"Financial crime compliance has become all the more important amid geopolitical upheaval caused by the ongoing Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Hamas conflicts. This has led to increased worries and speculation about the rise of money laundering rings and other financial crime rackets used to fund these wars....Financial criminals often rely on digital assets and dark web marketplaces to shroud their identities. As such, financial crime compliance has had to evolve and strengthen itself accordingly, to be able to deal with these more sophisticated kinds of fraud."