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Why Fraud-as-a-Service is putting AML under pressure
Fraud-as-a-Service (FaaS), in which criminal groups buy or rent data, tools, infrastructure and specialist capabilities, is creating a more fragmented financial crime environment for...
US scraps ownership reporting rule, but KYB duties remain
Know Your Business (KYB) verification has moved from a compliance checkbox to a frontline defence against shell companies, sanctioned entities and fraud, and 2026...
Napier AI flags sanctions screening flaws after Treasury’s Iran push
The US Department of the Treasury opened Operation Economic Outcast on 24 August, a government-wide push against Iran and the foreign firms helping it...
FinCEN’s NPRM signals a reward for collaborative AML tech
FinCEN and the federal banking agencies issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) on 7 April 2026 to reform the Bank Secrecy Act's AML/CFT...
Money laundering database plan unravels as FinCEN retreats
One of the biggest new US anti-money laundering reporting regimes has effectively just been dismantled, after FinCEN finalised sweeping changes to the Corporate Transparency...
Why more AI alerts could mean better AML, not worse
Napier AI's Michael Joseph attended a recent ACAMS New Jersey chapter discussion on the shift from threshold-based transaction monitoring (TM) to AI-driven systems, alongside...
MVB Bank targets compliance capacity with Bretton AI
MVB Bank is turning to AI-native managed services to increase its compliance capacity as its FinTech business expands, selecting Bretton AI to handle AML...
Napier AI: detection, not efficiency, is AML’s real test
Napier AI has weighed in on one of the thorniest debates in financial crime compliance: the gap between what artificial intelligence can theoretically do...
UBS pays $8m after AML surveillance flaws go unfixed
UBS Financial Services has been ordered by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to pay $8m over failures to properly oversee its anti-money laundering...
Ten steps to audit-proof your AML risk scoring model
When alert queues grow faster than compliance teams can handle, genuine financial crime risk can vanish into the noise.
According to ComplyAdvantage, the root...
