Tag: risk assessment

Many organisations start out convinced that building a financial crime risk assessment platform internally will deliver better control, lower costs and the flexibility to...

KYC360 recently hosted a session at the School of International Financial Services (SIFS) examining one of compliance's most persistent headaches: managing know-your-customer (KYC) obligations...

The risk-based approach (RBA) has been a cornerstone of anti-money laundering (AML) compliance. Yet, the RBA has largely been deployed as a static governance...

For decades, financial crime risk assessments operated on a deceptively simple premise: capture organisational risk once a year, consolidate it into a weighty report,...

Community banks in 2026 find themselves navigating a regulatory environment that is, somewhat paradoxically, both more accommodating and more stringent than before. According to Alessa,...

When organisations consider building a financial crime risk assessment platform in-house, the underlying assumption is almost always the same: it will be cheaper than...

Across every sector, there is a recurring moment that quietly costs organisations millions. A spreadsheet-based process becomes unwieldy, someone in the room suggests that...

Technology, governance and methodology all play a part in shaping a financial crime risk assessment, but none of them determine whether it is truly...

Financial planners and investment advisers sit at the heart of long-term wealth decisions, often balancing close client relationships with product distribution and portfolio construction. While...

Many compliance teams know the feeling: a risk event hits the headlines, the business starts asking questions, and yet your alert queues stay quiet—until...