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UPI for Cross Border Payments: Navigating The Complex International AML Landscape

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Watchlist Management

RBI Regulatory Compliance and Enforcement: What Banks Should Expect Under India’s Evolving AML Framework

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Abstract digital funnel made of swirling light trails, symbolising data flow and process efficiency in AML screening.

Sanctions Screening

Preventing Funnel Loss in AML Screening

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Judge’s gavel in front of the United Kingdom flag, symbolising regulatory changes to the UK sanctions list.

Watchlist Management

Migrating to the UK Sanctions List (28 Jan 2026)

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Person using a digital interface displaying the word ‘NEWS,’ symbolising adverse media monitoring in AML compliance.

AML Compliance

Adverse Media Screening: Why It’s Essential for Modern AML Compliance

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Business professionals shaking hands in a modern office during a successful client onboarding meeting, representing real-time customer screening and UK FCA compliance expectations.

Regulatory Update

Real-Time Screening and Customer Onboarding: Meeting FCA Expectations in the UK

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Customer making a contactless payment with a bank card on a POS terminal, representing UK FCA consultation on removing contactless transaction limits.

Watchlist Management

FCA Consults on Scrapping Contactless Payment Limits in the UK

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Compliance officer reviewing digital customer identity profiles on a tablet, illustrating the challenges of name screening across multiple scripts and languages in modern AML environments.

Sanctions Screening

Name Screening in Multi-Script Environments: Challenges and Solutions for Compliance Teams

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Compliance professional reviewing digital documents with warning indicators on a laptop, representing how sanctions screening works and the role of global sanctions lists in AML compliance.

Sanctions Screening

A Guide to Sanctions Screening and Sanctions Lists

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Illustration showing multiple name variations converging into a single compliance match result, demonstrating how fuzzy matching improves accuracy in AML and sanctions screening.

Watchlist Management

Fuzzy Matching in Compliance: How It Improves Screening Accuracy

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Business professional highlighting a selected group of individuals in a digital interface, representing how PEPs, SIPs and RCAs are identified and categorised in AML compliance screening.

AML Compliance

What Are PEPs, SIPs and RCAs? Guidelines for Each of Them

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Person interacting with secure digital login and identity verification screens, illustrating how social profiling enhances digital onboarding and helps prevent identity theft.

KYC

How Social Profiling Strengthens Digital Onboarding and Prevents Identity Theft

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Business professional using an AI-powered digital interface to analyse customer identity profiles, representing how AI agents are transforming anti-money laundering compliance.

AML Compliance

How AI Agents Are Transforming Anti-Money Laundering Compliance

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Stacks of coins connected by directional arrows with chess pieces around them, illustrating the difference between source of funds and source of wealth in AML compliance.

AML Compliance

Source of Funds vs Source of Wealth: Why It Matters in AML Compliance

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Money on a roulette wheel representing financial risk and potential money laundering in gambling environments.

AML Compliance

Money Laundering in Art, Gambling and Luxury Markets: Emerging Risks and Red Flags

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Person analysing a red warning alert through a magnifying glass to identify internal and external financial crime risks in compliance systems.

AML Compliance

Internal vs External Risks: How to Identify and Manage Threats in Financial Crime Compliance

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Smarter alert management software interface showing digital risk icons on a laptop screen.

AML Compliance

Smarter Alert Management Software for Compliance Teams

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UK money laundering compliance lessons with Lady Justice statue, gavel, cash stacks, and UK flag in the background

AML Compliance

5 Compliance Lessons from the UK’s Biggest Money Laundering Cases

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Enhanced Due Diligence process visual showing a magnifying glass highlighting a verified customer profile among rejected documents, symbolising deeper AML risk assessment for banks and fintechs.

Watchlist Management

Enhanced Due Diligence in AML: Why Banks and Fintechs Can’t Afford to Miss a Step

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Illustration showing structuring and smurfing money movements, with multiple intermediaries sending small cash deposits to a bank as part of an AML money laundering scheme

Sanctions Screening

Structuring vs Smurfing in AML: Key Risks & Detection Tactics

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Sanctions screening and watchlist management for tier 1 banks, showing a compliance officer reviewing legal and regulatory documents with icons representing governance, risk, sanctions checks and financial regulations.

