Tag: financial crime
FATF exposes hawala networks fuelling money laundering
The FATF has published a new report warning that underground banking, hawala and other similar service providers (HOSSPs) are increasingly being exploited by professional...
Why FinTechs can’t relax once AMLA takes charge
The EU's new Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AMLA), passed by the European Parliament in 2024, is designed to...
Fraud as a service outpaces banks stuck in silos
Fraud has never been cheaper or easier to commit. Fraud-as-a-service and phishing-as-a-service now sell ready-made attacks off the shelf, letting an ordinary criminal rent...
Hawk’s AI agent matches analyst accuracy in AML reviews
Alviere, a company that offers a variety of financial products, has been testing whether agentic AI can perform anti-money laundering investigations to the same...
Legacy risk models can’t keep up with modern crime
Financial crime has evolved faster in the last five years than in the previous two decades, yet many institutions are still assessing risk with...
Ripjar strengthens leadership with two senior hires
Ripjar, the UK-based financial crime compliance technology provider known for its smarter screening and risk intelligence tools, has bolstered its senior leadership team with...
Gold laundering puts banks on the AML front line
Two major financial crime institutions are putting greater emphasis on fragmented data and cross-border intelligence sharing, creating a growing challenge for banks exposed to...
Sayari, DataExpert target financial crime across Europe
US AI platform Sayari has partnered with DataExpert to bring sovereign AI capabilities to government, law enforcement, defence and financial intelligence agencies across eight...
AI cuts KYC drudgery, but who keeps the final call?
KYC and AML compliance work absorbs enormous analyst time, yet most of that time isn't spent on genuine judgment calls. It's spent wrangling documents,...
Nasdaq Verafin taps Q6 Cyber to close dark web fraud gap
Nasdaq Verafin has partnered with Q6 Cyber to combine dark web monitoring with consortium transaction data on a single platform, aiming to help banks...










