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Hello Friday!  It’s October 27, and we’re tracking top stories to take you into the weekend: SEC's Gensler boasts of $5B taken in enforcement actions, U.S. Treasury hits Hamas with fresh sanctions, Iran Sanctions Evasion 101, Deutsche Bank and Standard Chartered sample SWIFT killer, and much more...

Featured Story

🎯 Gary Gensler teases details of SEC’s $5B take from enforcement actions, shades crypto. Gensler revealed that the SEC took 780 enforcement actions, including 500 standalone cases, and distributed $930 million to harmed investors. Cointelegraph

Top Stories

💥 U.S. Puts New Sanctions on Hamas, Members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Bloomberg

💥 Global Sanctions Dashboard: How Iran evades sanctions and finances terrorist organizations like Hamas Atlantic Council

💥 Deutsche Bank and Standard Chartered Ventures Test SWIFT Killer for Stablecoins and CBDCs CoinDesk

💥 US ‘perfect playground’ for laundering money linked to environmental crimes ICIJ

💥 Russian billionaire Fridman loses challenge over mansion upkeep Reuters

💥 Robust new laws to fight corruption, money laundering and fraud UK Government

💥 U.S. Lawmakers Urge DOJ Decision on Charging Binance, Tether for Aiding Hamas CoinDesk

💥 Detained Ukraine tycoon Kolomoisky gives up control of 1+1 Media for five years Reuters

💥 SBF's very bad afternoon in federal court Axios

💥 U.S. Postal Service touts crackdown on postal crime with hundreds of arrests AP

💥 G-7 Trade Chiefs Set to Tackle Supply Chains, Economic Coercion Bloomberg

IN THE NEWS

Russia & China

🚩 Putin clears way for deals involving Bonum stakes in Russian firms Reuters

🚩 China's investigation of Foxconn is a warning to the U.S. Axios

🚩 China Premier Urges Stepped Up Trade, Investment With Russia Bloomberg

🚩 Russian sanctions swell Euroclear's balance sheet further Reuters

🚩 Think Tank Urges US to Get Even Stricter With China Over Chips Bloomberg

Corruption & Financial Crime

💸 Liberal dark money network has donated $10M to anti-Israel causes NY Post

💸 Smuggling Migrants Toward the U.S. Is a Booming Business WSJ

💸 OFAC-Designated Colombian National Extradited to Face Charge of Distributing Cocaine Internationally DOJ

💸 Dominican Republic Judge Orders Custody for Executives of Financial Institution OCCRP

Drug War

💊 Lawmakers look to weed out illegal NYC smoke shops with possible ties to Middle East terror funding NY Post

💊 78 involved in large-scale cannabis trafficking arrested in Spain and Italy Europol

💊 US government says it plans to go after legal goods tied to illegal fentanyl trade in new strategy ABC

Crypto & Cyber

🔐 Setting the record straight on crypto crowdfunding by Hamas Elliptic

🔐 MGM Resorts hackers 'one of the most dangerous financial criminal groups’ Record

🔐 Hobbled Crypto Exchange's Creditors Are Suing Its CEO and Want to Claw Back Money From 'Bitcoin Jesus' CoinDesk

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