Sanctions Screening

Sanctions Screening and Watchlist Management for Tier 1 Banks

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A robotic hand interacting with an AI interface connected to financial compliance icons, representing how artificial intelligence is transforming financial crime compliance (FCC).

AML Compliance

How Artificial Intelligence is Changing Financial Crime Compliance (FCC)

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Smurfing in money laundering explained with visual icons showing AML processes, financial documents, compliance checks and risk monitoring on a digital tablet.

AML Compliance

What Is Smurfing in Money Laundering? Types, Impact & Prevention

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Magnifying glass focusing on details of a hundred dollar note to represent cost-effective AML compliance solutions for Indian fintechs and neobanks examining financial transactions closely.

AML Compliance

Cost-Effective AML Compliance Solutions for Indian Fintechs & Neobanks

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Briefcase filled with stacks of US dollar bills being opened, illustrating the three stages of money laundering including placement, layering and integration.

AML Compliance

The 3 Stages of Money Laundering EXPLAINED: Placement, Layering & Integration

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Analyst working across multiple monitors with code and data dashboards, illustrating how to implement a watchlist management solution that improves screening accuracy and reduces AML compliance costs.

Watchlist Management

How to Implement a Watchlist Management Solution & Reduce AML Compliance Costs

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Digital keypad graphic with glowing blue numbers symbolising how the Mobile Number Revocation List works and why accurate number verification matters for secure communication and compliance.

Watchlist Management

What Is the Mobile Number Revocation List (MNRL) and Why It Matters

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Magnifying glass hovering over digital documents on a laptop screen with global data visuals, representing how real-time sanctions screening eliminates processing lag and strengthens AML compliance.

Watchlist Management

How Real-Time Sanctions Screening Eliminates Lag & Boosts AML Compliance

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Woman holding a smartphone and payment card at home, representing how AI enhances SEPA Instant Payment compliance by enabling faster verification and smarter RegTech processes.

RegTech

SEPA Instant Payment Compliance: How AI Is Transforming RegTech

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Hand holding a smartphone showing a glowing digital payment interface, representing SEPA Instant Payments and the real-time compliance strategies needed for secure faster transactions.

Watchlist Management

SEPA Instant Payments: Real-Time Compliance Strategies for Faster Transactions

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Team reviewing charts and digital risk dashboards together, illustrating how sanctions screening self-assessments help align firm processes and screening software for effective compliance.

Sanctions Screening

Sanctions Screening Self-Assessments: Aligning Firm & Software for Success

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Sunlit exterior of a large financial institution with classical pillars, representing the five essential sanctions screening questions every financial institution must address for effective compliance.

Sanctions Screening

5 Essential Sanctions Screening Questions Every Financial Institution Must Answer

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Hands framing a glowing digital shield around a world map, symbolising how AML software protects customer data through strong security controls and essential compliance practices.

AML Compliance

How to Ensure AML Software Protects Customer Data: Key Compliance Insights

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Business professional holding a magnifying glass with KYC text, symbolising the importance of identifying beneficial ownership and staying ahead of evolving regulatory compliance requirements.

KYC

Beneficial Ownership Compliance: Staying Ahead of Regulatory Changes

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Customer making a contactless mobile payment on a POS terminal, representing India’s evolving digital payments ecosystem and the AML compliance requirements shaping its regulatory landscape.

AML Compliance

Digital Payments & AML Compliance: India's Regulatory Landscape Explained

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Glowing digital globe with interconnected data points and network lines, illustrating how automated compliance and modern data management are transforming global financial services.

AML Compliance

Automating Compliance: How Data Management Is Reshaping Financial Services

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Person holding a credit card and smartphone above a laptop with digital security icons, illustrating why accurate risk assessment in transaction monitoring has become a critical compliance priority.

Transaction Monitoring

Transaction Monitoring: Why Getting Risk Right Is the New Compliance Priority

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Business professional interacting with digital regulatory icons and a glowing gavel symbol, representing FCA sanctions screening and the role of strong management information in achieving proactive compliance.

