The swift downfall of Archegos Capital Management founder Bill Hwang last week by US prosecutors revealed a sprawling scam that was quite a bit more…
SEC is Beefing Up its Crypto Fraud Unit
The Securities and Exchange Commission is vastly expanding its fight against cryptocurrency fraud by hiring more than a dozen new employees to combat cybercrime, the…
British Authorities Reveal that KYC Compliance is a Joke
Challenger banks must improve how they assess financial crime risk following a review by the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) that found some fail to…
Is Switzerland About to Open Up its Banking Secrecy Laws?
Swiss politicians will debate the future of the country’s controversial banking secrecy law this week, as it faces pressure from UN officials to scrap rules…
Deutsche Bank HQ Raided by Police in Money Laundering Investigation
Prosecutors, federal police and other officials searched Deutsche Bank’s headquarters in Frankfurt on Friday in a move Germany’s largest lender said was linked to suspicions of…
Deutsche Bank Whistleblower Found Dead in Los Angeles
A reputed federal informant and whistleblower who went missing after he was reported to have turned over a trove of secret files about Deutsche Bank…
Famous Hanford Nuclear Whistleblower Retires, Leaving an Inspiring Legacy
When Tom Carpenter first emerged as a whistleblower on the so-called ‘Hanford Site,’ a government-operated nuclear weapons facility in rural Washington state which later became…
Elon Musk’s War on the SEC Reaches New Heights
Elon Musk called the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) “shameless puppets” of Wall Street short-sellers on Monday in a string of tweets describing his short-lived…
‘Gaslit’ TV Show Brings Whistleblowers Front and Center
Following in the vein of investigative favorites gone before, such as The Big Short and Spotlight, Gaslit on Starz is a new political thriller tackling…
Bill Gates’ Ecolab Accused of Firing Whistleblower Employees
Ecolab, the hygiene company backed by Bill Gates, last year praised the “integrity” of an executive who resigned over an alleged compliance breach and later…