Why Southeast Asia’s identity maze is a KYC problem
Cross-border KYC is becoming an infrastructure problem for financial institutions across Southeast Asia, where national identity systems remain fragmented and businesses face different verification...
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...
Singapore tables bill to close scam loopholes
Singapore's Ministry of Home Affairs has introduced the Scams (Countermeasures) and Other Matters Bill, tabling it for its first reading in parliament on Tuesday...
MVB Bank targets compliance capacity with Bretton AI
MVB Bank is turning to AI-native managed services to increase its compliance capacity as its FinTech business expands, selecting Bretton AI to handle AML...
Edge teams up with Socure to boost lender screening
EDGE, the cashflow bureau that helps lenders convert bank transaction data into explainable, machine learning-based scores and attributes for lending and rental screening, has...
Oscilar deal arms Conta Azul for Brazil’s payments push
Oscilar, the agentic risk platform for financial institutions, has partnered with Conta Azul, part of Visma and one of Brazil's leading cloud-based financial management...
Visa’s $2.4bn BioCatch deal targets $1tn scam problem
Visa has agreed to buy BioCatch, a behavioural-first fraud intelligence specialist, in a $2.4bn all-cash transaction.
The company is being sold by funds advised by...
Fraud prevention firm SEON hands Fowler top people role
SEON, the AI Command Center for fraud prevention and AML compliance, has promoted Donna Fowler to the role of chief people officer as the...
World Cup 2026 exposes compliance gaps as fraud hits record
Spain have been crowned world champions, with substitute Ferran Torres striking deep into extra time to settle a final Argentina barely troubled. The holders...
Singapore and Thailand move to close digital fraud gaps
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Bank of Thailand (BOT) aimed at bolstering cybersecurity cooperation and...
