Tag: AML

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....

Continuous KYC isn’t enough as risk moves in real time

For decades, financial institutions built their compliance programmes on one core assumption: risk could be assessed on a schedule. According to Saifr, customer due diligence...

The hidden architecture behind approve, deny and review

Automated decisioning is the use of predefined rules, data integrations and scoring models to evaluate an application, transaction or identity check, returning an approve,...

Bet365’s AML failures trigger enforceable undertaking

Australian regulator AUSTRAC has compelled bet365 to sign a court-enforceable undertaking after uncovering serious gaps in how the online bookmaker assesses money laundering risk...

The screening gap regulators expect you to close

Compliance teams often treat sanctions screening, PEP screening and adverse media screening as interchangeable checkboxes on an onboarding form. They are not. Each layer addresses...

Static AML models are failing, adaptive scoring is the fix

Financial institutions have long treated fraud and anti-money laundering (AML) as separate disciplines, run on separate timelines by separate teams. Fraud detection demands split-second...

Source of funds moves to the centre of UK compliance

Source of Funds compliance has spent much of the past decade as a background AML task, a box ticked on higher-value transactions rather than...

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...

RegTech’s AI shift puts analyst expertise at a premium

Compliance analysts are meant to be investigating risk and stopping fraud, yet much of their day is consumed by chasing documents and verifying paperwork....

Regulatory chaos costs firms millions, so what’s the fix?

Payments and gambling firms are haemorrhaging money on regulatory monitoring, with some compliance teams spending up to 40% of their time simply checking whether...

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