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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In our State of Financial Crime 2026 survey of 600 senior compliance decision-makers, 93% are currently using, piloting, or evaluating a vendor AI solution for customer screening. The number is almost as high for transaction monitoring at 87%. What’s clear…
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Reach, regulation, and robustness: The 3 Rs of delivering an enterprise-grade AML solution worldwide
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At an estimated $5.6 trillion laundered annually, the money laundering economy is larger than Germany’s. If it were a country, it would be the world’s third-largest, behind only the United States and China. Yet the compliance functions responsible for fighting…
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