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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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 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...













