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...
The governance excuse regulators won’t accept anymore
A $200m enforcement case in the DIFC did not start with a rogue trader or a fraud scheme. It started with a board that...
Why banks risk falling behind on AI compliance agents
Banks could unlock productivity gains of up to 20 times by deploying a workforce of AI agents, according to McKinsey.
The consultancy's estimate rests...
PSD3 and PSR: the compliance clock is ticking
The European Union's overhaul of its payments framework is edging closer to reality, and payment institutions (PIs) and e-money institutions (EMIs) are being urged...
Sumsub, Orochi target Vietnam’s new digital asset rules
Sumsub and Orochi Network have entered a strategic partnership aimed at helping Web3 and digital-asset businesses across Southeast Asia prepare for compliance as Vietnam...
