Insights

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

The Travel Rule is forcing one of the most fundamental shifts in how institutions think about anti-money laundering (AML), data, and trust in a blockchain-based ecosystem.

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.

FinScan Payments unifies screening across traditional and digital payments in one enterprise-scale solution.

As stablecoins rapidly become a mainstream payment rail, clarity around AML and sanction screening regulations are gaining more clarity.

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.

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

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

The regulatory landscape over the last month or so is a study in contrasts: tougher enforcement and sharper scrutiny from agencies like FinCEN, FINRA, and the UK’s OFSI alongside rule delays and new access pathways designed to foster innovation from the Federal Reserve and FDIC.

Looking ahead to 2026, industry leaders have various perspectives. Here are insights from Becki LaPorte, Principal, AML Strategy and Innovation at FinScan.