Sanctions Screening

FCA Sanctions Screening: How to Get Ahead with Management Information

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Person using a smartphone with digital customer network maps and CRM icons, illustrating how integrating AML insights with CRM systems creates a future-ready approach to risk and customer management.

AML Compliance

Customer Network Maps: A Future-Ready Solution for AML & CRM Integration

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Judge’s gavel resting on a wooden block beside legal books and coins, representing FCA sanctions oversight and the key requirements SEPA payment providers must understand for 2024 and 2025.

AML Compliance

Why Financial Crime Compliance Is an Investment, Not a Cost

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UK FCA to continue focus on sanctions systems and controls in 2024/2025

Regulatory Update

FCA Sanctions Oversight: What SEPA Payment Providers Need to Know for 2024/25

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Illustration of professionals analysing large watchlist dashboards and data charts, highlighting the importance of strong watchlist data management in preventing financial crime.

Watchlist Management

Watchlist Data Management: A Critical Link in Fighting Financial Crime

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Board members meeting in a modern conference room reviewing documents and laptops, representing the key questions leadership teams must ask to ensure effective watchlist management.

Watchlist Management

10 Key Questions Every Board Should Ask About Watchlist Management

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Illustration of a business leader surrounded by digital data panels and upward growth arrows, representing sanctions screening challenges and the need for master data to build a unified customer view.

Sanctions Screening

Sanctions Screening Challenges: Building a Unified Customer View with Master Data

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Business professional viewing a rising digital cityscape made of data blocks, symbolising how applying strong data management practices can improve sanctions screening and enhance watchlist accuracy.

Sanctions Screening

Applying Data Management to Sanctions Screening: How to Improve Watchlist Accuracy

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Analyst seated at a multi-screen monitoring desk displaying global maps and risk dashboards, representing continuous sanctions screening and the importance of managing watchlist data for stronger compliance.

Sanctions Screening

Continuous Sanctions Screening: Managing Watchlist Data for Better Compliance

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Team collaborating with digital compliance and verification icons layered over documents and charts, symbolising the need to optimise watchlist management as complexity, speed and scale increase.

Watchlist Management

Optimizing Watchlist Management Amid Rising Complexity, Speed, and Scale

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Person typing on a laptop with glowing digital analytics and workflow icons, representing an in-depth exploration of watchlist management processes and best practices in Part 2 of the guide.

Watchlist Management

Watchlist Management Guide: A Deep Dive (Part 2)

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Stack of thick reference books glowing in blue light beside a keyboard, representing the foundational concepts and detailed insights covered in Part 1 of the watchlist management guide.

Watchlist Management

Watchlist Management Guide: A Deep Dive (Part 1)

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Stack of organised compliance documents and folders, symbolising why robust watchlist management has become essential for meeting today’s evolving regulatory challenges.

AML Compliance

Why Watchlist Management Is Central to Meeting New Compliance Challenges

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Cracked concrete surface featuring the Ukrainian and Russian flag colors divided by a jagged split, symbolizing how the Russia-Ukraine war and geopolitical tensions reshape global sanctions compliance.

Regulatory Update

Russia-Ukraine War: How Geopolitical Events Transform Sanctions Compliance

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Businessman in a suit discreetly accepting euro banknotes, illustrating how Davos 2024 discussions highlight rising global risks and the increased threat of money laundering.

AML Compliance

Davos 2024: How Global Risks Amplify Money Laundering Threats

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Hand pointing at glowing compliance icons on a digital interface, illustrating how robust compliance strategies can act as a competitive advantage or potential barrier in business.

AML Compliance

Compliance as Competitive Advantage: Helpful or Harmful?

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Abstract digital waves and data patterns visualising ISO 20022’s structured messaging format and its impact on financial crime detection, highlighting both opportunities and challenges for AML teams.

Regulatory Update

ISO 20022 & Financial Crime: Opportunities & Challenges for AML Teams

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Collage of global banknotes arranged as upward and downward arrows, symbolising how rapid shifts in the payments ecosystem demand smarter, more adaptive financial crime compliance strategies.

