Insights

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

As regulators intensify scrutiny of abusive trading in small-cap and low-priced securities, firms are facing growing pressure to strengthen financial crime controls.

As geopolitical tensions continue to disrupt global trade routes, compliance teams are being forced to confront a new reality: sanctions and AML risk can shift as quickly as the geopolitical landscape itself.

FinScan experts Steve Marshall, Chris Ostrowski, and Becki LaPorte provide their insights on the three areas that demand immediate attention.

This recent Asset Servicing Times special feature highlights the growing role stablecoins may play in reshaping settlement, liquidity management, and post-trade infrastructure as the US GENIUS Act brings new regulatory clarity to digital assets.

Becki LaPorte, Principal - AML Strategy and Innovation at FinScan, explores how the ongoing crisis in the Strait of Hormuz is fundamentally reshaping sanctions exposure and AML risk across global trade and payments ecosystems.

Becki LaPorte, Principal - AML Strategy and Innovation at FinScan, examines how the escalating blockade in the Strait of Hormuz is exposing fundamental weaknesses in traditional AML frameworks.

Becki LaPorte, Principal – AML Strategy and Innovation at FinScan, shares a practitioner’s perspective on how fintech firms can scale compliance in an increasingly real-time, high-risk environment.

Becki LaPorte, Principal – AML Strategy & Innovation at FinScan, shares expert insight on how escalating disruption in the Strait of Hormuz is reshaping risk across global trade, insurance, and financial crime compliance.

Becki LaPorte, Principal – AML Strategy & Innovation at FinScan, offers her sharp insight into what this means in practice.

As COO of Innovative Systems, Deborah works at the intersection of product, growth, and global execution while also supporting the next generation of leaders through mentoring and other initiatives.

In this article, Chris Ostrowski, Head of Product Management at FinScan, examines how stablecoins are rapidly evolving into a core component of the global payments ecosystem—and why AML and sanctions compliance frameworks are struggling to keep pace.