Tag: PEP Screening

Financial rules and regulations continue to evolve at pace, placing growing pressure on financial institutions to remain informed, agile and compliant. At the heart...

Fraud no longer arrives as a single, obvious red flag. It travels through everyday payments, often disguised as legitimate activity, and that makes it...

Financial institutions know that regulators rarely judge an AML programme on policy documents alone. When examiners test whether controls work in practice, they often...

Financial institutions are under growing pressure to onboard clients at speed, without slipping on regulatory expectations that demand traceability, governance and evidence. Commercial teams...

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...

Early signals from compliance teams suggest that sanctions screening is entering a decisive phase, shaped by geopolitical instability, expanding watchlists, and a clear regulatory...

PEP screening has become a central pillar of AML compliance as financial crime risks continue to grow in scale and complexity. For financial institutions,...

As financial services firms continue to modernise their compliance operations, many are recognising that legacy, manual approaches are no longer suited to today’s escalating...

The latest Napier AI / AML Index 2025-2026 reveals that compliance costs are rising faster than money laundering losses, even in markets that have...

When a suspicious transaction triggers an alert inside a major financial institution, an analyst’s first task is usually to collect data rather than assess...