RegTech

How the Evolving Payments Ecosystem Requires Smarter Financial Crime Compliance

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A digital illustration of an abstract human face made of geometric blocks and particles, representing anti financial crime technology and the rising supervisory demands in 2024.

Regulatory Update

Anti-Financial Crime Technology: Meeting Supervisory Demands in 2024

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A close up of a human eye overlaid with digital networks, data points, and currency indicators, illustrating how legacy sanctions screening software increases risk for financial firms.

Sanctions Screening

Legacy Sanctions Screening Software Puts Financial Firms at Risk

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A hooded figure surrounded by red digital distortion and glitch effects, symbolising the financial crime technology gap and the urgent need to close vulnerabilities in outdated systems.

Regulatory Update

Mind the Gap: Closing the Financial Crime Technology Divide

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Facctum team celebrating as they mark the transition from on premise systems to a cloud first approach for compliance teams.

Company Update

Moving from On-Prem to Cloud-First: What Compliance Teams Need to Know

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A transparent glass-like square illuminated by soft purple lighting, symbolising clearer AI explainability and key strategies that enhance transparency and trust in compliance and RegTech systems.

RegTech

Improving AI Explainability: Key Strategies for Compliance & RegTech

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A stylised illustration of a human brain overlaid with abstract neural network nodes and connecting lines, highlighting the theme of AI decision-making and explainability in compliance systems.

RegTech

The Risks of No AI Explainability in Compliance Systems

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A close-up of a hand reaching toward a glowing transparent cube with a purple-blue sphere inside, surrounded by dark floating cubes on a deep navy background, symbolizing AI explainability and transparency in complex systems.

RegTech

AI Explainability Explained: Why Its Essential for Compliance & Trust

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A stylized illustration of a simplified human figure holding a large rectangular card with four asterisks on it, symbolizing hidden or protected information. The character is drawn in bold red and pink tones, set against a monochromatic red background, suggesting themes of security, protection, or confidentiality.

KYC

Sustainable Sanctions Screening: Achieving Long-Term Effectiveness

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Abstract illustration of a face, key, and padlock, representing digital security and identity verification. The design uses geometric shapes in shades of blue and purple to symbolize authentication, access control, and secure screening processes.

Sanctions Screening

Effective screening and long-term sustainability

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Illustration of a person holding a large magnifying glass with an eye inside it, inspecting data charts and analytics icons. The scene features bright orange and blue colors, with abstract geometric shapes floating around, representing analysis and sanctions screening concepts.

Sanctions Screening

How to Improve Sanctions Screening Effectiveness: Strategies & Insights

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A modern office lobby featuring a wooden wall with the illuminated Facctum logo at the center. The space includes black metal mesh partitions with hanging greenery, spotlights on the ceiling, a yellow sofa on the right, a black coffee table with a small plant, and two cylindrical stools on the left.

Company Update

Facctum Company Update: Our Mission & Bold Commitment to Innovation

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A digital collage blending a 100-euro banknote with a large Bitcoin symbol, set against a blue background with binary code and blockchain network graphics, representing the convergence of traditional finance and cryptocurrency.

AML Compliance

Achieving Effective Speed-to-Compliance: Strategies for Fast, Compliant Operations

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All Posts

All

RegTech

Watchlist Management

Sanctions Screening

KYC

Transaction Monitoring

Regulatory Update

Company Update

AML Compliance

Watchlist Management

UPI for Cross Border Payments: Navigating The Complex International AML Landscape

Learn more

Watchlist Management

RBI Regulatory Compliance and Enforcement: What Banks Should Expect Under India’s Evolving AML Framework

Learn more

Abstract digital funnel made of swirling light trails, symbolising data flow and process efficiency in AML screening.

Sanctions Screening

Preventing Funnel Loss in AML Screening

Learn more

Judge’s gavel in front of the United Kingdom flag, symbolising regulatory changes to the UK sanctions list.

Watchlist Management

Migrating to the UK Sanctions List (28 Jan 2026)

Learn more

Person using a digital interface displaying the word ‘NEWS,’ symbolising adverse media monitoring in AML compliance.

