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Cross-border payments: balancing AML and financial inclusion
Cross-border payment service providers are facing heightened regulatory scrutiny following new anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CFT) guidance issued jointly by Finansinspektionen and the...
The hidden cost of building in-house RegTech platforms
When organisations consider building a financial crime risk assessment platform internally, they typically do so believing it will be cheaper than licensing a specialist...
EU’s AMLA sets stage for AML compliance overhaul
Europe's regulatory landscape for anti-money laundering is entering a decisive new chapter. On 24 March 2026, the EU's newly established Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA)...
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)...
Hawk launches AML investigative agent to cut costs
Hawk, a provider of AI-powered anti-money laundering (AML), screening and fraud prevention solutions, has launched its AML Investigative Agent, designed to help financial institutions...
How AI agents are cutting costs in AML operations
AI agents have been quietly reshaping the economics of AML operations at banks, FinTechs, payment providers, and other FIs for several years now —...
Why regulators now demand enterprise-wide risk assessments
There is a fundamental shift is under way in how regulators view financial crime risk assessments.
Where once they focused primarily on customer onboarding, screening,...
Why English-only AML monitoring misses critical risks
Financial crime rarely announces itself in English. Yet many anti-money laundering (AML) monitoring programmes are still structured as though it does. This mismatch between...
AI model governance: the gap holding back financial crime
A new report from Hawk and Chartis has found that nine in ten financial institutions now actively encourage the use of artificial intelligence in...
OPBAS report exposes persistent AML compliance gaps
The latest assessment from the Office for Professional Body Anti-Money Laundering Supervision (OPBAS) has highlighted improvements in the way money laundering risks are monitored...
