Offshore Trust Structures and Feeder Fund Mechanisms

Offshore trusts and feeder funds remain highly effective instruments utilized by illicit actors aiming to introduce compromised funds into the U.S. financial system. While standard compliance frameworks commonly address clear-cut transactions and overt indicators, the intricate connections between privacy-focused jurisdictions, complex trust formations and intermediary...
Predicting the Future: LLMs in AML Regulation

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI)―especially large language models (LLMs)―has the potential to reshape industries through advanced language understanding and pattern recognition. In anti-money laundering (AML) compliance, LLMs can enhance transaction monitoring, improve risk assessment and automate report generation, program governance and investigations. Financial institutions (FIs) use...