Tag: financial crime
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...
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...
FATF declares war on $500bn global fraud epidemic
Giles Thomson, the new president of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), has unveiled a multi-year roadmap to tackle fraud losses he says amount...
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....
The compliance blind spot costing FinTechs millions
Financial crime is growing more sophisticated, and compliance teams that still rely on disconnected fraud and AML systems risk falling behind both fraudsters and...
FinCEN’s new AML rule rewards banks that collaborate
FinCEN and the federal banking agencies have proposed a rule that could reshape how banks think about experimenting with new anti-money laundering technology, and...
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...
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...
Singapore moves to tighten anti-scam laws
Singapore's Ministry of Home Affairs has introduced the Scams (Countermeasures) and Other Matters Bill, tabled for its first reading in parliament on Tuesday, in...










