For a digital-first business, growth, reach, and geography are all part of the same project. New markets are where the next cohort of users, sellers, and transactions comes from, and the teams that open them fastest tend to take the…
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Based in Cape Town, South Africa, FinTech Mama Money is on a mission to make remittances affordable and accessible for foreign nationals across Africa. Founded in 2013 on the belief that sending money home should not come at the cost…
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The sixth and final Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Plenary meeting under the Mexican Presidency of Elisa de Anda Madrazo took place in Paris from June 17-19, 2026. Delegates from across the FATF’s Global Network of more than 200 jurisdictions…
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Compliance has moved through three phases. Work was once done almost entirely by people, then supported by rules-based automation, and is now beginning to run alongside agentic AI: software that can plan, retrieve information, and act across a sequence of…
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Three regulatory forces are reshaping European payments simultaneously, and many compliance teams are having to respond to all of them at once. The first is faster rails: the EU Instant Payments Regulation (IPR) is making near real-time execution the default…
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Europe is entering one of the most consequential periods of anti-money laundering (AML) reform in recent memory. The Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA) assumed its rule-setting mandate in 2026, and from July 10, 2027, the Single Rulebook, the AML Regulation (AMLR),…
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