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Dossiers

Deep analysis, worked through
and sourced

Where the Regulatory Watch tracks what is changing, dossiers work through what it means — longer analysis on the questions that do not fit on a card, each one sourced to the primary material.

July 2026Open

Case studies · what the evidence delivered

Matters that turned on the evidence — and what running it early changes

Nineteen worked matters — fifteen public cases (Autonomy, Wirecard, P&ID, the Staley/Barclays ban, Parmalat, 1MDB, Glencore and more) and four clearly-labelled anonymised composites — across fraud, arbitration, conduct & employment and concealment, read for what the evidence delivered and what it would have delivered run earlier. For in-house teams, general counsel, and the firms that instruct us.

Case studiesFraudArbitrationEmploymentEvidence
July 2026Open

Concept · evidence handling

One matter, one channel

A design for where the evidence should live: one matter reference, one secure Swiss-hosted channel agreed at engagement, every arrival logged, one working copy, and source material returned or deleted on completion. How matters are set up in this practice — and why the filing decision is the cheapest one you'll ever make early.

EvidenceData protectionMethod
July 2026Open

Explainer · on-chain evidence

Reading the chain

How to read a transaction on a public block explorer — hashes, UTXOs and accounts, confirmations, gas, and where labels stop being evidence — and what the travel rule actually demands under FATF Recommendation 16, Regulation (EU) 2023/1113 and FINMA's stricter Swiss practice. For the practitioner who needs the ledger as citable evidence, not folklore.

BlockchainTravel ruleFATFEvidence
July 2026Open

Worked example · on-chain evidence

Tracing in practice

One transaction traced end-to-end at the practice's evidence standard — the 10,000 BTC pizza payment, cited so a stranger can re-derive it — then the Ronin bridge attribution handled with the layers separated, and a rotating set of real on-chain exercises (genesis block, DOJ seizure wallet, sanctioned addresses, token traps) with model answers. The companion piece to Reading the chain: the method, performed.

BlockchainEvidenceTrainingWorked example
July 2026Open

Hot topics · regulator priorities

What's live now — FCA, FINMA and the EU

A dated board of current regulator priorities across the FCA, FINMA and the EU (AMLA / ESMA / EBA): the crypto rulebook, the authorisation gateways, market abuse, the travel rule, operational resilience — what each is, when it bites, and why it matters, with a plain-language glossary. Kept current; re-verified quarterly.

RegulatoryCryptoAMLCurrent
October 2025Open

Dossier · the Swiss AML system

Seven instruments carry the whole system

The seven statutory instruments of Swiss anti-money-laundering law — AMLA, AMLO-FINMA, CDB 20, the criminal-code articles (305bis/ter, 102), FINMASA, and the market-architecture layer — each with its key provisions, a practitioner note, and primary sources.

SwitzerlandAMLFINMARegulatory stack
October 2025Open

Opportunities · the same machinery, run early

Five engagements, seeded from the fraud register

Five recurring engagement patterns — tech-assisted investigation (Airbus), back-book rescreen (Swedbank), proof-of-reserves (FTX), counterparty-concentration review (Archegos), and a monitoring stress-test (NatWest) — each read against the precedent that made it necessary and what running it early would change.

EngagementsInvestigationsCase studies
October 2025Open

Analysis · cross-regime load

The Overlap: where the same function collides across regimes

Six financial-crime functions read against six instruments (Swiss AMLA, EU AMLA, AMLR, MiCA, DORA, ECCTA) — a collision matrix showing where EU, UK and Swiss obligations load the same function at once, seen from the regulator's, the in-house team's, and the firm's point of view.

Cross-borderAMLMiCADORA