Tag: financial crime

How Fraud-as-a-Service is reshaping financial crime

Fraud is increasingly being organised as a service, with criminal groups able to buy data, infrastructure, tools and specialist expertise rather than developing every...

LSEG launches Active Intelligence to sharpen World-Check

LSEG Risk Intelligence, the risk data and screening division of LSEG, has rolled out Active Intelligence, a new data engine underpinning its World-Check offering...

UK AML strategy puts data and intelligence at centre of financial...

The UK is set to reshape its approach to anti-money laundering (AML) over the next three years, with a new government strategy calling for...

Marble lands €6.5m to automate fraud and AML compliance

Marble, a Paris-based fraud detection and anti-money laundering (AML) compliance platform, has secured €6.5m in Series A funding as it looks to make AI-driven...

Money mules shift to EMIs and challenger banks, FCA finds

The FCA's latest review of money mule activity paints a detailed picture of how financial crime is shifting across the UK's regulated sector. Beyond...

Uneven human capability is weakening financial crime checks

Firms can invest heavily in sophisticated systems and refined methodologies, but neither will produce a reliable financial crime risk assessment without capable people behind...

UK and Cambodia pact targets Southeast Asia scam centres

The UK government has struck a new agreement with Cambodia that brings the fight against industrial-scale online fraud directly to one of the world's...

Culture, not code, is sinking financial crime compliance

Financial institutions keep spending heavily on compliance technology, yet the most damaging control failures continue to trace back to something no software can fix. According...

FCA warns laundering networks outpace mule crackdown

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the UK's financial regulator, has revealed that firms shut down 238,396 suspected money mule accounts in 2025. Its research also...

Tick-box AML is failing law firms, SRA data shows

Anti-money laundering compliance at law firms can easily become a routine of completed forms. The client is identified, sanctions and PEP screening is done...

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