How financial crime enables child exploitation networks
AML professionals spend their careers following financial signals — alerts, suspicious activity reports (SARs), transaction patterns. But how often do those professionals pause to...
Palantir wins FCA deal to mine UK financial crime data
US tech firm Palantir has secured a contract with the UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to analyse sensitive financial data as part of a...
Rising contactless limits fuel hidden fraud threat
Anti-fraud specialist SmartSearch has issued a warning following the introduction of new rules that allow banks and payment providers with strong fraud controls to...
How financial crime collaboration infrastructure works in practice
A decade ago, the notion of regulated institutions sharing financial crime intelligence in real time felt far-fetched.
According to Salv, legal risks seemed impossible...
Allure Security raises $17m Series B to fight AI fraud
Allure Security, an AI-native disinformation defence company, has raised $17m in a Series B funding round, bringing its total funding to $43m.
The round was...
The true cost of money laundering on global economies
Financial crime is placing an enormous strain on economies worldwide, but the burden is far from evenly distributed. The latest Napier AI/AML Index, which...
The hidden $8m onboarding risk in payment fraud
The financial services industry is entering a decisive shift in how fraud risk is understood and absorbed. For years, institutions operated on the assumption...
Fraud rises 6% as identity crime dominates UK cases
Fraud across the UK reached unprecedented levels in 2025, with more than 444,000 cases recorded to the NFD, according to the latest Fraudscape report...
Why English-only AML monitoring misses critical risks
Financial crime rarely announces itself in English. Yet many anti-money laundering (AML) monitoring programmes are still structured as though it does. This mismatch between...
Finastra partners FraudAverse for AI fraud prevention
Finastra has partnered with FraudAverse to strengthen fraud prevention capabilities for banks using Finastra’s Financial Messaging platform.
The collaboration aims to equip financial institutions with...
