Tag: Financial Action Task Force

Anti-money laundering regulation is in the midst of a fundamental transformation. Across jurisdictions, regulators are shifting away from simply assessing whether institutions have the...

Know Your Business (KYB) has become a cornerstone of modern compliance frameworks, requiring companies to verify that their business clients are legitimate, properly registered,...

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....