Exam fraud fines reveal the gap between policy and behaviour
Regulatory fines tend to reduce complicated failures to a single figure. The penalty is announced, headlines follow, firms issue statements and attention soon drifts...
RiskScout raises new round as bank fraud pressure mounts
RiskScout, a provider of combined BSA/AML compliance and fraud prevention software for banks and credit unions, has closed a fresh investment round after a...
Disconnected ISMS documents put certification at risk
Firms chasing ISO 27001 certification often hit the same wall. They go looking for practical ISMS examples and find vague templates built around fictional...
Sumsub bets on cross-sector rules for agentic AI in APAC
Sumsub has unveiled the Sumsub Agentic AI Council, a cross-sector body centred on the Asia-Pacific region that aims to shape how autonomous AI systems...
Deepfake threats push Modulate to a $25m audio AI raise
Modulate, the frontier audio AI firm, has secured $25m in fresh capital as organisations deploying voice agents discover that a transcript alone cannot reveal...
FCA mule review: why EMIs face the fastest-growing risk
The Financial Conduct Authority's latest review of money mule activity gives one of the sharpest views yet of how financial crime is changing across...
Why DORA, NIS2 and ISO 27001 make tech risk a legal duty
For EU-regulated firms, technology risk management is no longer simply good operational practice. It is a legal obligation, and DORA, NIS2 and ISO 27001...
LexisNexis bets on AI that retrains itself to stop fraud
LexisNexis Risk Solutions, the data analytics and risk intelligence provider, has rolled out a fraud scoring tool that retrains itself automatically, a move that...
Feedzai bets on embedded AI to cut fraud workloads
Feedzai, a provider of AI-native financial crime prevention technology, has introduced Farol, an embedded AI agent designed to cut the time banks spend investigating...
Skills gaps leave financial crime risk profiles exposed
Financial institutions have poured investment into sophisticated methodologies and advanced systems for assessing financial crime risk. Yet none of it delivers an accurate picture...
