From alerts to governance: AI’s role in financial crime prevention
Australia's financial services sector has moved past debating whether to adopt artificial intelligence and risk-based frameworks in anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorism financing (CTF)...
Governing AI without slowing down
If the first two parts of The Accountability Gap exposed the problem and questioned where decisions should sit, the next challenge is execution: how...
Four ways AI powers compliance by design in 2026
The compliance landscape is undergoing a profound transformation. According to 4CRisk.ai, 2026 marks a decisive shift away from point-in-time inspection towards continuous assessment and...
AI use cases transforming FinTech compliance tools
AI is no longer a future consideration for financial services firms — it is already reshaping how they manage compliance, supervision, and digital communications.
According...
Why synthetic identity fraud is harder to detect in 2026
Fraud is evolving. Unlike traditional identity theft — where criminals hijack a real person's credentials — synthetic identity fraud takes a more insidious approach,...
Scams at scale: How cybercrime is breaking the financial system
Organised fraud has evolved far beyond isolated incidents. Today, it functions as a structured, cross-border industry extracting tens of billions from the US economy...
EU, UK and Swiss launch joint T+1 testing plan
The UK Accelerated Settlement Taskforce (AST), the EU T+1 Industry Committee (IC), and the Swiss Securities Post Trade Council T+1 Task Force (swissSPTC) have...
How machine intelligence is redesigning financial crime detection
Financial crime detection is being quietly rebuilt from the ground up. What was once a rules-driven discipline - defined by static thresholds, retrospective reviews,...
How agentic AI is transforming compliance ROI
As financial institutions race to modernise their technology stacks, agentic AI is emerging as a powerful lever for unlocking compliance budgets. According to an...
The global identity shift: Are IDV teams ready?
The identity verification industry is undergoing profound change. Document-based verification has demonstrated serious vulnerabilities to AI-powered fraud and is steadily being phased out in...
