Tag: Financial Crime Compliance
How agentic AI solves EU’s new opacity assessment rule
Most compliance programmes can answer the question "who owns this entity?" What they cannot reliably answer is whether a corporate structure has been deliberately...
AUSTRAC sets 2026 deadlines for AML/CTF reform compliance
AUSTRAC has finalised its transitional and amendment rules under the sweeping AML/CTF reform programme, setting out clear timeframes and requirements for both existing reporting...
How AMLA is reshaping financial crime compliance
The European Union's newly created Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA) took a landmark step on 24 March 2026, hosting its first public hearing on draft...
AI and risk-based AML: how Australia is operationalising compliance
Australia's financial services industry is entering a new phase of AML and CTF compliance — one defined not by whether to adopt AI and...
Hawk’s AI agent automates AML investigations
Hawk, a provider of AI-powered anti-money laundering (AML), screening and fraud prevention solutions, has launched its AML Investigative Agent, designed to help financial institutions...
Financial crime risk assessments: The new regulatory standard
Regulatory scrutiny of financial crime risk assessments has intensified dramatically in recent years, marking the end of an era in which these documents were...
The multilingual gap hiding financial crime risks
Financial crime rarely announces itself in English. Yet many anti-money laundering (AML) monitoring programmes are still structured as though it does. This mismatch between...
Is model governance slowing AI in financial crime?
A new report from Hawk and Chartis has found that nine in ten financial institutions now actively encourage the use of artificial intelligence in...
OPBAS findings highlight need for stronger AML controls
RegTech provider SmartSearch has warned that anti-money laundering (AML) standards must improve across the legal and accountancy sectors following the publication of a new...
Napier AI launches Insights AI in transaction monitoring
Napier AI, a RegTech providing financial crime compliance software to institutions worldwide, has launched its Insights AI feature within its Transaction Monitoring solution, following...










