AML

Australia’s financial institutions are entering a critical period as major anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing reforms approach implementation. The regulatory framework is shifting rapidly, while technology, customer expectations, and financial crime threats continue to evolve.

How Australia’s AML reforms are reshaping FinCrime strategies

Australia’s financial institutions are entering a critical period as major anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing reforms approach implementation. The regulatory framework is shifting rapidly,...
Hawk's AI agent automates AML investigations

Hawk’s AI agent automates AML investigations

Hawk, a provider of AI-powered anti-money laundering (AML), screening and fraud prevention solutions, has launched its AML Investigative Agent, designed to help financial institutions...
deepfake

Mastering AML in the age of deepfakes

An estimated $2tn is laundered through the global financial system every year — a staggering figure that represents far more than financial loss. The...
AML

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...

News Stories

AI can spot scams early, but humans must still decide

AI can spot scams early, but humans must still decide

A payment can pass every check and still be the product of manipulation. The account name matches, the customer insists they know the recipient,...
Why the RegTech and SupTech divide is about to disappear

Why the RegTech and SupTech divide is about to disappear

The long-standing wall between the technology firms use to comply and the technology regulators use to supervise is coming down, according to CUBE, the...
DACH banks must rethink platforms as AI and rules collide

DACH banks must rethink platforms as AI and rules collide

Banks across Germany, Austria and Switzerland that are replacing their wealth management platforms face a difficult balancing act. According to fincite, the DACH region...
Ema secures $77m Series B to scale AI Employees

Ema secures $77m Series B to scale AI Employees

Ema, an enterprise platform that provides agentic AI Employees, has closed a $77m Series B round as it looks to take its autonomous workforce...
Compliance teams trust data but struggle with audit trails

Compliance teams trust data but struggle with audit trails

LSEG Risk Intelligence, the risk-focused arm of LSEG, has published global research showing that although nearly all compliance leaders trust their screening data, fewer...

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