Tag: financial crime

The AML risk hiding beyond sanctions screening

A customer can clear sanctions and politically exposed person (PEP) checks while still presenting risks that structured screening does not identify. A company director...

Footprint bags $25m to arm banks against AI-driven crime

Footprint, the AI operating system for risk and compliance, has closed a $25m Series B funding round to accelerate the rollout of its agentic...

Casino AML fines expose the true price of inaction

Casino compliance teams working in anti-money laundering (AML) hardly need reminding that failures in this area can prove costly. The Venetian's recent $7.2m settlement,...

Why MLROs must learn to sell, not just assess risk

Money laundering reporting officers are no longer judged purely on how well they spot financial crime. Increasingly, they are judged on how well they...

Nasdaq Verafin-Stablecore tie-up targets digital asset crime

Nasdaq Verafin and Stablecore have entered a partnership designed to close the gap between fiat and digital asset financial crime monitoring. The tie-up channels digital...

Why KYB is getting harder to ignore in 2026

Know Your Business (KYB) is the process of confirming that a company is legally registered, genuinely exists, and is controlled by people who are...

Adverse media screening becomes a 2026 compliance must

Regulated firms are being forced to treat adverse media screening as a frontline compliance control rather than a secondary check, as a wave of...

Poor adverse media screening is fuelling AML false positives

Adverse media screening is too often treated as a box-ticking obligation rather than a genuine early-warning system, and that mindset is leaving financial institutions...

Digital channels are rewriting financial crime exposure

The way financial products reach customers has changed beyond recognition, and with it, the shape of financial crime risk. Branches, telephone banking and card...

Has AML and KYC become too fragmented?

Financial crime is becoming faster, more connected and increasingly difficult to detect through isolated compliance checks. As financial institutions add more AML, KYC, fraud...

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