Insights

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

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

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.

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

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.

Compliance is becoming more data-driven, more real-time, and less forgiving of gaps in governance. We break down the most important developments and what they mean for compliance teams now.

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.

This month’s Regulatory Roundup highlights regulators focusing on clarifying crypto market structure, increasing scrutiny of AI systems, and strengthening accountability in compliance programs.

In this thought-provoking article, Innovative Systems’ COO, Deborah Overdeput, explores why adaptability and continuous reinvention are becoming essential leadership skills—particularly for women navigating the AI-driven economy.

FinScan’s Kieran Holland reframes the challenge at the heart of modern financial crime defense: it’s no longer just about volume or resourcing, but about how quickly institutions can gather, harmonize, and act on fragmented data to reach defensible decisions.

At the recent Dow Jones Risk Journal Summit in Dubai, Ibrahim Bennani Doubli of FinScan sat down to discuss a topic that's often overlooked in the rush toward artificial intelligence: data itself.