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Child exploitation: The AML risk hiding in plain sight

The AML and financial crime community rarely confronts the subject of child sexual exploitation head-on, and in the view of Consilient, it is long...
Steward

AI compliance platform Steward secures $5m funding

Steward, an AI-first compliance platform trusted with $100bn in investor assets, has raised $5m to automate AML/KYC onboarding for sophisticated investors. The round was led...
AML

South Africa’s illegal gambling AML blind spot exposed

Responsible gambling messaging is ubiquitous across sport sponsorships and social media campaigns, yet South Africa's sprawling informal gambling market continues to operate largely unchecked....
crime

The multilingual gap hiding financial crime risks

Financial crime rarely announces itself in English. Yet many anti-money laundering (AML) monitoring programmes are still structured as though it does. This mismatch between...
AML

OPBAS findings highlight need for stronger AML controls

RegTech provider SmartSearch has warned that anti-money laundering (AML) standards must improve across the legal and accountancy sectors following the publication of a new...
AML

Four key benefits of AML compliance systems consolidation

Financial institutions are increasingly today finding it hard to deal with what countless compliance teams describe as “solution sprawl” — a fragmented environment of...
AML

How AML compliance tools are priced in financial services

Anti-money laundering compliance has become an unavoidable reality for financial institutions operating in today’s heavily regulated environment. From FinTech start-ups to global banks, firms...
FinScan

FinScan teams with Nexus AML for data-first AML compliance

FinScan has partnered with Nexus AML to help regulated institutions scale data-first AML operations globally. The collaboration is aimed at tackling one of the most...
crime

Financial crime risk assessments: the foundation of AML control

Financial institutions operate on complex systems that the public rarely notices. Beneath everyday banking services sit governance structures, risk frameworks, control environments and layers...
AML

AML for SMEs vs enterprises: key compliance differences

AML processes are a core requirement for any organisation operating within financial services. However, the way these compliance frameworks are implemented can differ significantly...

News Stories

KYCP’s COT 2.1.7 targets friction in client onboarding

KYCP’s COT 2.1.7 targets friction in client onboarding

Client onboarding remains one of the most stubborn pain points in financial services, where unclear instructions, messy document collection and cluttered data views can...
AI financing fears trigger equity rotation, EXANTE finds

AI financing fears trigger equity rotation, EXANTE finds

Strong corporate earnings are no longer enough to move markets, according to EXANTE’s October equity review. The investment firm describes a growing disconnect between...
fincite brings AI and tokenisation debate to Swiss banking

fincite brings AI and tokenisation debate to Swiss banking

What will AI and WealthTech actually leave behind for Swiss banks? According to fincite, that was the central question drawing more than 150 decision-makers...
PremFina and boom team up on premium finance

PremFina and boom team up on premium finance

PremFina, a UK-based premium finance provider, has entered a long-term strategic partnership with boom, the digital insurance brand run by Abacai Technologies Limited, to...
Amdocs moves into InsurTech with $340m EIS acquisition

Amdocs moves into InsurTech with $340m EIS acquisition

Amdocs, a provider of mission-critical systems for communications firms, has agreed to buy EIS, a San Francisco-based InsurTech platform provider, for roughly $340m in...

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