Why gold laundering is now a bank supervision problem
FATF opened the launch of its 2026-2028 agenda with a single number: $1trn. That is what scams are estimated to cost globally every year,...
FATF declares war on $500bn global fraud epidemic
Giles Thomson, the new president of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), has unveiled a multi-year roadmap to tackle fraud losses he says amount...
Fragmented ownership is breaking financial crime controls
Financial crime risk assessments only work when governance holds everything together. These assessments pull input from business units, risk and compliance teams, technology functions,...
Singapore moves to tighten anti-scam laws
Singapore's Ministry of Home Affairs has introduced the Scams (Countermeasures) and Other Matters Bill, tabled for its first reading in parliament on Tuesday, in...
Edge partners with Socure on early fraud screening
Edge, the cashflow bureau that converts bank transaction data into explainable, machine learning-driven scores for lending and rental screening, has announced a new partnership...
Conta Azul taps Oscilar as fraud risk scales with payments
Conta Azul, part of Visma and one of Brazil's leading cloud-based financial management and enterprise resource platforms for small and medium-sized businesses, has partnered...
Sumsub and Sumvin let AI agents spend as humans
Sumsub, an identity verification provider, and Sumvin, a market-leading agentic commerce platform, have partnered to let AI agents complete purchases and manage financial accounts...
Visa bets $2.4bn on BioCatch to stop fraud upstream
Visa has agreed to buy BioCatch in a $2.4bn all-cash deal that signals how seriously the payments giant is taking the surge in AI-enabled...
SEON promotes Donna Fowler to chief people officer
SEON, the AI command centre for fraud prevention and AML compliance, has promoted Donna Fowler to the role of chief people officer.
Fowler steps up...
Why Cyera is buying Oasis Security as AI agents multiply
Oasis Security, a non-human identity security specialist founded in 2022, has signed a letter of intent to be bought by data security firm Cyera,...













