HitPay, a rapidly expanding payment service provider (PSP) headquartered in Singapore, is revolutionizing how over 20,000 merchants conduct business across Southeast Asia. Specializing in local payment methods and facilitating cross-border transactions across 12 Asia-Pacific markets, HitPay’s ambitious growth trajectory necessitated…
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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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The era of manual compliance in Nigeria is officially over. To reinforce the country’s economy and meet the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) global standards, in March 2026, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) updated its Baseline Standards for Automated…
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Our team recently had the pleasure of hosting discussions with experts from New York. Participants in our discussions included senior financial crime leaders, with the goal being to pressure-test the findings of our State of Financial Crime 2026 report. While…
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The Asia-Pacific (APAC) regulatory landscape in 2026 is moving at two distinct speeds. In established hubs like Singapore and Hong Kong, the focus is on mastering artificial intelligence (AI)-driven compliance and pioneering digital asset frameworks. Simultaneously, major economies such as…
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As we move through 2026, the landscape of financial crime has fundamentally shifted. The gap between criminal sophistication and firms’ legacy defenses has reached a breaking point. We’re no longer facing isolated threats, but an interconnected, industrialized criminal economy. These…
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