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®, 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.

2025 was quite a year for compliance professionals. Our panel will look back at 2025 and look ahead into 2026.

Moderated by Ian Mitchell, Founder and Chair of The Knoble, the conversation explored how anti-money laundering (AML) professionals can use technology, collaboration, and compassion to protect the vulnerable. 

This month’s regulatory update reveals a regulatory landscape in transition, where technology, fairness, and financial crime prevention increasingly intersect. US agencies advanced both innovation and oversight.