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Iain Armstrong

Iain Armstrong is an Executive Director of FCC Strategy at ComplyAdvantage. Iain has held a number of senior compliance roles in major financial institutions, including NatWest, HSBC, and Barclays. Iain also spent eight years working at the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority.

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Adverse media Knowledge & training

Strategic name screening in the Philippines: What financial institutions need to know

This is Part 3 of a three-part series on the Philippines’ compliance landscape, written by Iain Armstrong, Executive Director of FCC Strategy at ComplyAdvantage. As mentioned in my earlier piece, the Philippines’ official exit from the Financial Action Task Force…

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Regulation Knowledge & training

The Philippines’ experience with the FATF greylist: A tax on migrant workers? Looking ahead to 2027’s evaluation

This is Part 2 of a three-part series on the Philippines’ compliance landscape, written by Iain Armstrong, Executive Director of FCC Strategy at ComplyAdvantage. Here, Iain recounts why the Philippines’ years on the FATF greylist fell hardest on the workers…

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Regulation Payments Knowledge & training

Why the Philippines is one of Asia's most exciting financial markets, and why fraudsters have taken note

This is Part 1 of a three-part series on the Philippines’ compliance landscape, written by Iain Armstrong, Executive Director of FCC Strategy at ComplyAdvantage. In this article, Iain examines why the Philippines has become one of Asia’s most dynamic financial…

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AML compliance Knowledge & training

Audit-ready compliance: How to evidence your financial crime controls

A recap of the latest session in our Compliance Edge webinar series, hosted by Iain Armstrong, Executive Director of Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) Strategy at ComplyAdvantage. This session started with a poll. Around 28% of attendees had never been through…

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Regulation Knowledge & training

CSSF 26/906: One sentence to rule them all

Fifty pages of new rules, and the single sentence that should make Luxembourg’s FinTechs sit up and take notice I recently spoke at Nexus Luxembourg, in a session on the EU Single Rulebook and, more narrowly, on what CSSF Circular…

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Regulation Knowledge & training

Europe’s regulatory roadmap 2026: Centralization, digital identity, and the AI investment surge

This article was originally published on the Payments Association website, which can be accessed here. The landscape of financial crime compliance is undergoing a fundamental shift. While the US administration pursues a deregulatory agenda to lower compliance costs, the EU…

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The 2026 compliance agenda: 5 imperatives for AML leaders

As illicit actors weaponize artificial intelligence to scale their operations, a new sense of urgency is defining the global compliance landscape. The critical question is no longer if defenses need to evolve, but how quickly they can be deployed. To…

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Financial crime Knowledge & training

Real estate and trade-based money laundering rank as top concerns for 2026

High-end money laundering via property or assets and trade-based money laundering (TBML) have been prominent financial crime risks for some time now. As they continue to grow in complexity, however, they remain among the biggest risks financial institutions have to…

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AML compliance Knowledge & training

Reflections from the frontline: 5 takeaways for senior compliance leaders

The current landscape of financial crime compliance is characterized by an innovation paradox: the simultaneous pressure to adopt cutting-edge technology while navigating a fragmenting global regulatory map. During a Chatham House roundtable discussion, I sat down with ten senior financial…

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AFASA: What Philippine compliance teams need to change

22 October 2026

Strategic name screening in the Philippines: What financial institutions need to know

20 October 2026

The Philippines’ experience with the FATF greylist: A tax on migrant workers? Looking ahead to 2027’s evaluation

7 October 2026