AML Compliance

Adverse Media Screening: Why It’s Essential for Modern AML Compliance

Learn more

Business professionals shaking hands in a modern office during a successful client onboarding meeting, representing real-time customer screening and UK FCA compliance expectations.

Regulatory Update

Real-Time Screening and Customer Onboarding: Meeting FCA Expectations in the UK

Learn more

Customer making a contactless payment with a bank card on a POS terminal, representing UK FCA consultation on removing contactless transaction limits.

Watchlist Management

FCA Consults on Scrapping Contactless Payment Limits in the UK

Learn more

Compliance officer reviewing digital customer identity profiles on a tablet, illustrating the challenges of name screening across multiple scripts and languages in modern AML environments.

Sanctions Screening

Name Screening in Multi-Script Environments: Challenges and Solutions for Compliance Teams

Learn more

Compliance professional reviewing digital documents with warning indicators on a laptop, representing how sanctions screening works and the role of global sanctions lists in AML compliance.

Sanctions Screening

A Guide to Sanctions Screening and Sanctions Lists

Learn more

Illustration showing multiple name variations converging into a single compliance match result, demonstrating how fuzzy matching improves accuracy in AML and sanctions screening.

Watchlist Management

Fuzzy Matching in Compliance: How It Improves Screening Accuracy

Learn more

Business professional highlighting a selected group of individuals in a digital interface, representing how PEPs, SIPs and RCAs are identified and categorised in AML compliance screening.

AML Compliance

What Are PEPs, SIPs and RCAs? Guidelines for Each of Them

Learn more

Person interacting with secure digital login and identity verification screens, illustrating how social profiling enhances digital onboarding and helps prevent identity theft.

KYC

How Social Profiling Strengthens Digital Onboarding and Prevents Identity Theft

Learn more

Business professional using an AI-powered digital interface to analyse customer identity profiles, representing how AI agents are transforming anti-money laundering compliance.

AML Compliance

How AI Agents Are Transforming Anti-Money Laundering Compliance

Learn more

Stacks of coins connected by directional arrows with chess pieces around them, illustrating the difference between source of funds and source of wealth in AML compliance.

AML Compliance

Source of Funds vs Source of Wealth: Why It Matters in AML Compliance

Learn more

Money on a roulette wheel representing financial risk and potential money laundering in gambling environments.

AML Compliance

Money Laundering in Art, Gambling and Luxury Markets: Emerging Risks and Red Flags

Learn more

Person analysing a red warning alert through a magnifying glass to identify internal and external financial crime risks in compliance systems.

AML Compliance

Internal vs External Risks: How to Identify and Manage Threats in Financial Crime Compliance

Learn more

Smarter alert management software interface showing digital risk icons on a laptop screen.

AML Compliance

Smarter Alert Management Software for Compliance Teams

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UK money laundering compliance lessons with Lady Justice statue, gavel, cash stacks, and UK flag in the background

AML Compliance

5 Compliance Lessons from the UK’s Biggest Money Laundering Cases

Learn more

Enhanced Due Diligence process visual showing a magnifying glass highlighting a verified customer profile among rejected documents, symbolising deeper AML risk assessment for banks and fintechs.

Watchlist Management

Enhanced Due Diligence in AML: Why Banks and Fintechs Can’t Afford to Miss a Step

Learn more

Illustration showing structuring and smurfing money movements, with multiple intermediaries sending small cash deposits to a bank as part of an AML money laundering scheme

Sanctions Screening

Structuring vs Smurfing in AML: Key Risks & Detection Tactics

Learn more

Sanctions screening and watchlist management for tier 1 banks, showing a compliance officer reviewing legal and regulatory documents with icons representing governance, risk, sanctions checks and financial regulations.

Sanctions Screening

Sanctions Screening and Watchlist Management for Tier 1 Banks

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A robotic hand interacting with an AI interface connected to financial compliance icons, representing how artificial intelligence is transforming financial crime compliance (FCC).

