FRAML strategy demands more than scheduled KYC reviews
Customer risk does not wait for a scheduled review date. A director can change, an address can be updated, or adverse media can emerge,...
Wordwatch unveils tool to help firms gauge non-financial misconduct investigation readiness
Global RegTech firm Wordwatch has introduced an investigation readiness assessment tool in line with the FCA’s Conduct Rules extension on September 1, 2026.
The assessment...
What are the biggest barriers to third-party RegTech adoption?
RegTech has moved from an emerging technology category to an increasingly important part of the compliance stack. Yet while vendors continue to invest heavily...
FINRA swaps watchdog bite for neighbourly nudge
A year on from predictions that Washington's deregulatory mood would soften America's markets regulator, FINRA's own progress report suggests the forecast has landed.
According to...
Financial crime risk assessments are failing on governance
Financial crime risk assessments look technical on the surface, but underneath they depend on something far less visible: governance. Building one properly draws in...
The FCA rewrite every AIFM must watch
Alternative investment fund managers in the UK have a new date to watch: 14 July 2026, when the FCA and HM Treasury signalled that...
Money laundering database plan unravels as FinCEN retreats
One of the biggest new US anti-money laundering reporting regimes has effectively just been dismantled, after FinCEN finalised sweeping changes to the Corporate Transparency...
Why compliance teams can’t wait for AI-specific regulation
Financial regulators across the US, UK and UAE are converging on a single message: existing rules already apply to artificial intelligence, and firms cannot...
South Korea moves to police AI risk in finance
The Financial Security Institute has built a new framework to help lenders and other financial firms manage the dangers posed by artificial intelligence.
According to...
Why more AI alerts could mean better AML, not worse
Napier AI's Michael Joseph attended a recent ACAMS New Jersey chapter discussion on the shift from threshold-based transaction monitoring (TM) to AI-driven systems, alongside...
