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The Financial Crime Playbook Targeting College Students
College students check nearly every box that makes them an attractive target for financial crime schemes.


Regulatory Roundup for August 2026: UBS's Record Fine, the CTA Rollback, and Crypto's Compliance Reckoning
Regulators on both sides of the Atlantic delivered a heavy month for AML enforcement, headlined by a coordinated $153 million penalty against UBS Financial Services from FinCEN, FINRA, and the CFTC over recidivist transaction-monitoring failures, this represents the largest AML fine ever imposed on a broker-dealer.


PaymentsJournal Podcast: Programmatic Payments and the New Compliance Challenge
FinScan's Kieran Holland, Global Head of Solutions Engineering, and Chris Ostrowski, Head of Product Management, joined James Wester, Co-Head of Payments at Javelin Strategy & Research, to discuss where programmatic payments stand today and what they demand of compliance, monitoring, and oversight.


Why banks and other financial institutions get fined, and why the gap stays open for years
Starling, Monzo, Block, Wise, TD and UBS were fined for the same pattern. What opens a control gap, why it stays open for years, and how to check your own.


A data-first approach to sanctions and watchlist screening
Poor customer data drives false positives and missed parties in sanctions screening, and AI doesn't fix it. Where data quality work starts.


AML, Sanctions, and AI in Insurance: Dynamic Risk Assessments and Sanctions in a Fragmented World
How insurers across lines of business and around the world are modernizing financial-crime compliance across risk assessment, sanctions screening, and artificial intelligence.
This is part 2 of a 3-part series.


Where AML and Fraud Converge: Protecting Vulnerable Customers in a Real-Time World
Key takeaways from our recent webinar: From Data to Decisions: Protecting the Vulnerable in a Real-Time World.


How Sanctions and Payment Screening Change When You Enter a New Market
Entering a new country or securing a new payments or banking license can change a firm's sanctions and payment screening obligations, and the change usually arrives before the first local customer is onboarded.


PaymentsJournal Podcast: Agentic Commerce and Trust
In Agentic Commerce, Trust Has to Come First The era when banks and businesses could earn trust gradually, across repeated interactions, has largely closed. Today's digital ecosystem is impersonal, fraud is more sophisticated, and confidence is harder to build and easier to lose. As agentic commerce takes hold, the challenge compounds: it is no longer enough to verify the people in a transaction. The AI agents acting on their behalf, and the intentions behind them, must be ve


From Data to Decisions: Protecting the Vulnerable in a Real-Time World
Join experts from LSEG, Bourn.ai, and FinScan as they examine what protecting vulnerable customers requires in a real-time world.


FinScan recognized in The Payments Power 50 2026 for high-speed, high-accuracy, multi-rail payment screening
FinScan was recognized for its work in real-time, multi-rail transaction screening solution, FinScan Payments.


The Travel Rule in a Stablecoin World: Why Data and Trust Now Define AML and Sanctions Compliance
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.
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