Elder Financial Exploitation: Trends and Typologies

June 15 is Elder Abuse Awareness Day, with the aim to highlight the growth in crimes targeting the elderly population. Vastly underreported, elder financial exploitation... 

Elder Financial Exploitation: Trends and Typologies

Originally Presented: June 19, 2024

June 15 is Elder Abuse Awareness Day, with the aim to highlight the growth in crimes targeting the elderly population. Vastly underreported, elder financial exploitation... 

Funnel Accounts

April 10, 2024 by Nasdaq Verafin

Funnel accounts continue to thrive as criminal organizations leverage the tactic to exploit the U.S. banking system and quickly move money across great distances at minimal cost — all while enabling anonymity for the depositors. Used as a method to... 

Stolen Lives – International Sex Trafficking

January 10, 2024 by Nasdaq Verafin

Human trafficking is financially motivated. Described as a “crime that involves other crimes,” human trafficking is typically connected to illicit money flow, corruption, document fraud, trafficking in illicit goods, cybercrime and terrorism. Sexual exploitation remains the most common motive for... 

The Mounting Menace of Investment Scams

Investment scams, also known as financial grooming, are causing significant financial and emotional harm for countless victims around the world. Losses to the fraud increased... 

Human Trafficking: Know the Behavior, Uncover the Crime

According to the U.S. Department of State, an estimated 27.6 million people across the globe are impacted by human trafficking and forced labor at any... 

A Ruthless Scam

September 26, 2023 by Nasdaq Verafin

A prominent virtual currency investment scam, with the demeaning label “pig butchering,” is creating significant financial and emotional harm for countless victims around the world – criminals defrauded victims of more than $2 billion USD in 2022. Known as financial... 

Combating Human Trafficking with Verafin’s Data-Driven Financial Crime Management Platform

July 5, 2022 by Nasdaq Verafin

  Generating an estimated $150 billion per year, human trafficking is one of the most profitable and heinous international crimes. Human trafficking and human smuggling was identified in the AML/CFT National Priorities as one of eight “predicate crimes that generate... 

Modus Operandi of a Criminal Organization

Originally Presented: June 1, 2022

The Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) National Priorities identified Transnational Criminal Organizations (TCOs) as a significant threat. Financial institutions require a... 

Industry Panel – Global AML Regimes & Collaborative Approaches to Fight Crime

Originally Presented: October 19, 2021

Advancements in global AML regimes are creating new possibilities to enhance anti-money laundering efforts and disrupt the flow of illicit funds through increased industry collaboration...