Chinese authorities issued an arrest warrant for Wu Chaoshuai over alleged offenses connected to a loan-sharking gang and money laundering.

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Thai police alleged that Wu Chaoshuai recruited individuals to open bank accounts, collected their bank cards and account details, and supplied them to money-laundering groups.

Participants in the cross-border trial evaluated joint bank coordination, anti-money laundering compliance, counter-terrorism financing measures, and wallet infrastructure integrated by TISI Inc.

Polygon Labs' Open Money Stack U.S. payments business is registered as a money services business with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN)

Coinme agreed to a $2.5 million settlement with 34 state regulators on October 8, 2026 over alleged Bank Secrecy Act and anti-money laundering failures.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation issued a final reputation-risk rule on April 7, 2026, prohibiting supervisors from using anti-money laundering concerns as a pretext for reputation-risk supervision.

A7 International utilizes an AI-driven compliance and routing system to analyze sender, beneficiary, and jurisdiction risk factors to select optimal payment paths.

U.S. FinCEN reported that entities operating as A7 Sub-Agents processed over $17 billion in transactions between January 2025 and June 2026.

VersaBank's VUSD tokenized deposits incorporate technology enabling regulators to freeze, seize, and burn deposits identified as participating in illegal activities.

Zhimin Qian pleaded guilty to money laundering offenses in September 2025.

Ripple Prime Global CEO Michael Higgins stated that Ripple Prime's real-world asset-linked perpetual swap product gives institutions another source of liquidity built on regulated infrastructure and focused on anti-money laundering standards

A7 International requires individual users to undergo identity verification (KYC) and corporate clients to complete corporate data verification (KYB) before submitting invoices.

The Bank Secrecy Act establishes financial reporting requirements, including thresholds that trigger suspicious activity reports

Zhimin Qian pleaded guilty to money laundering and fraud offenses and was sentenced in November 2025 to 11 years and eight months in prison

Empire Market operators encouraged users to run their cryptocurrency funds through tumbling and mixing services to obscure transactions

U.S. federal authorities seized $400 million in cryptocurrency, cash, and real estate linked to darknet bitcoin mixing service Helix

Governments should ban cryptocurrency mixing services to prevent darknet money laundering

Drug traffickers and other criminals used darknet bitcoin mixing service Helix to launder at least 354,468 bitcoin, according to the U.S. Department of Justice

Transfers from personal crypto wallets should be reported to the US government

Senator Richard Blumenthal's inquiry requested that Cantor Fitzgerald explain how it monitors Tether's compliance with banking and sanctions laws, and details of steps taken to investigate allegations of illicit finance and sanctions evasion

Under Binance's November 2023 settlement, Binance admitted to violating the Bank Secrecy Act, agreed to pay over $4.3 billion in penalties, and was required to exit the US market