Tag: fraud detection
AI is moving closer to the risk decision, but can...
Artificial intelligence is no longer limited to automating simple, repetitive compliance and risk tasks. Across financial services, firms are increasingly using AI to conduct...
Continuous KYC isn’t enough as risk moves in real time
For decades, financial institutions built their compliance programmes on one core assumption: risk could be assessed on a schedule.
According to Saifr, customer due diligence...
The hidden architecture behind approve, deny and review
Automated decisioning is the use of predefined rules, data integrations and scoring models to evaluate an application, transaction or identity check, returning an approve,...
Static AML models are failing, adaptive scoring is the fix
Financial institutions have long treated fraud and anti-money laundering (AML) as separate disciplines, run on separate timelines by separate teams. Fraud detection demands split-second...
The compliance blind spot costing FinTechs millions
Financial crime is growing more sophisticated, and compliance teams that still rely on disconnected fraud and AML systems risk falling behind both fraudsters and...
Static KYC is failing FinTech’s fight against financial crime
Customer risk does not wait for a calendar. Between one scheduled KYC review and the next, a director can be replaced, a beneficial owner...
AI agents move from pilot to workforce in bank compliance
Banks could unlock productivity gains of up to 20 times by deploying a workforce of AI agents, according to McKinsey. The consultancy's estimate rests...
Edge partners with Socure on early fraud screening
Edge, the cashflow bureau that converts bank transaction data into explainable, machine learning-driven scores for lending and rental screening, has announced a new partnership...
Malaysia’s FATF upgrade puts AML effectiveness on trial
Malaysia's anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing (AML/CTF) regime hit a defining moment in early 2026, when the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) upgraded the...
Can COFI end South Africa’s siloed compliance crisis?
South Africa loses an estimated R100bn a year to financial crime, yet the institutions meant to stop it still work in silos. Organised crime...










