On July 30, 2025, Professor Yueh-Ping Yang, Deputy Director of the Center for Innovative Enterprise Law (CIEL), was invited by the Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Justice to chair the “56th Symposium on the Prevention of Economic Crime: Emerging Criminal Issues and Countermeasures in Third-Party Payment Services.”

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The symposium focused on criminal techniques used to conceal illicit financial flows through third-party payment channels, as well as the new anti-money laundering (AML) challenges faced by third-party payment providers following the amendment of Article 6 of the Money Laundering Control Act and the implementation of the Regulations Governing Anti-Money Laundering and Service Capacity Registration for Third-Party Payment Service Providers on November 30, 2024.

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The event opened with remarks by Deputy Director-General Wu Yi-kung of the Investigation Bureau and featured distinguished panelists, including Judge Hsing-I Lin of the Taipei District Court, Chief Prosecutor Tzu-Wei Cheng of the Qiaotou District Prosecutors Office, Inspector Ling-Ping Su of the Administration for Digital Industries, and Eric Liu, General Manager of Green World FinTech. Together, they discussed preventive measures against crimes involving third-party payment services from four perspectives: judicial practice, prosecutorial investigation, regulatory policy, and industry self-regulation.

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In his role as chair, Professor Yang highlighted that since 2021, Taiwan has established clearer AML regulations for third-party payment providers, with the Administration for Digital Industries serving as the administrative regulator. Following the 2024 amendments, regulatory controls have been further strengthened. To effectively prevent third-party payment services from becoming conduits for illicit financial flows, closer coordination between administrative regulators and law enforcement authorities will be essential. The symposium also extended discussion from the “Kyushu Case,” examining the role of third-party payment systems in facilitating illicit fund transfers and addressing new criminal patterns such as “fake three-way transactions,” underscoring the importance of inter-agency cooperation and public-private collaboration.

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The Center for Innovative Enterprise Law will continue to monitor AML developments and the maintenance of financial order in the digital economy, while promoting a more rigorous, transparent, and adaptive legal framework to meet the challenges posed by emerging financial crimes.