FCA maps AI risks and rewards for retail finance
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the UK's financial services regulator, has released a landmark study examining how artificial intelligence could transform retail financial services...
The confidence trap in financial crime risk assessments
Ask most organisations how mature their financial crime risk assessment capabilities are and the answers tend to be strikingly confident. Years of running assessments,...
Why reboarding is compliance’s biggest hidden burden
Every new business customer a financial institution signs creates years of compliance work down the line. According to Duna, reboarding can account for as...
Can banks trust AI agents? MAS unveils SAFR framework
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), the city state's central bank and financial regulator, has joined forces with major financial institutions and FinTechs to...
Why FinCEN’s new AML rule changes everything for RIAs
With FinCEN's new anti-money laundering rule taking effect on 1 January 2026, SEC-registered investment advisers are entering unfamiliar territory, where compliance stretches far beyond...
Tokenised equities force tax regimes to collide
The migration of traditional equities onto blockchain infrastructure is shifting from experiment to institutional reality, but according to RegTech firm TAINA Technology, the industry...
FATCA and CRS clean-up cycles must end before CRS 2.0
For most firms, reporting season ends with submission. The file is prepared, checked and lodged with the tax authority, and exhausted teams move on....
UK takes FATF helm with fraud crackdown at the core
The United Kingdom, home of the global RegTech and financial crime compliance industry's key policymakers, has assumed the Presidency of the Financial Action Task...
LexisNexis partnership to tackle mobile fraud blindspots
LexisNexis Risk Solutions, the global risk intelligence provider, has formed a strategic alliance with Promon, a mobile application security specialist, to strengthen fraud prevention...
Agentic AI is reshaping financial crime compliance
Financial crime compliance has passed through three distinct eras. First came human-led investigation, then rules-based automation, and now a third wave is beginning to...