False positives waste time, clog queues, and hide real risk. Clearing them well is a skill: you must be fast,...

1. What Just Happened – Two Big Signals from the AML World Global AML auditors are in Canada right now....

What Happened? Between early 2023 and early 2025, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) conducted supervisory examinations of several Financial...

Over the past couple of years, regulators globally have ramped up enforcement. Several recurring patterns are emerging in the fines...

Why This Matters Financial crime is evolving faster than ever: Agentic AI is reshaping transaction monitoring and regulatory reporting. Regulators...

The global compliance landscape is shifting again. The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) recently enacted...

What Happened The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) is prioritizing a major reform — simplifying KYC requirements for...

In this edition, we break down two major global regulatory updates shaping compliance strategy for 2025 and beyond from FinCEN’s...

What Happened The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) published its October 2025 “Call for Action” and “Jurisdictions under Increased Monitoring”...

Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) represents a critical component of robust anti-money laundering frameworks. These scenario-based questions explore practical applications of...

1. The Enforcement Story – What Really Happened A virtual asset trading platform recently pled guilty in federal court to...

What’s New The UK Treasury has announced plans to move the anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorist finance (CTF) supervision of...

1. The Update On 27 October 2025, HM Treasury (UK) released a revised Money Laundering Advisory Notice instructing all firms...

Sanctions risk today isn’t about who your customer is …it’s about who your customer deals with. Secondary sanctions are now one of...

In late 2025, regulators revealed that a bank had uncovered multi-year suspicious activity at a single retail branch and what...

1. What’s New – The Update On 24 October 2025, FATF published its latest update to the lists of jurisdictions...

Introduction Technology, policies, and regulations form the backbone of financial crime compliance. But the real differentiator? People.Without skilled compliance professionals—analysts, investigators,...

Introduction Technology has transformed AML. We have AI-powered transaction monitoring, real-time sanctions screening, blockchain analytics, and predictive red flag detection....

Introduction Financial crime compliance is often positioned as a shield. The tighter the controls, the safer the institution. But in...

1. The Headline In October 2025, a global bulge-bracket bank’s European branch was fined a record amount by Germany’s BaFin...