Tag: AML Compliance

From rubber stamp to real challenge: the board’s risk duty

Across every major jurisdiction, a clear regulatory message has taken hold: boards are no longer passive recipients of financial crime risk assessments. They are...

Why manual KYC is now a strategic liability

Compliance teams at regulated firms are caught in a losing battle. Half their working day is absorbed by repetitive, manual tasks — yet the...

IDENTT taps Hopae to unlock cross-border eID access

Hopae, a global digital identity infrastructure platform, has formed a strategic partnership with IDENTT, a prominent player in Poland's identity verification market, to bring...

How to fix KYC records before regulators demand it

Regulated financial institutions face mounting pressure to keep customer records not merely compliant at the point of onboarding, but continuously accurate, auditable and inspection-ready....

BOI reporting in 2026: what compliance teams must know

The rules governing beneficial ownership information reporting have undergone a dramatic transformation since the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) came into force — and compliance...

KYCP’s recycle bin update closes a compliance gap

KYCP has rolled out a significant update to how records are deleted within its system, introducing a recycle bin function that gives compliance teams...

FinCEN sounds the alarm on World Cup financial crime

The 2026 FIFA World Cup is on the horizon, and while the spotlight will fall on football pitches across the United States, Canada, and...

The true cost of poor AML compliance in 2026

Eight in ten UK businesses would walk away from a partner following a single compliance breach — not scale back the relationship, not increase...

How estate agents can beat property fraud in 2026

The UK property market remains one of the most attractive targets for financial crime, and compliance is no longer an optional extra for estate...

How agentic AI solves EU’s new opacity assessment rule

Most compliance programmes can answer the question "who owns this entity?" What they cannot reliably answer is whether a corporate structure has been deliberately...

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