Neobanks race to cut KYC friction without inviting fraud
Neobanks have built their reputation on speed. Customers expect to open an account from a phone in minutes, without a branch visit, a stack...
Fraud as a service outpaces banks stuck in silos
Fraud has never been cheaper or easier to commit. Fraud-as-a-service and phishing-as-a-service now sell ready-made attacks off the shelf, letting an ordinary criminal rent...
Legacy risk models can’t keep up with modern crime
Financial crime has evolved faster in the last five years than in the previous two decades, yet many institutions are still assessing risk with...
Gold laundering puts banks on the AML front line
Two major financial crime institutions are putting greater emphasis on fragmented data and cross-border intelligence sharing, creating a growing challenge for banks exposed to...
Payhawk turns to Flagright as spend crime risks converge
Payhawk has selected Flagright to extend fraud prevention and anti money laundering oversight across its platform.
The partnership addresses a growing challenge for finance teams:...
The real cost of building financial crime tools in-house
It is a familiar boardroom moment. A compliance team flags the need to modernise its financial crime risk assessment process, and someone from IT...
Sumsub overhauls flagship course as fraud tactics evolve
Sumsub Academy, the free training arm of identity verification and compliance platform Sumsub, has relaunched its flagship course as AML Transaction Monitoring 2.0.
The programme...
Why bonus abuse is iGaming’s costliest fraud problem
Promotional campaigns such as welcome offers, free spins, cashback and referral rewards are designed to attract genuine players and accelerate growth for iGaming brands....
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...













