Tag: AML

Why agentic AI is closing the financial crime gap

A new breed of AI system is rapidly changing the way financial institutions approach crime prevention, according to SymphonyAI. Unlike the rule-based tools that have...

Approvely embeds Sumsub KYC into payments stack

Sumsub, a global identity verification and anti-fraud specialist, has formed a strategic partnership with Approvely, a FinTech infrastructure platform catering to regulated and high-risk...

AI and risk-based AML: how Australia is operationalising compliance

Australia's financial services industry is entering a new phase of AML and CTF compliance — one defined not by whether to adopt AI and...

Hawk’s AI agent automates AML investigations

Hawk, a provider of AI-powered anti-money laundering (AML), screening and fraud prevention solutions, has launched its AML Investigative Agent, designed to help financial institutions...

Financial crime risk assessments: The new regulatory standard

Regulatory scrutiny of financial crime risk assessments has intensified dramatically in recent years, marking the end of an era in which these documents were...

Child exploitation: The AML risk hiding in plain sight

The AML and financial crime community rarely confronts the subject of child sexual exploitation head-on, and in the view of Consilient, it is long...

Why real-time intelligence sharing is now a legal must

A decade ago, the notion of regulated financial institutions exchanging crime intelligence in real time felt far-fetched. Legal barriers loomed large, trust between banks...

Money laundering: Who spends most to fight back?

Money laundering is costing the global economy trillions, yet the nations bearing the heaviest burden are not always those spending the most to stop...

South Africa’s illegal gambling AML blind spot exposed

Responsible gambling messaging is ubiquitous across sport sponsorships and social media campaigns, yet South Africa's sprawling informal gambling market continues to operate largely unchecked....

The multilingual gap hiding financial crime risks

Financial crime rarely announces itself in English. Yet many anti-money laundering (AML) monitoring programmes are still structured as though it does. This mismatch between...

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