Anti-Fraud

Neobanks

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

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...
crime

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

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...
Flagright

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:...
financial crime

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

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...
iGaming

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....
gold laundering

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

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...

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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