In early 2024, a finance worker joined what appeared to be a routine video call with the CFO and several senior colleagues. Every participant except… Read More »Generative AI and financial crime: When deception outpaces control design
Chinese money laundering networks (CMLNs) are already well understood across the industry. Their role in supporting drug trafficking, fraud, and other criminal activity is well… Read More »Why Chinese money laundering networks still evade AML detection. What banks are missing
Cross-border financial crime between the United States and Mexico sits at the center of one of the most active financial corridors in the world. More… Read More »The Mexico–U.S. corridor: From fragmented intelligence to risk mitigation
AML regulation is undergoing significant changes. Across jurisdictions, regulators are moving away from assessing whether institutions have appropriate controls in place, toward a more demanding… Read More »The conformity trap: How AML standardization is giving financial crime somewhere to hide
Wildlife trafficking is often framed as a conservation issue. In reality, it operates as a global criminal market estimated to generate between $7 billion and… Read More »Wildlife trafficking doesn’t need to hide. The disguise is ready to wear.
Organized scams have evolved into a structured, cross-border industry that extracts billions from the US economy each year. What once looked like isolated fraud cases… Read More »Scams at scale: Cybercrime, state actors, and the financial system
This is a difficult topic, but an important one. One that is rarely addressed directly in our industry. Its purpose of this piece is to… Read More »AML and the money behind child exploitation: An industry imperative
At the end of 2025, Zillow, the largest residential real estate listing platform in the United States, quietly removed its climate risk scores. The decision… Read More »When models begin to influence markets: The Zillow conundrum
This is not another recap of why “human in the loop” is crucial. It is an examination of how that concept is actually tested in… Read More »Human in the loop in 2026: What AML governance now needs to evidence
Coverage, precision, prioritization, and case aging reveal an AML program’s true operational behavior under pressure. They highlight which exposures surface, what is prioritized for review,… Read More »The future of AML effectiveness: The metrics regulators will expect in 2026
