Tag: FinCEN

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...

Why fraud monitoring rules are tightening for banks worldwide

Fraud monitoring has shifted from a discretionary control to a core prudential and conduct requirement across every major regulatory jurisdiction. Financial institutions that fail...

GenAI threatens investment firms from both sides

Investment firms have long sold trust as their core product, but generative AI is now testing that promise from every angle. According to ComplyAdvantage,...

FinCEN’s new AML rule rewards banks that collaborate

FinCEN and the federal banking agencies have proposed a rule that could reshape how banks think about experimenting with new anti-money laundering technology, and...

FinCEN scraps beneficial ownership rules for US firms

One of the biggest new US anti-money laundering reporting regimes has effectively just been dismantled, after FinCEN finalised sweeping changes to the Corporate Transparency...

Why more AI alerts could mean better AML, not worse

Napier AI's Michael Joseph attended a recent ACAMS New Jersey chapter discussion on the shift from threshold-based transaction monitoring (TM) to AI-driven systems, alongside...

Napier AI: detection, not efficiency, is AML’s real test

Napier AI has weighed in on one of the thorniest debates in financial crime compliance: the gap between what artificial intelligence can theoretically do...

UBS hit with $8m CFTC fine over AML monitoring gaps

UBS Financial Services has been ordered by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to pay an $8m civil monetary penalty over failures to properly supervise...

Why weak data quietly breaks AML risk scoring models

When alert queues grow faster than compliance teams can handle, genuine financial crime risk can vanish into the noise. According to ComplyAdvantage, the root...

Why structuring remains AML’s hardest problem to spot

Large cash transactions are easy to spot. But a series of smaller transactions spread across days, branches or accounts can be far harder to...

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