Tag: MCO

Daragh Tracey on KYC’s growing importance for financial crime compliance. Financial crime prevention rarely collapses because one control fails. Problems tend to develop in the...

After years of enforcement-led regulation with no formal rulebook, US financial regulators have finally drawn the map. On 17 March 2026, the Securities and...

French investment banks face growing pressure to strengthen conflicts of interest frameworks as the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) raises the bar on compliance...

Compliance programmes rarely fail because policies do not exist, they fail when employees cannot apply those policies consistently at the point of decision. That...

Know Your Business (KYB) has become a critical pillar of modern compliance workflows, enabling regulated firms to verify the legitimacy, ownership, and risk profile...

A total of $5.4bn was issued in fines globally during 2025, showing the significant financial damages firms can face for missing or mismanaging their...

Risk management is one of the core foundations of a firm’s compliance workflow. When implemented effectively, risk management helps ensure compliance processes are not...

Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has fined a responsible officer at a licensed securities firm HK$1m and handed down a four-and-a-half-year industry...

Two sweeping pieces of US legislation are forcing financial firms to fundamentally rethink how they approach digital asset compliance, according to analysis from MCO (MyComplianceOffice).

For several years, perpetual KYC (pKYC) has been pitched as the next evolution of traditional KYC methods, but firms still have misconceptions around what it really means.