For most firms, reporting season ends the moment the file lands with the tax authority. The submission is made, the pressure lifts, and attention shifts elsewhere. Yet that moment of relief is precisely when the true health of the reporting process becomes visible, and treating submission as the end point is one of the most persistent weaknesses in tax transparency...

The United Kingdom, the new head of the global illicit finance watchdog, has assumed the Presidency of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) for 2026 to 2028, pledging to rally international collaboration against crime and a worldwide surge in fraud. Incoming FATF president Giles Thomson intends to sharpen the body's fight against the money flows behind crime, terrorism and the...

LexisNexis Risk Solutions, a provider of risk intelligence and fraud prevention technology, has partnered with mobile application security company Promon to help organisations better protect mobile transactions by combining application security with digital identity and behavioural intelligence. The partnership brings together LexisNexis Risk Solutions' ThreatMetrix digital identity, device and behavioural intelligence with Promon Shield's in-app protection and Promon Insight telemetry...

Financial crime compliance has passed through three distinct eras. First came human-led investigation, then rules-based automation, and now a third wave is beginning to take shape: agentic AI. Unlike its predecessors, agentic AI does not simply execute fixed logic. According to ComplyAdvantage, it plans, retrieves information, and moves through a sequence of decisions independently. For anti-money laundering (AML) teams,...

Zurich Financial Services Australia, the local arm of the global insurer and Australia's only major composite insurer, is set to enter the country's personal home insurance market after deepening its alliance with digital insurer Honey Insurance. Under the expanded arrangement, Zurich will take on underwriting and claims management for Honey's home, landlord and motor policies from October 2026, a move...

Acrisure, a global FinTech leader, has unveiled Asero Insurance Services, a specialty managing general agency (MGA) that brings a number of its US programme administrators together under one banner. The new entity, known as Asero, consolidates businesses already owned by Acrisure into a shared identity. Acrisure holds 13 MGAs in the US, which together write more than $1bn in premium....

Compliance leaders at buy-side firms are confronting a stark reality: the old playbook for scaling their functions no longer works. According to ACA Group, for CCOs, COOs and CTOs, the question is no longer whether they can keep up with regulation, but whether their operating models can survive an environment defined by mounting operational complexity, accelerating technological change, intensifying investor...

Market-moving stories rarely break where most monitoring tools are looking. According to a new data-led guide from media intelligence firm Opoint, material events consistently surface in local-language press hours before international wire services pick them up, leaving investment and supply chain teams making decisions on stale information. The problem, Opoint argues in the guide, is not process but sources. Most...

Infinite has unveiled a two-way integration with Sardine, the fraud, risk and payments specialist, aimed at tightening the link between risk intelligence and compliant money movement. Under the tie-up, Infinite users can feed Sardine's live risk signals, spanning device intelligence, behavioural biometrics, transaction risk data and network-wide patterns drawn from Sardine's financial customer base, straight into their compliance workflows. In...

Most B2B businesses measure their onboarding processes against one benchmark: regulatory compliance. Far fewer ask the harder commercial question of how many customers actually complete it. According to Duna, that distinction carries a significant financial cost. Business onboarding, which encompasses know your customer (KYC) verification, anti-money laundering (AML) checks, and identity and verification (ID&V) processes, is not a back-office administrative...