Tag: Sanctions screening

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

As financial institutions accelerate their use of artificial intelligence to combat financial crime, explainability has moved from a technical consideration to a strategic priority. The...

For years, many lenders operated on the assumption that strong customer onboarding and sensible case handling were enough to satisfy financial crime compliance requirements....

The global sanctions and watchlist landscape has entered a period of sustained volatility, forcing financial institutions to reassess long-standing compliance models. Programmes that were...