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On June 30, 2026, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published its final rules and guidance for cryptoasset firms, completing its crypto roadmap and confirming the framework that will govern trading platforms, intermediaries, custodians, stablecoin issuers, and firms arranging staking in…
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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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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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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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As artificial intelligence (AI) evolves from a speculative tool to a core component of regulatory technology (RegTech), financial institutions (FIs) face a fundamental question: are human compliance teams becoming expendable? At CATALYST 2025, a panel of experts from Mollie, Monzo…
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The global public sector loses trillions of dollars annually to a “scamdemic” – a massive scaling crisis of financial crime (FinCrime) and cybercrime. To navigate this crisis, industry leaders like Lord Chris Holmes of Richmond advocate for a shift away…
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