Tag: financial crime

AI is moving closer to the risk decision, but can...

Artificial intelligence is no longer limited to automating simple, repetitive compliance and risk tasks. Across financial services, firms are increasingly using AI to conduct...

How trafficking profits hide in everyday payments

Human trafficking generates an estimated $236bn in illegal profits each year, with much of that money moving through financial activity that can appear entirely...

Sumsub overhauls flagship course as fraud tactics evolve

Sumsub Academy, the free training arm of identity verification and compliance platform Sumsub, has relaunched its flagship course as AML Transaction Monitoring 2.0. The programme...

Explainability becomes AML’s new AI currency

Artificial intelligence has sharpened detection, cut false positives and surfaced patterns that rules-based anti-money laundering (AML) systems simply cannot see. Yet according to new analysis...

Locked out abroad: the identity gap Tomoarrow wants to close

Tomoarrow, a South Korean FinTech and RegTech company, has launched an eKYC solution designed to help international users verify their identities without needing locally...

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...

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...

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...

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