Happy Friday! It’s November 7, and we’re tracking top stories to take you into the weekend: Central Bank of Ireland fines Coinbase $25 million for breaching AML monitoring obligations, Battered by Yet Another Typhoon, Philippine People Blame Corruption for Mounting Death Toll, U.S. sanctions Hezbollah financial operatives for laundering money from Iran, German Regulator Hands $52 Million Fine to JP Morgan, and much more…

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Central Bank of Ireland fines Coinbase $25 million for breaching anti-money laundering monitoring obligations. The bank said more than 30 million transactions, valued at over $202B, were not properly monitored and led to 2,708 late suspicious transaction reports. Block

🔥 TOP STORIES

Battered by Yet Another Typhoon, Philippine People Blame Corruption for Mounting Death Toll Time 

U.S. sanctions Hezbollah financial operatives for laundering money from Iran U.S. Treasury

German Regulator Hands $52 Million Fine to JP Morgan WSJ

U.S. arrests 5 at Germany's request in probe of online fraud involving payment providers Reuters

👉 Featured Report: 2025 Crypto Adoption and Stablecoin Usage Report TRM Labs

University of Pennsylvania confirms recent cyberattack led to major data theft Tech Radar 

Chipmaker Nexperia said it halted China shipments on payment refusal Euro News

Fiber Laser Expert Convicted of Economic Espionage and Theft of Trade Secrets DOJ

U.S. prosecutors seek five-year prison terms for Samourai Wallet founders Block 

Singapore caning of scammers marks distinction between ‘moral betrayal’, technical wrongs SCMP

UK seizes Jurassic dinosaur fossils worth £12M from Chinese money laundering suspect Independent 

Three more men charged in connection with Halloween terror plot investigation NBC

🚩 RUSSIA & CHINA

EU, China created special channel to ensure rare earth supplies Reuters

Western sanctions force Russians to turn to domestic wines Reuters

Russian Military Officer Jailed 10 Years for Bribery in Defense Procurement Moscow Times

Three Chinese National scholars from University of Michigan laboratory charged for conspiring to smuggle biological materials into the U.S. DOJ

💸 CORRUPTION & FINANCIAL CRIME

Former Argentine President, Nearly 90 Others, Go On Trial In Major Corruption Case OCCRP 

Multi-home seizure related to Chinese money laundering scheme, Mexican cartel ABC 

Belgian Authorities Charge Ex-EU Justice Chief for Money Laundering OCCRP

🔐 CRYPTO & CYBER

Indians who fled a Myanmar cyberscam center are being flown home from Thailand AP

1.3 Billion Unique Passwords Exposed In Extensive Data Leak Forbes

Cloudflare Scrubs Aisuru Botnet from Top Domains List Krebs

🚚 TRAFFICKING

How traffickers deep in the Sahara are extorting ransom payments from refugees’ families CNN 

Mohamed Al Fayed accuser criticizes Met refusal to investigate trafficking claims Guardian

ICE to open call center to help track migrant children for removal ABC

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