crime Conference 2025 today (1 April), under the theme of “Fighting Financial Crime in a More Complex World”.

Rabdan Academy in collaboration with MENA FCCG and ADGM Academy Research Centre Release Research Paper: A Risk Scoring Model for Managing Money Laundering Transactions

How understanding financial flows and key indicators can help to fight modern slavery and human trafficking in South Africa

Cybercrime: The UN secretary-general was tasked in 2019 with collecting views of Member States on the challenges that they faced in countering the use of

The Global Coalition to Fight Financial Crime is delighted to announce that Gretta Fenner, a tireless anti corruption campaigner and formerly Managing Director of the

As part of its latest outreach initiatives, MENA FCCG is collaborating with Crime Stoppers International as a new alliance to develop awareness videos to combat

The GCFFC have submitted a response to the FATF consultation on proposed revisions to R.1/INR.1/INR.10/INR.15 which in particular focusses on the Risk Based Approach.

Robust governance frameworks and reliable institutions create an environment of certainty and resilience, enabling societies and businesses to prosper. Conversely, corrupt practices pose significant risks

Effective supervision is not an exact science & cannot be strictly defined, or considered as something that can be taken “off the shelf” and is expected to work and operate effectively, repeatedly and without many years & cycles of operation.

A new Data Protection Experts Working Group commissioned by the GCFFC have today published a Paper “Fighting Financial Crime & Protecting Data Privacy Through Responsible

The value of beneficial ownership information fro fighting financial crime has been widely recognised by international standard setting bodies, FATF, OECD, IMF, The World Bank

GCFFC Experts have identified 10 key enablers for success in terms of effectiveness supported by 40 key takeaways that aim to help exsisting and future

The GCFFC Data Privacy Experts Working Group have produced this paper which sets the scene and provides preliminary recommendations to enable stakeholders to work towards

Welcome to the 2024 Fighting Financial crime Annual Summit, organised by the GCFFC and partners. We invite you and other leading fighting financial crime experts

Whilst all countries are seeing an increasing level of scams, richer countries, for example, G7, EU & OECD member countries are reporting the most in

Despite the most recent ILO update last month which shows increasing illicit profits from Modern Slavery/Human Trafficking of US$86 billion over a decade to US$236 billion, the GCFFC

Since its inception, the GCFFC has advocated for increased collaboration and information sharing as a key tenet in improving the effectiveness in fighting financial crime.

The Global Coalition to Fight Financial Crime is very saddened to have been informed of the news that Gretta Fenner.

On 11th March, 2024, Interpol published the ‘Financial Fraud assessment a global threat boosted by technology‘ as part of the first Global Fraud Summit, hosted

The Global Coalition to Fight Financial Crime established a Technology and Innovation Experts Working Group in 2022, inviting leading experts and practitioners to consider amongst

On 26 January 2024, Chair Ilze Znotina hosted the GCFFC Europe Chapter meeting in Brussels.

In its latest endeavours to enhance financial crime literacy across the region and beyond, the MENA FCCG in collaboration with United for Wildlife has issued a Guide on Illegal Wildlife Trade (IWT).

Mr. John Scanlon is announced as the Financial Crime Fighter of the Year for 2023.

On 23rd October 2023, the GCFFC convened for an in-person meeting, held at the INTERPOL headquarters in Lyon, France.

Recognizing the complexities associated with cultivating a culture of ethics in practice, MENA FCCG in collaboration with its Europe Chapter and Themis (Europe Chapter’s Strategic Alliance) developed a Culture Assessment Guidelines.

The GCFFC has announced Ilze Znotina as the new chair of the European Chapter

The GCFFC has a new Regional Chapter in Sub-Saharan Africa, lead by Xolisile Khanyile

The GCFFC announces it’s newest regional chapter- the Asia Pacific region

Xolisile Khanyile is announced as the GCFFC Financial Crime Fighter of the year for 2022

In response to the FATF consultation on Recommendations 24 and 25, our member Open Ownership has led a group to respond to the ask from FATF.

Xolisile Khanyile announced as Financial Crime Fighter of the Year 2022

The Integrity and Compliance Taskforce has published a report containing several policy recommendations on integrity and compliance.

The MENA Chapter of the GCFFC and MENA FCCG launched their jointly developed bilingual Reference Guide for practitioners to assist in improving awareness of trade-based financial crime risks

The Basel Institute on Governance launched the annual publication of the AML Index 2022.

RUSI states that fresh approach to countering illicit financial flows is needed to counter new and emerging threats.

Coalition Member The Sentry shared their latest briefing on “Constructing Corruption Identifying the Enablers Helping Build Violent Kleptocracies”.

MENA FCCG members gathered in Sharm Al-Sheik on September 1 – 2, 2022

A survey of both AML and fraud prevention private-private information-sharing platforms explores 15 different initiatives across the United States, the United Kingdom, Singapore, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Estonia and Australia.

The Global Coalition published the Effectiveness Expert Working Group Position Paper. This paper is informed by discussions of the Global Coalition to Fight Financial Crime, its Effectiveness Steering Committee (ESC) and its four sectoral subgroups

A new working group within the GCFFC is announced- Experts on Technology

The GCFFC’s Digital Assets Task Force is announced

The FATF subgroup provided the results of work done by financial crime experts to FATF making 20 recommendations on how to improve the effectiveness of the FATF Mutual Evaluation (ME) process.

Malawi Joins Call for a New Global Agreement to Prevent and Combat Wildlife Crime

This Whitehall Report is the first independent study to address the UK’s exposure and response to IWT-linked illicit finance.

David Lewis announced as Financial Crime Fighter of the Year 2021

Refinitiv’s response to the EU AML Action Plan presents a critical analysis of current shortcomings in Europe’s fight against financial crime and offers actionable policy recommendations. It highlights the need to shift from compliance-based approaches to proactive risk management, calling for better public-private collaboration, harmonized regulations, improved data sharing, and modernized frameworks for digital identity, beneficial ownership, and STR reform.