Tag: Compliance
FINRA loosens grip as deregulation push accelerates
Back in early 2025, the LeGaye Law Firm wrote, “The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), while not a federal agency, operates under the supervision...
Fragmented ownership is breaking financial crime controls
Financial crime risk assessments only work when governance holds everything together. These assessments pull input from business units, risk and compliance teams, technology functions,...
FinCEN scraps beneficial ownership rules for US firms
One of the biggest new US anti-money laundering reporting regimes has effectively just been dismantled, after FinCEN finalised sweeping changes to the Corporate Transparency...
AI governance gap puts financial firms at examination risk
Financial regulators across the US, UK and UAE are converging on a single message: firms do not need to wait for AI-specific rules before...
Why more AI alerts could mean better AML, not worse
Napier AI's Michael Joseph attended a recent ACAMS New Jersey chapter discussion on the shift from threshold-based transaction monitoring (TM) to AI-driven systems, alongside...
DIFC’s $200m case exposes board governance blind spot
A $200m enforcement case in the DIFC did not begin with a rogue trader or a fraudulent scheme. It began with a board that...
AI agents move from pilot to workforce in bank compliance
Banks could unlock productivity gains of up to 20 times by deploying a workforce of AI agents, according to McKinsey. The consultancy's estimate rests...
Why compliance chiefs are rethinking risk screening now
Financial institutions are under growing pressure to do more than simply flag suspicious activity. Regulators now expect firms to prove, document and defend every...
Summa Tech, SmartSearch team up on AML compliance
Summa Tech, the company behind cloud-based client onboarding platform Onboarder, has introduced an anti-money laundering checking feature within the tool.
The addition allows AML checks...
BGL and OnboardMe partner on AML/CTF compliance
BGL has partnered with OnboardMe, a client onboarding platform, to help accounting firms manage AML/CTF compliance more efficiently.










