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The EU's payments package, a third Payment Services Directive alongside a directly applicable Payment Services Regulation, reached [provisional...

Since 7 May 2026, every authorised payment institution and e-money firm in the UK has been living under the FCA's Supplementary Regime for...

The Consumer Duty is now three years old as a rulebook and has quietly become something financial crime teams cannot treat as somebody else's...

Every scam typology that ends with money moving out of a victim's account also has a beginning, the moment a mule, a shell beneficiary or a...

The most expensive mistake in financial crime vendor selection happens after the RFP closes. A shortlist of three to five vendors is selected, each...

The FATF's fifth round of mutual evaluations is often described as a methodology refresh. TrustSphere's view is that this undersells it badly: the...

A great deal of vendor commentary over the past year has told financial crime teams that their AML and fraud detection systems will become "high-risk...

Authorised Push Payment fraud has evolved beyond the consumer and SME playbook into institutional payment flows, where the economics of attack are...

Refinitiv (the LSEG successor to Thomson Reuters financial data operations) occupies an unusual position in sanctions compliance: it is neither a...

Procurement processes for sanctions and compliance technology often fail not because vendors submit poor proposals, but because institutions ask the...

Transaction monitoring is broken in operational model, not technology. Institutions managing 50,000 monthly alerts from transaction monitoring...

Digital Operational Resilience Act reveals true architecture. Ratified December 2024, coming force tier 1 firms December 2025, commonly read as...

A bustling urban market serving as a gateway for business expansion. Expanding into new markets can be one of the most exhilarating steps a business can take. Not only does it offer new opportunities, but it also poses a range of challenges. With the globalization of commerce, many businesses seek to broaden their horizons beyond their national boundaries. Whether you are a startup or an established brand, understanding the basics of market expansion is essential for reaching

In today's digital age, fraud has escalated to unprecedented levels, impacting businesses and individuals alike. As technology evolves,...

Expanding your business globally can be one of the most rewarding yet challenging endeavors you will face. As markets become more...

A quiet legislative milestone in Hong Kong this month may prove to be one of the most transformative anti-financial crime initiatives in...

Hong Kong has long been a titan in global finance, but its latest moves signal a seismic shift toward embracing the digital future. In...

The Wolfsberg Group's 2026 refresh of its core principles signals the most substantive evolution in correspondent banking guidance in several years. The update consolidates lessons from recent enforcement actions, recognises the operational reality of cross-border payment modernisation, and pushes member banks toward more risk-sensitive, data-driven due diligence. The implications extend well beyond the thirteen Wolfsberg members. Because non-member banks typically adopt Wolf

Quantexa has established itself as one of the most influential financial crime technology vendors of the past decade. Its contextual decision intelligence platform is used by some of the world's largest banks, government agencies and insurance groups, and it anchors a category that combines entity resolution, network analytics and machine learning at enterprise scale. In this Vendor Spotlight, we examine what Quantexa actually does, where it adds distinctive value, and the co

The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act has now been in force long enough to assess its real-world impact. The reforms to Companies House, the failure-to-prevent fraud offence, and the expanded identity verification requirements represented the UK's most ambitious anti-economic-crime reform package in decades. Two years on, the picture is mixed. Transparency has improved in measurable ways. Enforcement capacity has expanded. But structural weaknesses in verification