Why the first 72 hours can make or break enforcement cases
When a regulatory enforcement matter emerges, a firm’s stance is often fixed within three days, well before most teams have pieced together what actually...
FIS opens AML agent to non-clients as alert volumes soar
FIS, the provider of core banking, payments and data infrastructure, has made its AML Investigations Agent commercially available to every US-based bank, opening the...
Singapore expands COSMIC as financial crime risks evolve
Singapore is expanding its approach to financial crime detection through COSMIC, a collaborative information-sharing platform designed to help banks identify suspicious activity across institutional...
Unit21 and Corelation take aim at credit union fraud gaps
Unit21 has formed a partnership with Corelation, the core processing company behind KeyStone, to give credit unions a single environment for spotting, investigating, acting...
Cyber fraud threatens trust in money, warn BoE and IMF
The Bank of England and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), two of the world’s most influential financial authorities, have cautioned that a growing wave...
IMTF warns static AFC controls can’t connect the dots
Financial crime has evolved dramatically over the past ten years, yet the systems and operating models built to tackle it have largely stood still....
Aresbank taps AI to strengthen trade finance AML controls
Madrid-based corporate and trade finance bank Aresbank has selected SymphonyAI’s financial crime compliance technology to strengthen transaction monitoring across its trade finance and correspondent...
Banks risk missing mule networks beyond the first hop
Fraud proceeds rarely remain in the account where they first arrive. Money stolen through scams, account takeovers and payment fraud can be transferred through...
Why sanctions lists alone leave compliance teams exposed
For financial institutions, the biggest sanctions risk may not be the names already on official lists, but the ones that have not been added...
The long tail of SMBs is where fraud now hides
Every platform's customer base follows a familiar shape. At the top sit established, registered companies with tidy filings, the very accounts that most verification...













