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Financial Crime is a Decision-Speed Problem: Rethinking AI in AML and Compliance Controls
Financial crime compliance is often described as a resourcing challenge. Firms speak of analyst backlogs, alert volumes and the rising cost of surveillance and screening. Kieran Holland, Solutions Engineering Team Leader at Innovative Systems’ FinScan, argues that the underlying constraint has shifted. Financial crime has become a decision-speed problem. “The fight against financial crime is…
Sanctions Data Has Outgrown the Systems Built to Manage It
By Marion Leslie, Head of Financial Information, Executive Board Member, SIX. For as long as anyone in the industry can remember, sanctions in financial instruments representing holdings in sanctioned legal entities have been treated as a very specialist concern. They sat with compliance teams and were largely invisible to day-to-day market activity. The issue is…
Regulator-First AI: Vivox Brings Atomic Workflows to Compliance Operations
Artificial intelligence has become a default talking point in financial crime compliance. Yet for many regulated firms, particularly those operating across capital markets, payments, and treasury functions, the challenge is no longer whether AI can be used, but whether it can be deployed in a way regulators will accept. For Vivox AI, a young company…
ThetaRay Extends Agentic AI into AML Investigations with Ray
As regulatory expectations around anti-money-laundering (AML) effectiveness continue to rise, many financial institutions are finding that the greatest operational pressure now sits in investigations rather than detection. While transaction monitoring models have advanced, the downstream work of reviewing alerts, assembling evidence and documenting decisions remains labour-intensive and difficult to standardise. ThetaRay is addressing this challenge…
Electronic Communications Monitoring: Leveraging AI for More Effective Surveillance
The proliferation of electronic communications channels available to financial professionals and their clients has created a headache for compliance teams charged with mitigating against market abuse, insider trading and other illegal activities. In an era of heighted regulatory scrutiny, compliance teams are finding it challenging to put in place the appropriate systems and processes, particularly…
Seven 2026 RegTech Outlooks for Compliance, Reporting and Financial Crime
As 2026 gets underway, RegTechs are positioning for a shift in regulatory emphasis from refits, rewrites and attestations to demonstrable evidence. Across the jurisdictions supervisors are shifting from consultation and rulemaking into validation and testing whether firms have operationalised reforms through governance, high-quality data, defensible controls and credible evidence. The seven RegTechs that follow have…
ThetaRay Names Brad Levy CEO as AI Becomes Core to Financial Crime Compliance
ThetaRay has appointed Brad Levy as Chief Executive Officer, marking a leadership transition as the firm moves into its next phase of growth in AI-driven financial crime compliance. Levy joins from Symphony, where he led one of the financial sector’s most widely adopted market infrastructure platforms, and brings long-standing experience in scaling mission-critical technology across…
Innovative Systems Appoints Regional Heads to Scale its Global Partner Ecosystem
Innovative Systems is expanding how it works with partners as part of its next phase of growth, appointing two regional leaders to coordinate and develop its partner ecosystem across the Americas and EMEA. The company’s partner strategy now centres on tighter collaboration with data providers, orchestration platforms, systems integrators, core technology platforms embedded within FinScan…
Cosegic Acquires FINTRAIL
Cosegic has acquired FINTRAIL, a specialist financial crime consultancy, adding depth to its financial crime and regulatory risk capabilities. FINTRAIL advises firms on financial crime risk management, regulatory compliance, and controls design across banking, payments, fintech, and digital assets. Its entire team will join Cosegic, expanding the scale of specialist expertise available to clients across…
FMO Taps Fenergo to Modernise KYC and Onboarding Across Emerging-Market Portfolios
Dutch development bank FMO has selected Fenergo to modernise its client onboarding and know-your-customer operations, as it looks to streamline compliance across a diverse portfolio of investments in emerging markets. The bank is deploying Fenergo’s client lifecycle management (CLM) platform alongside its Document Agent capability, with the objective of accelerating onboarding timelines, improving transparency, and…