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Handling politically exposed persons in emerging markets remains one of the most nuanced challenges in financial crime compliance. List-based PEP screening tools have become commoditised, yet enforcement actions continue to highlight cases where screening was technically completed but the underlying risk was not meaningfully assessed. The gap is not the technology. The gap is the interpretive judgment that connects a name match to an understanding of the political, legal and

Reusable verified credentials represent one of the most consequential shifts in consumer identity infrastructure in a generation. The vision is simple: an individual proves their identity once to a trusted issuer, and that verified credential can be presented to any relying party without repeating the underlying verification process. For financial institutions, this promises meaningful reductions in onboarding friction, cost and abandonment. For regulators, it offers a path t

Ransomware has long been treated as a cyber problem with a financial crime tail. That framing is no longer tenable. With ransom payments increasingly routed through regulated financial institutions, sanctions exposures embedded in the threat-actor ecosystem, and disclosure rules tightening on both sides of the Atlantic, ransomware now sits squarely on the AML and sanctions risk register.

Real-time payment rails have become the default in major economies, and authorised push payment scam losses have followed them upward. When funds settle in seconds, the window for traditional rules-based monitoring collapses, and the receiving bank's ability to identify mule behaviour at first deposit becomes the most important control in the chain. The control stack must move at the speed of settlement.

The UK's mandatory APP-scam reimbursement regime has been in force since October 2024, and the scheme data is finally giving us a clean picture of what works at the point of payment and what does not. The headline finding is straightforward — Confirmation of Payee, in its first-generation form, was a useful but porous control, and the 50/50 reimbursement liability split between sending and receiving PSPs has placed real economic pressure on both sides to do better. Confirmati

Agentic commerce — autonomous AI agents researching, negotiating and transacting on behalf of consumers and businesses — has crossed from novelty to measurable share of e-commerce volume in 2026. Visa Intelligent Commerce, Mastercard Agent Pay and the OpenAI Operator and Anthropic Claude integrations now collectively process meaningful daily transaction volumes. The merchant-side and issuer-side fraud frameworks for these flows are still catching up. The harder problem, incre

The battle against fraud has become a high-stakes race between technology innovators and malicious actors. The rise of advanced digital...