Tag: KYC
SmartSearch completes Credas deal to enhance RegTech platform
SmartSearch, an Ilkley-based digital compliance specialist, and Credas Technologies have confirmed the completion of an acquisition that brings the two RegTech businesses together to...
How 2025 AML changes are reshaping UK compliance
The UK’s AML framework has undergone meaningful change in 2025, with policymakers introducing new processes aimed at strengthening accountability, closing long-standing gaps, and improving...
Five fraud trends that defined the financial crime landscape in 2025
The past year proved to be one of the most intense on record for threat intelligence teams operating across the financial crime landscape. Throughout...
Managing AML risk in cross-border payments and real-time rails
The rapid expansion of real-time global commerce, digital banking and borderless FinTech services has fundamentally reshaped how money moves across borders.
Consumers and businesses...
How a fragmented world is redefining AML and risk intelligence
A fragmented global landscape shaped by geopolitical rivalry, regulatory divergence, supply-chain realignment and weakening international cooperation is fundamentally changing how financial crime risk manifests.
For...
How fraud detection rules are evolving in 2026
In 2024, consumers and businesses reported losses of more than $12.5bn to fraud, representing a 25% year-on-year increase.
According to AiPrise, the scale of this...
The shift to agentic AI in modern financial crime prevention
Building on this shift, SymphonyAI also points to a cultural change that must accompany technology modernisation.
SymphonyAI, a provider of AI for financial crime prevention,...
Balancing AML intelligence sharing with data privacy
Tokenisation is increasingly being viewed as a critical mechanism for resolving one of financial services’ most persistent tensions: the need to share AML intelligence...
10 AML typologies every bank must watch in 2026
Money laundering continues to evolve at pace, with criminal networks adapting quickly to new payment technologies, digital channels and cross-border infrastructures.
As financial crime becomes...
Top KYC failure reasons businesses must fix in 2025–26
KYC failure is becoming a persistent problem for financial services firms as fraud techniques grow more advanced and regulatory expectations tighten. In 2024 alone,...










