Tag: AML

KYCP bets on perpetual monitoring as compliance risk grows

High-volume payments and digital asset firms are under growing pressure to move fast without cutting corners on compliance. Legacy KYC systems, often built around...

FATF exposes hawala networks fuelling money laundering

The FATF has published a new report warning that underground banking, hawala and other similar service providers (HOSSPs) are increasingly being exploited by professional...

Why FinTechs can’t relax once AMLA takes charge

The EU's new Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AMLA), passed by the European Parliament in 2024, is designed to...

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...

Compliance leaders bet on AI agents to cut false positives

AI agents have moved from conference buzzword to boardroom priority, but for financial crime compliance (FCC) leaders, turning that interest into measurable results remains...

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...

Compliance’s AI rebuild: why the old stack won’t survive

Y Combinator's naming of AI-native compliance infrastructure as a Fall 2026 request for startups has put a label on a shift that has been...

AI won’t fix AML if the foundations are still broken

Financial crime compliance is struggling to keep pace with the threats it was built to catch, according to new analysis from Napier AI. The Financial...

Hawk’s AI agent matches analyst accuracy in AML reviews

Alviere, a company that offers a variety of financial products, has been testing whether agentic AI can perform anti-money laundering investigations to the same...

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...

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