Insights

This month’s Regulatory Roundup reflects a clear shift from ambiguity to accountability across financial services, fintech, and emerging technologies.

Becki LaPort (Principal, Strategy & Innovation at FinScan and a recognized expert in AML and financial crime compliance) lays out the evolving risk landscape that compliance teams must confront in the year ahead.

Becki highlights the growing impact of tariff-driven financial risk—explaining how evolving tariff environments and tariff-evasion tactics pose emerging credit, fraud, and sanctions-adjacent challenges for financial institutions.

FinScan was recognized for its ability to enable real-time customer and transaction screening across global sanctions lists, politically exposed person (PEP) databases, adverse media sources, and internal risk lists through a unified, data-driven screening framework.

FinScan®, an Innovative Systems solution and a leading anti-money laundering (AML) compliance solution, has once again been named to the prestigious RegTech100 for 2026.

Financial institutions are navigating a landscape where risks move faster, regulatory expectations increase even more, and the stakes for getting compliance wrong have never been greater.

With money movement now measured in milliseconds rather than hours, financial institutions, fintechs, and payment processors can no longer rely on legacy screening tools.

FinScan’s Product Management Leader, Chris Ostrowski, breaks down one of the most urgent challenges in financial crime compliance today.

This month’s roundup highlights the developments that will define early 2026, and the readiness steps that can’t wait.

Compliance expert Becki LaPorte examines the seismic shifts impacting the industry—from renewed global trade tensions and tariffs to the surge in real-time payments, the resurgence of blockchain activity, and AI-driven compliance tools.

FinScan®, an Innovative Systems solution and a leading anti-money laundering (AML) compliance system, has been recognized as a Category Lead.er in Chartis’ KYC Data & Solutions 2025: Quadrant Update

Deborah Overdeput’s appointment as Chief Operating Officer underscores Innovative Systems’ commitment to a forward-looking strategy.