Tag: Anti-Money Laundering
Fragmented workflows threaten financial crime risk credibility
A financial crime risk assessment can only be as reliable as the framework underpinning it. Firms that treat methodology, governance and workflow as administrative...
Legacy systems threaten AI ambitions in compliance
Financial institutions are layering AI onto compliance operations that were never built to support it, and that mismatch could undermine the automation gains many...
FIS opens AML agent to non-clients as alert volumes soar
FIS, the provider of core banking, payments and data infrastructure, has made its AML Investigations Agent commercially available to every US-based bank, opening the...
Why holding data too long could cost EU firms millions
For years, many organisations have treated storage as cheap and deletion as optional. Under European regulation that habit is turning into a compliance problem....
FINTRAC enrolment puts Canadian firms in the spotlight
Thousands of Canadian businesses subject to the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act have never had to formally register with the...
When compliance instincts cost you money at home
Years spent hunting for red flags can rewire the way compliance professionals see the world. Unusual transactions, oddly phrased emails and businesses that never...
Fear and groupthink are distorting your risk assessments
Firms invest heavily in scoring models, regulatory alignment and workflow design for their financial crime risk assessments. Yet the most influential variable in these...
American Express hit with $350m AML penalty
American Express has been ordered to pay a $350m penalty by US regulators after its AML safeguards allowed roughly $13bn in suspected illicit activity...
RiskSmart and Lagom race to fix football’s GRC gap
RiskSmart has moved into professional football through a referral agreement with Lagom Sports Compliance, a specialist GRC and anti-financial crime advisory focused solely on...
Can your AI compliance decisions survive a regulator’s audit?
As financial institutions lean more heavily on AI to support compliance decisions, a pressing question is emerging: can they prove how those decisions were...










