Tag: financial crime

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...

Refund fraud is exposing a new AML blind spot

Chargebacks and refunds have traditionally been treated as separate fraud and operational issues, but repeated payment reversals can reveal patterns that extend beyond individual...

Why AML automation still needs human judgment

Anti-money laundering (AML) teams are under growing pressure to process more alerts and investigations without proportionally increasing headcount. Automation can help relieve that burden,...

Single checks are failing firms against identity fraud

Remote onboarding has made it faster and easier for customers to open accounts with banks and FinTechs. It has also given fraudsters new ways...

The MLRO alone cannot protect firms from financial crime

Financial crime risk assessments are frequently treated as technical exercises built on structured frameworks, scoring models, control inventories, residual risk calculations and data analysis. According...

Oracle bets on AI agents to ease financial crime backlogs

Oracle Financial Services, the technology giant's banking-focused division, has launched two agentic AI tools, Oracle Nexus Case Flow and Oracle Nexus Reach. The tools are...

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