Tag: Financial Action Task Force

AML professionals spend their careers following financial signals — alerts, suspicious activity reports (SARs), transaction patterns. But how often do those professionals pause to...

Healthcare payments are rapidly emerging as a new battleground in the fight against financial crime. Traditionally viewed as systems vulnerable to billing fraud or...

Near Field Communication, better known as NFC, is most commonly linked to contactless payments. Yet as financial crime grows more sophisticated, this technology is...

Economic uncertainty is once again reshaping the financial crime risk UK firms must manage. As macroeconomic pressures intensify, compliance teams face a difficult balancing...

Africa’s FinTech sector has built a reputation for innovation under pressure. In markets defined by mobile-first adoption and a strong push for financial inclusion,...

Malaysia has been moved into the highest follow-up category under the FATF review process after its latest mutual evaluation found significant improvements in the...

Suspicious Matter Reporting (SMR) has become a central component of global efforts to combat money laundering and terrorist financing. As criminals continue to exploit...

Gatekeeper professions, including lawyers, accountants, real estate agents and trust and company service providers, occupy a pivotal position in the fight against illicit finance....

In financial compliance, missing genuine risks can bring serious consequences—but the overzealous approach of blanket de-risking is creating a different kind of crisis. Rather than...

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has rolled out major updates following its October 2025 Plenary, reshaping how financial institutions and regulated entities approach...