Tag: Sanctions

Financial crime’s trillion-dollar toll drives RegTech push

Financial crime is growing in scale, sophistication and cost, and for regulated organisations, understanding the threat landscape has become a survival requirement rather than...

Salv Bridge hits five years as EU sharing rules loom

On 13 July 2021, a fraud analyst in Estonia noticed a phishing pattern spreading across SmartID logins and fired off a warning to a...

EU AMLR: why firms can’t wait for 2027 to prepare

Financial institutions across Europe are facing a fundamental shift in how anti-money laundering compliance is designed, evidenced and supervised, as the EU's new AML...

Estonia’s blueprint for beating the EU’s 2027 AMLR deadline

Most professionals in financial crime compliance come from law enforcement, audit or legal backgrounds. Siiri Graabi took a different route, arriving via the European...

StarCompliance unveils checklist for bank compliance teams

Bank compliance teams are being tested by a regulatory environment that is shifting faster than many can keep pace with. Artificial intelligence governance, operational...

The board’s role in AML risk is no longer optional

In every regulated organisation, the board of directors carries ultimate responsibility for ensuring that the financial crime risk framework is fit for purpose, effective...

ADGM FSRA tightens AML framework after industry review

The Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) of Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), the UAE's international financial centre, has concluded a review and update of...

Sherlocq launches AI regulatory intelligence platform

Sherlocq, an AI-native regulatory intelligence platform built for the global financial services industry, has officially launched to the public, marking what it describes as...

Rethinking inherent risk in modern financial crime

Inherent risk assessment sits at the heart of every financial crime risk framework. It answers the most fundamental question any organisation must ask: how...

How agentic AI transforms risk-based compliance

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...

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