Tag: Sanctions screening

February 2026 payments rules banks and FinTechs can’t ignore

Each month, regulatory change continues to test the operational resilience of financial institutions, payment providers and FinTech firms. According to Vixio, using insights from...

What is an adverse media check and why it matters for...

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

The AML maturity curve and the rise of agentic compliance

Financial institutions, from established banks to fast-growing FinTechs, continue to face intensifying regulatory scrutiny alongside commercial pressure to improve anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing...

How AI is reshaping AML compliance in modern banking

Banks are under growing pressure to keep pace with increasingly complex financial crime. Transaction volumes continue to rise, laundering techniques evolve quickly, and legacy...

Screening vs monitoring: stopping fraud in payments

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

KYC sanctions: the six categories that shape controls

Sanctions failures rarely start with a suspicious transaction. More often, the damage is done at onboarding, when a weak rule, a missed alias, or...

Building an audit-ready EDD trail for high-risk clients

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

VASPs and financial crime risk: building defensible ML/TF/PF

Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASPs) have become a high-value target for organised criminal networks, largely because they enable fast, cross-border movement of value across...

Networked KYC: faster digital onboarding without risk

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

How banks are using AI in financial crime and compliance

Artificial intelligence has moved firmly into the mainstream of bank compliance operations, according to new research carried out by Hawk and Chartis. The study shows...

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