AML Compliance

How Artificial Intelligence is Changing Financial Crime Compliance (FCC)

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Smurfing in money laundering explained with visual icons showing AML processes, financial documents, compliance checks and risk monitoring on a digital tablet.

AML Compliance

What Is Smurfing in Money Laundering? Types, Impact & Prevention

Learn more

Magnifying glass focusing on details of a hundred dollar note to represent cost-effective AML compliance solutions for Indian fintechs and neobanks examining financial transactions closely.

AML Compliance

Cost-Effective AML Compliance Solutions for Indian Fintechs & Neobanks

Learn more

Briefcase filled with stacks of US dollar bills being opened, illustrating the three stages of money laundering including placement, layering and integration.

AML Compliance

The 3 Stages of Money Laundering EXPLAINED: Placement, Layering & Integration

Learn more

Analyst working across multiple monitors with code and data dashboards, illustrating how to implement a watchlist management solution that improves screening accuracy and reduces AML compliance costs.

Watchlist Management

How to Implement a Watchlist Management Solution & Reduce AML Compliance Costs

Learn more

Digital keypad graphic with glowing blue numbers symbolising how the Mobile Number Revocation List works and why accurate number verification matters for secure communication and compliance.

Watchlist Management

What Is the Mobile Number Revocation List (MNRL) and Why It Matters

Learn more

Magnifying glass hovering over digital documents on a laptop screen with global data visuals, representing how real-time sanctions screening eliminates processing lag and strengthens AML compliance.

Watchlist Management

How Real-Time Sanctions Screening Eliminates Lag & Boosts AML Compliance

Learn more

Woman holding a smartphone and payment card at home, representing how AI enhances SEPA Instant Payment compliance by enabling faster verification and smarter RegTech processes.

RegTech

SEPA Instant Payment Compliance: How AI Is Transforming RegTech

Learn more

Hand holding a smartphone showing a glowing digital payment interface, representing SEPA Instant Payments and the real-time compliance strategies needed for secure faster transactions.

Watchlist Management

SEPA Instant Payments: Real-Time Compliance Strategies for Faster Transactions

Learn more

Team reviewing charts and digital risk dashboards together, illustrating how sanctions screening self-assessments help align firm processes and screening software for effective compliance.

Sanctions Screening

Sanctions Screening Self-Assessments: Aligning Firm & Software for Success

Learn more

Sunlit exterior of a large financial institution with classical pillars, representing the five essential sanctions screening questions every financial institution must address for effective compliance.

Sanctions Screening

5 Essential Sanctions Screening Questions Every Financial Institution Must Answer

Learn more

Hands framing a glowing digital shield around a world map, symbolising how AML software protects customer data through strong security controls and essential compliance practices.

AML Compliance

How to Ensure AML Software Protects Customer Data: Key Compliance Insights

Learn more

Business professional holding a magnifying glass with KYC text, symbolising the importance of identifying beneficial ownership and staying ahead of evolving regulatory compliance requirements.

KYC

Beneficial Ownership Compliance: Staying Ahead of Regulatory Changes

Learn more

Customer making a contactless mobile payment on a POS terminal, representing India’s evolving digital payments ecosystem and the AML compliance requirements shaping its regulatory landscape.

AML Compliance

Digital Payments & AML Compliance: India's Regulatory Landscape Explained

Learn more

Glowing digital globe with interconnected data points and network lines, illustrating how automated compliance and modern data management are transforming global financial services.

AML Compliance

Automating Compliance: How Data Management Is Reshaping Financial Services

Learn more

Person holding a credit card and smartphone above a laptop with digital security icons, illustrating why accurate risk assessment in transaction monitoring has become a critical compliance priority.

Transaction Monitoring

Transaction Monitoring: Why Getting Risk Right Is the New Compliance Priority

Learn more

Business professional interacting with digital regulatory icons and a glowing gavel symbol, representing FCA sanctions screening and the role of strong management information in achieving proactive compliance.

Sanctions Screening

FCA Sanctions Screening: How to Get Ahead with Management Information

Learn more

Person using a smartphone with digital customer network maps and CRM icons, illustrating how integrating AML insights with CRM systems creates a future-ready approach to risk and customer management.

