Beneficial Ownership Explained: A Comprehensive Guide for Verification
When Igor Komarov, a high-ranking Russian official and ally of President Putin, was sanctioned by the UK in 2022, authorities...
John Carrington
How AML Tech Stacks Will Rewire Compliance in 2026, One Data Feed at a Time
Financial crime costs the global economy up to $2 trillion annually, and traditional compliance systems are failing to keep pace....
RiskAlert247: How This UK Startup Transforms Companies House Data Into Real-Time Fraud Detection
When Graham Barrow, founder of RiskAlert247, stood before an audience at Chartered Accountants' Hall in December, he demonstrated something alarming....
AML Technology in Europe to Reach 3.8 Million Businesses by 2030
In April 2025, investigations revealed the full extent of what HSBC had spent years overlooking. The bank's Geneva private banking...
AML in the Digital Age: Building Resilience Across Financial Systems
Twelve payments. That's all it took. Twelve low-value transfers totaling a few hundred dollars, moving from Australia to the Philippines...
Osapiens Acquires Lucent AI to Integrate Risk Management Into Sustainability Compliance
Osapiens, the Mannheim-based sustainability software provider, has acquired Berlin startup Lucent AI in a move to deepen its capabilities in...
How Droit Built a Platform Processing Millions of Rule Checks Each Day
A trader at Goldman Sachs enters a derivatives order. Before the transaction executes, software checks it against thousands of regulatory...
The Compliance Dashboard: Seeing Risk Before It Strikes
Telephone & Data Systems spent years managing SOX compliance through Excel spreadsheets. The internal audit team described their monthly reporting...
MiFID II Overview: Key Rules and the Digital Tools Driving Compliance
Between December 2018 and December 2023, Sigma Broking Limited submitted 924,584 incorrect MiFID II transaction reports to UK regulators. Nearly...
The Data-Driven Audit: Using Analytics to Spot Risk Before It Hits
A senior accountant at Tesco filed a report in September 2014 warning that employees were "pulling forward" future income from...
