Tag: Compliance

Does regulatory reporting need a rethink?

Regulatory reporting is a core pillar of compliance within financial institutions, but costs and complexity continue to rise, creating a host of challenges. The Bank...

Why banks need to break regulatory data silos

Risk, finance and regulatory reporting have traditionally operated as separate functions across financial institutions. While this structure has allowed teams to develop specialised processes,...

Continuous KYC isn’t enough as risk moves in real time

For decades, financial institutions built their compliance programmes on one core assumption: risk could be assessed on a schedule. According to Saifr, customer due diligence...

GRC failures happen at the joins, not within the steps

Governance, risk and compliance have operated as three separate disciplines for decades, but GRC makes the case for running them as one connected system...

The hidden architecture behind approve, deny and review

Automated decisioning is the use of predefined rules, data integrations and scoring models to evaluate an application, transaction or identity check, returning an approve,...

Bet365’s AML failures trigger enforceable undertaking

Australian regulator AUSTRAC has compelled bet365 to sign a court-enforceable undertaking after uncovering serious gaps in how the online bookmaker assesses money laundering risk...

Why bank-grade AI is compliance’s new competitive edge

Consumer banks such as Revolut and Trade Republic have reset expectations across financial services, making banking so seamless that traditional institutions have struggled to...

The screening gap regulators expect you to close

Compliance teams often treat sanctions screening, PEP screening and adverse media screening as interchangeable checkboxes on an onboarding form. They are not. Each layer addresses...

Why German private banks are rethinking WealthTech vendor selection

Choosing a WealthTech platform ranks among the most consequential decisions a private bank can make, according to fincite, shaping how advisors work, how compliance...

Source of funds moves to the centre of UK compliance

Source of Funds compliance has spent much of the past decade as a background AML task, a box ticked on higher-value transactions rather than...

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