AML Compliance

Customer Network Maps: A Future-Ready Solution for AML & CRM Integration

Learn more

Judge’s gavel resting on a wooden block beside legal books and coins, representing FCA sanctions oversight and the key requirements SEPA payment providers must understand for 2024 and 2025.

AML Compliance

Why Financial Crime Compliance Is an Investment, Not a Cost

Learn more

UK FCA to continue focus on sanctions systems and controls in 2024/2025

Regulatory Update

FCA Sanctions Oversight: What SEPA Payment Providers Need to Know for 2024/25

Learn more

Illustration of professionals analysing large watchlist dashboards and data charts, highlighting the importance of strong watchlist data management in preventing financial crime.

Watchlist Management

Watchlist Data Management: A Critical Link in Fighting Financial Crime

Learn more

Board members meeting in a modern conference room reviewing documents and laptops, representing the key questions leadership teams must ask to ensure effective watchlist management.

Watchlist Management

10 Key Questions Every Board Should Ask About Watchlist Management

Learn more

Illustration of a business leader surrounded by digital data panels and upward growth arrows, representing sanctions screening challenges and the need for master data to build a unified customer view.

Sanctions Screening

Sanctions Screening Challenges: Building a Unified Customer View with Master Data

Learn more

Business professional viewing a rising digital cityscape made of data blocks, symbolising how applying strong data management practices can improve sanctions screening and enhance watchlist accuracy.

Sanctions Screening

Applying Data Management to Sanctions Screening: How to Improve Watchlist Accuracy

Learn more

Analyst seated at a multi-screen monitoring desk displaying global maps and risk dashboards, representing continuous sanctions screening and the importance of managing watchlist data for stronger compliance.

Sanctions Screening

Continuous Sanctions Screening: Managing Watchlist Data for Better Compliance

Learn more

Team collaborating with digital compliance and verification icons layered over documents and charts, symbolising the need to optimise watchlist management as complexity, speed and scale increase.

Watchlist Management

Optimizing Watchlist Management Amid Rising Complexity, Speed, and Scale

Learn more

Person typing on a laptop with glowing digital analytics and workflow icons, representing an in-depth exploration of watchlist management processes and best practices in Part 2 of the guide.

Watchlist Management

Watchlist Management Guide: A Deep Dive (Part 2)

Learn more

Stack of thick reference books glowing in blue light beside a keyboard, representing the foundational concepts and detailed insights covered in Part 1 of the watchlist management guide.

Watchlist Management

Watchlist Management Guide: A Deep Dive (Part 1)

Learn more

Stack of organised compliance documents and folders, symbolising why robust watchlist management has become essential for meeting today’s evolving regulatory challenges.

AML Compliance

Why Watchlist Management Is Central to Meeting New Compliance Challenges

Learn more

Cracked concrete surface featuring the Ukrainian and Russian flag colors divided by a jagged split, symbolizing how the Russia-Ukraine war and geopolitical tensions reshape global sanctions compliance.

Regulatory Update

Russia-Ukraine War: How Geopolitical Events Transform Sanctions Compliance

Learn more

Businessman in a suit discreetly accepting euro banknotes, illustrating how Davos 2024 discussions highlight rising global risks and the increased threat of money laundering.

AML Compliance

Davos 2024: How Global Risks Amplify Money Laundering Threats

Learn more

Hand pointing at glowing compliance icons on a digital interface, illustrating how robust compliance strategies can act as a competitive advantage or potential barrier in business.

AML Compliance

Compliance as Competitive Advantage: Helpful or Harmful?

Learn more

Abstract digital waves and data patterns visualising ISO 20022’s structured messaging format and its impact on financial crime detection, highlighting both opportunities and challenges for AML teams.

Regulatory Update

ISO 20022 & Financial Crime: Opportunities & Challenges for AML Teams

Learn more

Collage of global banknotes arranged as upward and downward arrows, symbolising how rapid shifts in the payments ecosystem demand smarter, more adaptive financial crime compliance strategies.

