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In light of Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM)’s recent, stricter enforcement posture and the scam crisis that cost the country RM2.97 billion in 2025 alone, one reasonable conversation Malaysian compliance leaders should have is around navigating the regulatory landscape and the…
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Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) has made public the fines it imposed for anti-money laundering (AML) non-compliance. In November 2025, Malaysia’s central bank took enforcement action against several financial institutions for failures that, on paper, should have been avoided: missed suspicious…
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Singapore’s largest money-laundering case to date put a hard number on the cost of programs that react too slowly. After roughly S$3 billion in assets were seized in 2023, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) fined nine financial institutions a…
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Based in Cape Town, South Africa, FinTech Mama Money is on a mission to make remittances affordable and accessible for foreign nationals across Africa. Founded in 2013 on the belief that sending money home should not come at the cost…
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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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