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Starling, Monzo, Block, Wise, TD and UBS were fined for the same pattern. What opens a control gap, why it stays open for years, and how to check your own.

On July 28, FinScan hosted an invitation-only FinCrime Forum on human trafficking, bringing together survivor, law enforcement, and financial services perspectives to examine a crime type that consistently falls outside the typologies financial institutions are built to detect.

Poor customer data drives false positives and missed parties in sanctions screening, and AI doesn't fix it. Where data quality work starts.

How insurers across lines of business and around the world are modernizing financial-crime compliance across risk assessment, sanctions screening, and artificial intelligence. This is part 2 of a 3-part series.

Key takeaways from our recent webinar: From Data to Decisions: Protecting the Vulnerable in a Real-Time World.

How insurers across lines of business and around the world are modernizing financial-crime compliance across risk assessment, sanctions screening, and artificial intelligence.

Entering a new country or securing a new payments or banking license can change a firm's sanctions and payment screening obligations, and the change usually arrives before the first local customer is onboarded.

Regulators worldwide continued to sharpen enforcement and raise supervisory expectations this month.

In Agentic Commerce, Trust Has to Come First The era when banks and businesses could earn trust gradually, across repeated interactions, has largely closed. Today's digital ecosystem is impersonal, fraud is more sophisticated, and confidence is harder to build and easier to lose. As agentic commerce takes hold, the challenge compounds: it is no longer enough to verify the people in a transaction. The AI agents acting on their behalf, and the intentions behind them, must be ve

This month’s developments include new FinCEN advisories on human trafficking, unauthorized employment schemes, and Iranian sanctions evasion, along with significant sanctions actions targeting Russian, Cuban, and Brazilian networks.

Under the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), disruptions to critical systems, including sanctions screening, can now trigger mandatory incident notification to regulators, often within hours.

Global regulators are raising expectations around AML, sanctions, and financial crime compliance programs, with growing emphasis on effectiveness, operational resilience, and risk-based oversight.