The Laundry

70% of us have already let AI loose on our day-to-day tasks — summarising documents, knocking out images, the usual. Turning it loose on a financial crime investigation is a different question entirely. Our expert host...

In August 2026, FinCEN made it official: US companies no longer have to disclose who actually owns them. Five years after the Corporate Transparency Act was signed into law as America's "toughest anti-corruption tool in...

You've seen the stories: a big company makes staff redundant, replaces them with a shiny AI feature, then quietly hires them back once it all goes wrong. Why does this keep happening? Swapping human expertise for AI is...

" AML is a board-level topic ." – but is this true in practice? Is this more a provocative challenge than a current statement of fact? Under the EU's incoming AMLR, that may be set to change, but are most boards really...

MLROs are vital to financial services - a crucial link between companies, the risks they face, and the authorities. The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority have previously sent a warning to hundreds of companies who...

The Wirecard scandal has become the stuff of legend. A German payments company, worth tens of billions of euros, collapsed following the exposure of massive accounting fraud and financial misconduct. It sent shockwaves...

No one said building a regulator from the ground up would be easy. But when the organisation chair, Bruna Szego, describes it as like ‘flying a plane while building it’ – you have to wonder how things are going on...

The illegal wildlife trade is the fourth-biggest criminal market on the planet — behind only narcotics, counterfeiting, and human trafficking. And like any criminal trade of that scale, there's a hugely sophisticated...

According to Money20/20, the EMEA region accounts for 48% of the world's outbound cross-border payment flows — just under half! Now put yourself in the position of assessing those billions of transactions, moving at...

What were you doing at seventeen? If you were getting into trouble, it might've been with your teacher or parents! How about uncovering money laundering and, in turn, being sanctioned by the Russian government for your...

What do you think is keeping anti-financial crime professionals up at night? According to Nasdaq Verafin's latest Global Financial Crime Report, there's something more pressing than deepfakes or even AMLA. It's money...

Coming to you from Insight Denmark 's recent 'Compliance & Legal in the financial sector' conference in Copenhagen! In the 1984 film Terminator , the T-800 is a threat — a machine sent from the future to destroy us. By...

What happens when you take a World Cup fixtures wall chart, the Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index, the UN sanctions list, and a little AI magic? You uncover the financial crime risks hiding inside...

Everybody in this industry knows Graham Barrow and Ray Blake — who have been unpacking the finer details of financial crime prevention on their podcast, The Dark Money Files , since 2019.  So it was an honour when...

The 1MDB scandal may be the AML industry’s ultimate whack-a-mole – popping back up again and again. A Malaysian government fund set up to boost the country’s economy became one of the biggest frauds in history. Now, the...