Reports

This guide covers the essentials of building and scaling a crypto AML program, how to navigate regulatory change, and the emerging use cases – and threats – compliance teams should look out for.

This report takes a look at the evolution of the current international sanctions environment, and the key issues in sanctions today: the key regimes, underlying geopolitical risks, sanctions evasion, and the development of national policy in some of the key regimes, national perspectives, and thematic trends.

For many early-stage, fast-growing fintechs, implementing anti-money laundering compliance tools and processes can be a challenge. This guide is designed to provide startups with practical tips to enable them to build a compliance function that can scale with their businesses.

This annual report, based on a global survey of 800 compliance professionals across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific explores some of the biggest financial crime challenges firms are facing.

Following a review of its AML/CFT framework, the European Union is preparing to introduce a suite of new regulations that will have significant implications for firms operating in, or doing business with, EU countries.

Banks offering digital-first services are redefining how consumers worldwide access and interact with their money. This guide explores how digital banks can successfully build and scale an AML program.

This report will explore the state of financial crime in 2021 so far across three key areas:

Geopolitics and sanctions
Regional regulatory trends
The regulation of cryptocurrencies and innovation in decentralized finance (DeFi)

Brexit and AML/CFT: What Does the Future Hold for the UK & EU? The UK and EU opted for a “minimalist” approach on the management of AML/CFT, with only broad agreement on following shared norms and cooperation. No formally defined […]

A comprehensive guide to the US Anti-Money Laundering Act (AMLA), the most significant AML legislation passed by Congress in decades.

This guide is intended to provide Fintechs in EMEA with a checklist of key issues that they will need to consider when developing their financial crime framework and some practical ways in which they can go about addressing them.

Recent arrests, fines, and regulatory censors suggest there is still a lot that the crypto and compliance communities can learn from one another. Regardless of the root cause or source of these external events, compliance professionals should transform mistakes into […]

In our annual industry report here at ComplyAdvantage, we explore how technology and geopolitics are set to shape financial crime compliance.