Tag: financial crime
How complacency blinds firms to financial crime threats
Most financial crime failures are not born of dramatic collapse or blatant negligence. Instead, they build slowly through hundreds of minor decisions, ignored warning...
FCA’s NFM rules put 38,000 firms’ evidence to the test
From 1 September 2026, the FCA Code of Conduct will extend to cover bullying, harassment and violence at every FCA-authorised organisation, dragging almost 38,000...
Regulators punish firms for ignoring their own controls in Q2
Global regulators handed out more than $931m in penalties above the $1m mark during the second quarter of 2026, the largest quarterly total in...
PEP screening pitfalls that expose FinTech compliance teams
A politically exposed persons check (PEP check) sits among the most consequential controls in any AML compliance programme. Done well, it surfaces elevated risk...
Salv Bridge hits five years as EU sharing rules loom
On 13 July 2021, a fraud analyst in Estonia noticed a phishing pattern spreading across SmartID logins and fired off a warning to a...
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...
Malaysia’s FATF upgrade puts AML effectiveness on trial
Malaysia's anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing (AML/CTF) regime hit a defining moment in early 2026, when the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) upgraded the...
How banks are winning the digital wallet fraud war
Phishing and fraud targeting digital wallets are surging globally, creating a growing challenge for banks and customers alike. Tieto Banktech recently delved into how...
Why asking AI agents beats telling them what to do
Professional services firms adopting AI agents may be approaching the technology with the wrong mindset, according to TAINA Technology’s Rich Kent, who argues that...
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