Tag: Anti-Money Laundering

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...

Why toxic culture is now a financial crime risk

When banks fail to stop money laundering, fraud or sanctions evasion, the coverage usually centres on penalties, technology gaps and broken processes. What rarely...

Blackdot taps Opoint to sharpen adverse media screening

Blackdot Solutions, a provider of intelligence and investigations software, has joined forces with Opoint, a worldwide media intelligence and news data firm, to feed...

Is your compliance function really ready for AI?

Banks and financial institutions are rushing to layer AI onto compliance operations that were never built to support it, according to identity verification and...

Spreadsheets are hiding your biggest financial crime risk

Many organisations believe their financial crime risk assessment is working simply because it gets done every year. The routine is well rehearsed. Spreadsheets are...

Why AML automation still needs human judgment

Anti-money laundering (AML) teams are under growing pressure to process more alerts and investigations without proportionally increasing headcount. Automation can help relieve that burden,...

The MLRO alone cannot protect firms from financial crime

Financial crime risk assessments are frequently treated as technical exercises built on structured frameworks, scoring models, control inventories, residual risk calculations and data analysis. According...

Napier AI warns opaque AI could cost firms their licence

As artificial intelligence spreads across financial services, a growing argument suggests that opacity is not only unavoidable but sometimes desirable, a way to protect...

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