Transaction screening vs monitoring: key AML differences
Fraud rarely arrives as a single, obvious red flag anymore. Instead, it flows through routine payments, carefully disguised as normal customer activity, and the...
FCA launches Mills Review on AI in retail finance
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has launched a new review to examine how advanced artificial intelligence could change retail financial services for consumers, firms...
Why dynamic financial crime risk assessments matter now
Not long ago, many firms treated financial crime risk assessments as a box-ticking exercise—documents produced annually to satisfy regulators, then filed away until the...
Why the UK faces an escalating financial crime threat
Financial crime has become one of the UK’s most pressing economic and social risks. Despite its reputation as a highly regulated financial services hub,...
Flagright and Vilja connect core banking to real-time AML
Flagright and Vilja Solutions have announced a strategic partnership aimed at bringing modern core infrastructure and next-generation compliance capabilities closer together.
The companies said the...
Ozow and RelyComply speed up safer merchant onboarding
Ozow and RelyComply have formed a partnership aimed at making merchant onboarding faster and more secure across South Africa’s digital payments ecosystem.
The partnership has...
What compliance leaders should prioritise in 2026
2025 has been a hinge year for global compliance, with regulators raising expectations across multiple fronts and forced firms to rethink what “good” looks...
The major trends shaping the future of Know Your Customer compliance
It has been a transformative year for know your customer (KYC) processes, as companies embrace new technology to transform compliance workflows. Remonda Kirketerp-Møller, CEO...
Upwind raises $250m series B to scale runtime-first cloud security
Upwind, a runtime-first cloud security provider, has secured $250m in series B funding as it accelerates global expansion and product development.
The funding round was...
Malaysia moves closer to digital ID for financial services
Malaysia is stepping up efforts to modernise digital identity across financial services, as 18 banks take part in the second testing phase of the...
