Tag: Sanctions screening

Corporate lookalikes expose a costly AML compliance weakness

Corporate lookalikes are creating significant challenges for anti-money laundering (AML) and Know Your Business (KYB) checks, with similar company names, addresses and ownership details...

Why AMLA’s new CDD rules raise the stakes for compliance

Europe’s new anti-money laundering authority has finalised its customer due diligence rulebook, shifting the focus for financial institutions from collecting extensive customer data to...

Instant payments expose weaknesses in AML screening

A payment can pass through every routine check and still present a serious financial crime risk. A beneficiary name may resemble a sanctioned individual,...

Napier AI taps LSEG World-Check On Demand for screening

Napier AI, a financial crime compliance technology provider, has linked its Transaction Screening product with LSEG’s newly launched World-Check On Demand, giving financial institutions...

False positives threaten to overwhelm AML compliance

Financial crime is evolving at speed, and artificial intelligence is once again the driving force. Fraudsters are using AI to build ever more convincing...

Brickwood expands AML checks with FinScan screening deal

Brickwood Asset Management, an independent UK value equities investment firm, has selected FinScan, the anti-money laundering (AML) compliance business of Innovative Systems, to continuously...

AI agents take aim at the compliance false-positive crisis

Financial crime compliance (FCC) teams face a problem that headcount alone can no longer solve. Alert volumes keep rising, investigations sprawl across disconnected systems,...

Why sanctions lists alone leave compliance teams exposed

For financial institutions, the biggest sanctions risk may not be the names already on official lists, but the ones that have not been added...

Duna: deterministic rules are the key to bank-grade AI

Financial institutions racing to embed AI into their compliance operations face a stubborn problem: the technology does not always give the same answer twice....

Why AML automation still needs human judgment

Anti-money laundering (AML) teams are under growing pressure to process more alerts and investigations without proportionally increasing headcount. Automation can help relieve that burden,...

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