Tag: AML

Marble lands €6.5m to automate fraud and AML compliance

Marble, a Paris-based fraud detection and anti-money laundering (AML) compliance platform, has secured €6.5m in Series A funding as it looks to make AI-driven...

Money mules shift to EMIs and challenger banks, FCA finds

The FCA's latest review of money mule activity paints a detailed picture of how financial crime is shifting across the UK's regulated sector. Beyond...

Banks face $230bn payments hit as stablecoins scale

Capgemini has warned that banks could have up to $230bn in payments revenue at risk as stablecoins, tokenised deposits and central bank digital currencies...

Uneven human capability is weakening financial crime checks

Firms can invest heavily in sophisticated systems and refined methodologies, but neither will produce a reliable financial crime risk assessment without capable people behind...

Culture, not code, is sinking financial crime compliance

Financial institutions keep spending heavily on compliance technology, yet the most damaging control failures continue to trace back to something no software can fix. According...

South Africa’s CDD bar rises after FATF greylist exit

Customer due diligence (CDD) has grown from a simple know your customer (KYC) exercise into one of the most demanding parts of the anti-money...

Payments firms face rising risk from manual compliance

Payment firms operating across multiple markets are facing mounting pressure as regulatory change accelerates. Frameworks such as PSD2 and PSD3, AML and KYC rules,...

Tick-box AML is failing law firms, SRA data shows

Anti-money laundering compliance at law firms can easily become a routine of completed forms. The client is identified, sanctions and PEP screening is done...

The AML risk hiding beyond sanctions screening

A customer can clear sanctions and politically exposed person (PEP) checks while still presenting risks that structured screening does not identify. A company director...

Money laundering risks grow across film financing

Film financing is coming under greater scrutiny as complex corporate structures, international investment and fragmented production chains create potential gaps in financial crime controls. According...

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