Insights

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, offers her sharp insight into what this means in practice.

These amendments raise expectations for how existing obligations are executed. For MLROs, that distinction matters.

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.

This FAQ outlines the essentials to help organizations begin the journey of stablecoin payments.

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.

For financial crime leaders at payments companies entering this space, the compliance build is not an incremental adjustment to existing frameworks. It requires a fundamental expansion of risk infrastructure, regulatory mapping, and operational capability. This article sets out how to approach that task.

In a recent PaymentsJournal podcast “The Fate of Agentic Commerce Hinges on an Elusive Resource: Trust” and companion article, FinScan’s Chris Ostrowski and Kieran Holland explore why adoption will depend less on technology innovation and more on the ability to verify identities, validate intent, and embed controls into every transaction.

Renowned fintech author and speaker Leda Gyptis joined panelists Seth Sattler (Oscilar), Jacqueline Hite (Worldplay), Becki LaPorte and Steve Marshall (FinScan) to explore how financial crime risks are evolving.

Banking and payments sector heavyweights look to the year ahead. POV: Chris Ostrowski, Head of Product Management, FinScan.