Risk Management

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Why technology now underpins financial crime risk assessments

Technology has become the backbone of modern financial crime risk assessments. Where these assessments were once built on spreadsheets, word documents and email-driven workflows,...
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Eight compliance risks emerging from a fractured world

A fragmented world shaped by geopolitical rivalry, diverging regulatory regimes, supply-chain realignment and weakening international cooperation is fundamentally altering the global financial crime risk...
Arctic Intelligence

How Arctic Intelligence automates and scales business-wide risk assessments

Arctic Intelligence was founded to address a persistent weakness in financial crime compliance: the reliance on fragmented, manual processes to deliver business-wide risk assessments....
Flagright

SME Bank selects Flagright to enhance transaction monitoring and screening

SME Bank has partnered with Flagright to strengthen its real-time financial crime controls while maintaining operational speed and scalability. The partnership follows a detailed evaluation of Flagright’s...
crime

Financial crime risk assessments as a board-level tool

Not long ago, financial crime risk assessments were often approached as a box-ticking exercise. Many firms treated them as annual paperwork designed to satisfy...
Equifax

Equifax unveils Credit Abuse Risk to combat first-party fraud

Equifax has announced the launch of Credit Abuse Risk, a new predictive model designed to help lenders identify and mitigate first-party fraud while supporting...
risk

How can firms manage risk beyond their own walls in 2026?

Risk no longer halts at the edge of the organisation. As businesses rely more heavily on third-parties, cloud providers, data partners and complex supply...

Why prepaid gift cards are a growing financial crime risk

The idea that a Valentine’s Day gift could play a role in financial crime still feels counter-intuitive to many consumers. Yet prepaid vouchers and...
IMTF

IMTF expands SironOne with AWS Marketplace listing

IMTF, a global RegTech provider specialising in anti-financial crime and regulatory compliance technology, has announced that its holistic compliance platform, SironOne, is now available...
crime

Who really owns financial crime risk in 2026?

Across many financial institutions, the Financial Crime Risk Assessment (FCRA) is still widely misunderstood. Whether it appears as an enterprise-wide ML/TF/PF assessment in Australia,...

News Stories

The $bn water risk problem insurers can no longer ignore

The billion dollar water risk problem insurers can no longer ignore

Water damage remains one of the most underestimated risks facing modern buildings, creating significant challenges for insurers, property owners and facilities managers as hidden...
FinTech

Investors turn up the heat with $1.9bn raised in FinTech this week

Across the 19 deals reported on by FinTech Global this week, there was a grand total of $1.95bn raised by FinTech firms, reflecting a...
Why banks can't afford years-long payments overhauls

Why banks can’t afford years-long payments overhauls

Payments modernisation has become the defining boardroom debate in banking, and according to Tieto, the banks that move in months rather than years will...
Why the annual review may become a premium service

Why the annual review may become a premium service

The annual review is itself under review, and according to WealthTech provider Ortec Finance, the commercial consequences could be profound. The Financial Conduct Authority's consultation...
Why affidavits of unchanged status matter for W-8 compliance

Why affidavits of unchanged status matter for W-8 compliance

Firms handling cross-border payments face mounting pressure to keep payee documentation accurate, and according to compliance specialist Comply Exchange, affidavits of unchanged status are...

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