RegTech

How the Evolving Payments Ecosystem Requires Smarter Financial Crime Compliance

Learn more

A digital illustration of an abstract human face made of geometric blocks and particles, representing anti financial crime technology and the rising supervisory demands in 2024.

Regulatory Update

Anti-Financial Crime Technology: Meeting Supervisory Demands in 2024

Learn more

A close up of a human eye overlaid with digital networks, data points, and currency indicators, illustrating how legacy sanctions screening software increases risk for financial firms.

Sanctions Screening

Legacy Sanctions Screening Software Puts Financial Firms at Risk

Learn more

A hooded figure surrounded by red digital distortion and glitch effects, symbolising the financial crime technology gap and the urgent need to close vulnerabilities in outdated systems.

Regulatory Update

Mind the Gap: Closing the Financial Crime Technology Divide

Learn more

Facctum team celebrating as they mark the transition from on premise systems to a cloud first approach for compliance teams.

Company Update

Moving from On-Prem to Cloud-First: What Compliance Teams Need to Know

Learn more

A transparent glass-like square illuminated by soft purple lighting, symbolising clearer AI explainability and key strategies that enhance transparency and trust in compliance and RegTech systems.

RegTech

Improving AI Explainability: Key Strategies for Compliance & RegTech

Learn more

A stylised illustration of a human brain overlaid with abstract neural network nodes and connecting lines, highlighting the theme of AI decision-making and explainability in compliance systems.

RegTech

The Risks of No AI Explainability in Compliance Systems

Learn more

A close-up of a hand reaching toward a glowing transparent cube with a purple-blue sphere inside, surrounded by dark floating cubes on a deep navy background, symbolizing AI explainability and transparency in complex systems.

RegTech

AI Explainability Explained: Why Its Essential for Compliance & Trust

Learn more

A stylized illustration of a simplified human figure holding a large rectangular card with four asterisks on it, symbolizing hidden or protected information. The character is drawn in bold red and pink tones, set against a monochromatic red background, suggesting themes of security, protection, or confidentiality.

KYC

Sustainable Sanctions Screening: Achieving Long-Term Effectiveness

Learn more

Abstract illustration of a face, key, and padlock, representing digital security and identity verification. The design uses geometric shapes in shades of blue and purple to symbolize authentication, access control, and secure screening processes.

Sanctions Screening

Effective screening and long-term sustainability

Learn more

Illustration of a person holding a large magnifying glass with an eye inside it, inspecting data charts and analytics icons. The scene features bright orange and blue colors, with abstract geometric shapes floating around, representing analysis and sanctions screening concepts.

Sanctions Screening

How to Improve Sanctions Screening Effectiveness: Strategies & Insights

Learn more

A modern office lobby featuring a wooden wall with the illuminated Facctum logo at the center. The space includes black metal mesh partitions with hanging greenery, spotlights on the ceiling, a yellow sofa on the right, a black coffee table with a small plant, and two cylindrical stools on the left.

Company Update

Facctum Company Update: Our Mission & Bold Commitment to Innovation

Learn more

A digital collage blending a 100-euro banknote with a large Bitcoin symbol, set against a blue background with binary code and blockchain network graphics, representing the convergence of traditional finance and cryptocurrency.

AML Compliance

Achieving Effective Speed-to-Compliance: Strategies for Fast, Compliant Operations

Learn more

All Posts

All

RegTech

Watchlist Management

Sanctions Screening

KYC

Transaction Monitoring

Regulatory Update

Company Update

AML Compliance

Watchlist Management

UPI for Cross Border Payments: Navigating The Complex International AML Landscape

Learn more

Watchlist Management

RBI Regulatory Compliance and Enforcement: What Banks Should Expect Under India’s Evolving AML Framework

Learn more

Abstract digital funnel made of swirling light trails, symbolising data flow and process efficiency in AML screening.

Sanctions Screening

Preventing Funnel Loss in AML Screening

Learn more

Judge’s gavel in front of the United Kingdom flag, symbolising regulatory changes to the UK sanctions list.

Watchlist Management

Migrating to the UK Sanctions List (28 Jan 2026)

Learn more

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