Tag: customer due diligence

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...

KYCP bets on perpetual monitoring as compliance risk grows

High-volume payments and digital asset firms are under growing pressure to move fast without cutting corners on compliance. Legacy KYC systems, often built around...

RegTech’s AI shift puts analyst expertise at a premium

Compliance analysts are meant to be investigating risk and stopping fraud, yet much of their day is consumed by chasing documents and verifying paperwork....

Why FinTech’s best controls fail quietly, not loudly

Corlytics' latest Global Enforcement Report has surfaced an uncomfortable pattern: the organisations most often hit with regulatory enforcement rarely lacked controls altogether. According to Corlytics,...

CDD or EDD? The risk trigger firms must get right

CDD and EDD sit at the heart of every regulated firm's defences, yet the distinction between the two is often misunderstood. In short, CDD is...

EU AMLR: why firms can’t wait for 2027 to prepare

Financial institutions across Europe are facing a fundamental shift in how anti-money laundering compliance is designed, evidenced and supervised, as the EU's new AML...

The compliance gap EDD software is closing fast

The compliance landscape for regulated financial services firms has shifted considerably in recent years. Regulators are no longer willing to accept that enhanced due...

How document verification closes the fraud detection gap

As digital onboarding becomes the norm, businesses are finding themselves increasingly exposed to document fraud, and their existing processes are struggling to keep pace. According...

How to fix broken KYC records before regulators do

Regulated financial institutions are operating under sustained and intensifying scrutiny to keep customer records accurate, current and audit-ready. According to KYC360, recent enforcement actions by...

AML monitoring gaps are costing firms billions

Anti-money laundering compliance doesn't end the moment a customer clears an onboarding check. For regulated businesses, that milestone is simply the starting point of...

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