Tag: KYC

Identomat revamps verification to cut onboarding friction

Identomat, an identity verification platform provider, has launched a major update to its verification technology, redesigning the user journey to make digital onboarding faster...

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...

Neobanks race to cut KYC friction without inviting fraud

Neobanks have built their reputation on speed. Customers expect to open an account from a phone in minutes, without a branch visit, a stack...

Compliance leaders bet on AI agents to cut false positives

AI agents have moved from conference buzzword to boardroom priority, but for financial crime compliance (FCC) leaders, turning that interest into measurable results remains...

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...

Compliance’s AI rebuild: why the old stack won’t survive

Y Combinator's naming of AI-native compliance infrastructure as a Fall 2026 request for startups has put a label on a shift that has been...

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...

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,...

The real cost of building financial crime tools in-house

It is a familiar boardroom moment. A compliance team flags the need to modernise its financial crime risk assessment process, and someone from IT...

The identity problem

Identity has become one of the most important fault lines in modern financial crime. As financial services move further into digital channels, the question...

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