Tag: Sanctions screening

FinScan has announced that its payments platform now covers stablecoin transactions and digital wallet screening for global compliance purposes. The update to FinScan Payments extends...

Financial crime compliance has been fundamentally reshaped by converging pressures: mounting regulatory complexity, intensifying enforcement, and increasingly sophisticated criminal activity. Legacy approaches are buckling under...

For many Electronic Money Institutions (EMIs), the following scenario will ring uncomfortably true: a screening tool flags a customer; moments later, the monitoring engine...

A major US financial institution has dramatically reduced the burden of sanctions compliance after deploying AI-powered agents from SymphonyAI, achieving a 90% reduction in...

Eight in ten UK businesses would walk away from a partner following a single compliance breach — not scale back the relationship, not increase...

The UK property market remains one of the most attractive targets for financial crime, and compliance is no longer an optional extra for estate...

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,...

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...

The European Union's newly created Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA) took a landmark step on 24 March 2026, hosting its first public hearing on draft...