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The U.S. Department of the Treasury published a 2024 Non-fungible Token (NFT) Illicit Finance Risk Assessment. The risk assessment explores how vulnerabilities associated with NFTs and NFT platforms may be exploited by illicit actors for money laundering, terrorist financing, and proliferation financing.  The assessment finds that NFTs are highly

Summary: Facts: "The magnitude of the gaps in JPM’s surveillance was large: On DCM-1, for example, JPM failed to ingest into its surveillance systems—and thus failed to surveil—billions of order messages from 2014 through 2021." Penalty?: Statement of Commissioner Kristin N. Johnson on Settlement Agreement

Overview: "From at least February 2017 through the present, Merrill failed to establish and maintain a supervisory system, including written supervisory procedures, reasonably designed to achieve compliance with its best execution obligations for certain retail equities orders" FACTS AND VIOLATIVE CONDUCT: * Merrill failed to reasonably supervise the execution