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Steve Marshall
Director of Advisory Services
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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.
Financial Crime in Plain Sight: Human Trafficking Through the Lens of Financial Institutions
On July 28, FinScan hosted an invitation-only FinCrime Forum on human trafficking, bringing together survivor, law enforcement, and financial services perspectives to examine a crime type that consistently falls outside the typologies financial institutions are built to detect.
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.
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