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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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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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Knowledge & training

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 […]

3 minute read

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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AI Knowledge & training

100% of firms expect positive outcomes from agentic/predictive AI, but adoption rates lag

Excited conversations and ambitious statements about the transformative potential of AI are nothing new in compliance. This year, however, things are different. AI adoption has become the baseline for most compliance teams. In our latest global survey of 600 compliance […]

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Fraud Payments Knowledge & training

APP fraud reimbursement: One year on

As we mark the one-year anniversary of the UK’s mandatory reimbursement requirement for victims of authorised push payment (APP) fraud, we must acknowledge the sheer scale of the challenge. APP fraud has reached epidemic proportions globally, causing immense financial damage […]

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PEPs Knowledge & training

What does “good” PEP data look like?

This article was originally published by UK Finance in July 2024. In my discussions with compliance leaders across leading financial institutions (FIs) this year, a recurring theme has been managing politically exposed persons (PEPs) and their associated data. With […]

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Transaction monitoring Knowledge & training

Transforming KYT: The use of AI and machine learning in transaction monitoring

This article was originally published in The Payments Association EU’s June 2024 whitepaper, “KYT Best Practices and More,” written in collaboration with Deloitte and Banking Circle. Download the full whitepaper here. Efficient and accurate data analysis is crucial for effective […]

6 minute read

Regulators & key institutions Knowledge & training

APP fraud reimbursement: What should your firm do next?

On 7th June, the UK Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) announced new reimbursement requirements for authorised push payment (APP) fraud victims. In this blog and my video below, I break down what the announcement means and – as someone who has […]

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