Tag: financial crime

Why toxic culture is now a financial crime risk

When banks fail to stop money laundering, fraud or sanctions evasion, the coverage usually centres on penalties, technology gaps and broken processes. What rarely...

Agentic payments expose blind spots in fraud controls

As AI agents begin making purchases for customers, the financial crime controls built around human behaviour may be looking in the wrong place. According...

Banks risk missing mule networks beyond the first hop

Fraud proceeds rarely remain in the account where they first arrive. Money stolen through scams, account takeovers and payment fraud can be transferred through...

Is your compliance function really ready for AI?

Banks and financial institutions are rushing to layer AI onto compliance operations that were never built to support it, according to identity verification and...

Spreadsheets are hiding your biggest financial crime risk

Many organisations believe their financial crime risk assessment is working simply because it gets done every year. The routine is well rehearsed. Spreadsheets are...

Life insurers’ AML blind spots leave door open to launderers

Banks have long borne the brunt of regulatory scrutiny over anti-money laundering (AML) controls, but life insurers handling large premiums are increasingly attracting the...

Altery cuts due diligence from hours to minutes with AI

Payments firm Altery has cut due diligence investigations from hours to minutes, reduced false positives and absorbed rising onboarding volumes without adding compliance staff,...

Why sanctions lists alone leave compliance teams exposed

For financial institutions, the biggest sanctions risk may not be the names already on official lists, but the ones that have not been added...

WorkFusion’s Isaac rethinks the AML investigator’s role

Financial crime investigators are employed to investigate. In practice, much of their working day goes on something else: trawling through systems, gathering data, compiling...

Sardine bets on foundation models to outpace fraud rings

Sardine has unveiled Sardine AI Labs, a dedicated applied research unit, alongside $375,000 in research fellowships aimed at pushing frontier AI into fraud and...

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