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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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