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FCA speech – Beyond the headlines: the unseen fight against financial crime

On 17 June 2026, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a speech delivered by Therese Chambers, joint executive director of enforcement and market oversight, regarding fin...

Shifting Financial Crime Compliance from “Match Fitness” to Strategic Advantage (Hytham Ahmad)

For many financial institutions, AML and fraud programs begin as reactive exercises — tactical respo...

Sponsor's message: [NextGen FinCrime Survey Report] Turning the Tide on UK Financial Crime: Dirty Money to Clean Systems

[NextGen FinCrime Survey Report] Turning the Tide on UK Financial Crime: Dirty Money to Clean Systems

What Triggers a Federal Financial Crime Investigation?

If you’re being investigated for a financial crime, the federal government has already been investigating for quite some time. Crimes like wire fraud, money laundering, securities...

Action plan to tackle financial crime, money laundering

The Government will launch an action plan to strengthen the State's response to financial crime, money laundering, and terrorist financing.

The business of crime has just got broader

Firms must reassess risk with new Crime and Policing Act, says Sally Clark​

Why Financial Crime Operations Are Breaking Under Real-Time Payments (Rajeew Vishvakarma)

Real-time payment systems are transforming banking, commerce, and consumer expectations by facilitat...

Machine Logic, Human Oversight: How AI Is Transforming AML and the Future of Financial Crime…

Artificial intelligence has moved from experimental tool to essential infrastructure in the financial sector, reshaping how institutions…Continue reading on Medium »

The Future of KYC Is Layered—and Data-Driven

Know Your Customer rules were designed to stop financial crime, but in practice, they are increasingly being bypassed by both human error and machine-generated deception. Last year...

NextGen FinCrime 2026: Criminals operate as networks, defenders must too

NextGen FinCrime, a new conference by Finextra Research, focused on building resilience in a hyperconnected world and how while collaboration has become the default answer to tackl...

Application fraud: the fraud hiding in plain sight (Dave Rossi)

In 2025, more than 444,000 fraud cases were recorded on the National Fraud Database, the highest an...

Brazilian Gang Terrorist Designations: What U.S. Financial Institutions Need to Know About the CV and PCC

On May 28, 2026, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that the U.S. Department of State designated Comando Vermelho (CV) and Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC), Brazil’s two lar...

At least £325bn of ‘dirty money’ flows through UK each year, says report

Call for crackdown as finance linked to corruption, tax evasion and money laundering is estimated at 10% of GDPAt least £325bn worth of dirty money is flowing through the UK every...

AML Crackdown Continues with Closing of UK Payment Processor

Government regulators around the world continue to intensify efforts against money laundering. In a first-of-its-kind case, Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority has shut down paym...

APP fraud back on the rise as crooks stole £1.3bn in 2025 - UK Finance

Criminals stole £1.28 billion through fraud in the UK last year, up four per cent on 2024, with authorised push payment (APP) fraud rising sharply following a drop off the previous...

Bengaluru sees 1 economic offence every 2.5 hours

Bengaluru faces a surge in economic crimes. Over three years, one offense occurred every 2.5 hours. Forgery, cheating, and fraud dominate these cases. This indicates a shift from p...

UAE Central Bank Fines Foreign Bank and Compliance Officer for Money Laundering Violations

The NZ firm that helped high-risk clients move millions

A NZ company moved piles of money for multiple clients that were later convicted of financial crimes.

The Chase Costs More Than the Catch (Oleksandr Tseitelman)

The global anti-money-laundering system spends over $200 billion a year to recover an estimated 0.1%...

Identifying Gambling Transactions in Digital Banking

It usually starts small. A customer moves money into a digital wallet - nothing unusual on its own. ...

Fraud at financial institutions on the rise, police and FBI say

Area credit unions, Toledo police, the FBI, and the IRS are working to combat financial fraud and to prevent the public from falling victim to scams.

CACEIS agrees to voluntary £31.7m payment as firm censured by FCA

Asset servicing bank CACEIS UK has been censured by the Financial Conduct Authority and will make a £31.7m voluntary payment to WealthTek clients for failing to act on information...

How to Detect Gambling Transactions in Digital Banking

It usually starts small. A customer moves money into a digital wallet - nothing unusual on its own. ...

Why Trade Finance Fraud Needs Transaction Intelligence, Not More Documents (Maxim Olkhovskiy)

Trade finance fraud is often discussed as a documentation problem. A forged invoice. A fake bill of...