SFC tightens grip on broker account opening failures
Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission (SFC), the city's primary markets regulator, has issued a stark warning to licensed securities brokers after a review...
ADGM upgrades financial crime rules to meet FATF standards
The Abu Dhabi Global Market's Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA), the financial watchdog overseeing one of the UAE's leading international financial centres, has completed...
Why KYC remediation needs to become business as usual
Regulated institutions are operating under mounting pressure to keep customer records accurate, current, and audit-ready. Enforcement activity is on the rise — recent Financial...
After the CTA rollback: who still files BOI reports?
The regulatory journey of beneficial ownership information (BOI) reporting has been anything but straightforward.
According to Alessa, since the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) took...
Why RegTech execution speed is compliance’s biggest risk
Awareness of regulatory change is no longer the hard part. Most compliance teams have some form of monitoring in place — alerts fire, updates...
WIDTH takes on compliance’s Frankenstein problem — and lands a spot in the FinCrime50
WIDTH, an AI-native all-in-one compliance platform, has been recognised among the FinCrime50 — a prestigious selection of the most innovative companies tackling financial crime....
KYCP tackles data retention complexity with new module
KYCP has launched a dedicated Data Retention Module, marking a significant upgrade in how compliance teams can manage their GDPR obligations.
Previously, meeting data retention...
Tax reporting 2026: the cost of doing nothing is rising
The 2026 Tax Reporting & Withholding Conference, held in Washington, D.C. from 4–6 May, brought together regulators, practitioners and industry leaders.
Comply Exchange has...
Norm Ai launches compliance agent for Microsoft 365
Norm Ai, a legal and compliance technology firm, has launched a compliance agent integrated with Microsoft 365 Copilot, aimed at helping regulated enterprises apply...
Can compliance become a real-time control layer?
Compliance was built for a slower world of periodic reviews, manual checks and retrospective oversight. But finance no longer operates at that pace. Transactions...
