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FINTRAC fines Exchange Bank of Canada $2.45m for AML failures

Plus, FCA flags CDD and EDD control gaps across UK firms, OFAC issues general licence for Lukoil transactions, and GAFA publishes 2026 AML trends report.

6 April 2026 · 4 min read

FINTRAC fines Exchange Bank of Canada $2.45m for AML failures

FINTRAC's $2.45m penalty against Exchange Bank of Canada signals intensifying enforcement against cross-border payment operators with weak transaction monitoring. The fine underscores what regulators are seeing across the board: CDD and EDD controls remain brittle. The FCA's latest findings confirm this isn't a one-jurisdiction problem. Meanwhile, OFAC's new general licence 131E clarifies what you can and can't do with Lukoil proceeds, and GAFA's latest research tells you what compliance teams are actually grappling with in 2026.

In today's brief

  • 1 What Exchange Bank's AML failures reveal about transaction monitoring blind spots in cross-border payments
  • 2 Did your firm's CDD controls pass independent scrutiny, or rely on manual paper trails?
  • 3 Does OFAC's Lukoil carve-out signal a shift in Russia sanctions enforcement post-2026?
  • 4 How mandatory crypto KYC and biometric CDD reshape compliance operations across fintech platforms?
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