AI vs Financial Crime: The Compliance Arms Race Has Already Started

From AML and KYC to sanctions screening and fraud detection, explore how AI is reshaping Financial Crime Compliance and exposing new operational risks.

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Training a KYC Risk Scorer: The Features That Make or Break It

The model isn't usually the problem — the features are. This piece breaks down how industry, geography, and ownership data get encoded into a KYC risk scorer, and why FATF's 2025 updates and FCA guidance on AI bias make that encoding step a compliance issue, not just a technical one.

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When Every Phishing Email Is Personal: The New Shape of Fraud

Generative AI has turned phishing from a mass-produced numbers game into a personalised, industrial-scale operation. This article breaks down how AI-generated lures are feeding account takeover, synthetic identity onboarding, and multimodal BEC — and what FinCEN and FBI guidance says compliance teams should be watching for instead.

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Don't Be Sold a Story: The Compliance Officer's Guide to AI Vendor Due Diligence

Synthetic training data, back-tested results, and single-metric scorecards are standard features of the AI sales process. Here's what they're hiding — and what the EU AI Act, DOJ guidance, and NIST frameworks say your due diligence must cover.

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When AI Systems Disagree: The Governance Failure No One Planned For

Most organisations haven't asked what happens when their AI tools disagree. This post explains why that question is now a compliance risk — and what frameworks like the EU AI Act and NIST RMF say you should do about it.

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AI vs Financial Crime: The Compliance Arms Race Has Already Started

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