Fraud rules tighten globally as regulators demand real-time monitoring
Fraud monitoring has shifted from a discretionary control to a core prudential requirement across every major regulatory regime, with supervisors now demanding structured detection...
Reg S-P deadline puts vendor oversight in the spotlight
Hungarian writer Frigyes Karinthy's 1929 theory that any two people are connected by a short chain of acquaintances was tested by Stanley Milgram in...
SEC scrutiny pushes advisers toward the OCCO model
Registered investment advisers face growing pressure to prove their compliance programmes are not just written down but actively working, and many are turning to...
HelmGuard raises $7.3m to put AI agents on compliance risk
HelmGuard, the agentic GRC firm has closed a $7.3m seed round aimed at replacing document-heavy compliance work with AI agents that pull risk signals...
Shadow AI is outpacing enterprise compliance controls
Enterprise AI adoption is racing ahead of the governance frameworks meant to contain it, and the gap between what AI systems can do and...
Why risk, not a checklist, decides who gets EDD
Enhanced due diligence (EDD) becomes necessary the moment a customer or transaction carries more risk than standard checks can capture.
According to Opoint, rather than...
AI in AML: who is accountable when machines decide?
As financial institutions accelerate their adoption of AI within anti-money laundering (AML) compliance, a familiar question keeps resurfacing: does the demand for explainability limit...
GRC framework or three silos? The distinction regulators now demand
Governance, risk, and compliance sound like a single discipline, but inside most organisations they still operate as three separate functions reporting up three separate...
Why TIN validation matters for insurers
Tax Identification Numbers (TINs) underpin tax documentation and reporting for insurers, particularly where firms are collecting taxpayer information during onboarding, supporting cross-border policies or...
Digital channels are rewriting financial crime exposure
Financial institutions built their financial crime defences around a simple channel map: branches, telephone banking, card networks and traditional payment rails. That map is...
