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first_img The UK has invested £500 million to add 500 officials to combat money laundering crimes

The UK Home Office announced on Tuesday that it will invest £500 million over three years to recruit 500 officials to track and seize criminal funds as part of a new anti-money laundering and asset recovery strategy. The funding comes from an economic crime tax levied on regulated businesses, and the new officials will be distributed across various police forces, the National Crime Agency (NCA), and the Crown Prosecution Service.The NCA estimates that over £100 billion is laundered through the UK or UK corporate structures each year, and the Home Office stated that this threat has "intensified in recent years due to the rise of fintech, cryptocurrency, and artificial intelligence." The new officials will work based on "Operation Destabilise," which targets Russian-speaking cybercriminal groups that convert street cash into cryptocurrency. The NCA plans to launch a new round of arrests and cash seizures against networks supporting ransomware gangs, hostile nations, and Class A drug trafficking, having already arrested 119 suspected money launderers and seized over £25 million in cash and cryptocurrency in less than a year.The NCA's Economic Crime Centre stated in its annual report last week that criminals are "innovatively using crypto asset products to evade detection and transfer illicit value at scale," hoping to expand this model to other networks and build "more proactive and intelligence-led crypto capabilities." Crypto assets rank third among the nine economic crime priorities agreed upon with the Treasury and the Financial Conduct Authority. The government stated that nearly £350 million has been recovered from criminals over the past year, over £1 billion has been refused, £26 million has been returned to victims, and nearly 4,000 money laundering convictions have been facilitated.

ChainCatcher "From Cryptocurrency to Smart Economy" Roundtable: Crypto is shifting from speculation to practical value, with compliant RWA and AI payments becoming the core engine of the new cycle

At the "Crypto 2026: From Cryptocurrency to Smart Economy" themed forum held in Hong Kong, guests including Sign partner Sarah, HashKey Chain Senior Business Development YuYi, Monad Greater China Ecosystem Head Harvey Chen, OmenX Chief Marketing Officer Gisele, and SVP Chain Market Head Celest engaged in a roundtable discussion on "The Revaluation of Crypto and the New Cycle."Regarding why they remain firmly invested in Crypto amid the AI boom, Sarah pointed out that the hotter AI gets, the more use cases there are for Crypto assets, and future transactions between AI Agents will rely on digital assets. YuYi believes that the bear market is precisely when the wheat is separated from the chaff, with compliant RWA (such as Hong Kong's first physical silver token) being implemented, speculative assets being eliminated, and the era of on-chain infrastructure arriving. Harvey Chen stated that high-performance public chains are the foundation for supporting large-scale applications, and Monad is committed to this. Gisele noted that Crypto addresses fairness and value transfer, complementing AI's focus on efficiency. Celest emphasized that AI lacks a native value system and increasingly requires Crypto to provide value authentication and decentralized trust.On the changing understanding of Crypto's value, the guests unanimously agreed that the industry is shifting from "issuing tokens for the sake of issuing tokens" to pursuing sustainable business models, with greater focus on capital efficiency, low costs, and 24-hour settlement as practical values. The value of public chains should be assessed based on real business scenarios and user transaction volumes, rather than narratives and financing.Regarding future growth engines and entrepreneurial advice, the guests generally expressed optimism about compliant RWA, AI payments, and sovereign blockchain directions, advising entrepreneurs to focus on real application scenarios, avoid empty concepts, and maintain a long-term construction mindset.
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