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Crypto firms struggle to meet anti-money-laundering standards, says UK watchdog, while EU’s Joint Public Prosecution Service aims to come down hard on financial crime in member states and the UAE launches ultimate beneficiary declaration campaign to combat financial crime.

Recently our COO Greg Watson hosted a webinar with an expert panel of industry heavyweights to delve deep into the issues surrounding digitalisation and KYC & AML automation.

In this blog we highlight the challenges faced in the sector when implementing a financial maturity model and introduced the Napier AML Maturity Model, or NAMM.

South Africa's ex-president Zuma takes stand for financial crime accusations, UK financial authorities consider digital currency and cannabis raid turns into Bitcoin mining bust

In this blog we will gain insights from the anti-money-laundering foot soldiers and introduce the blueprint for initiating leading AML practice.

Napier continues to build on our global expansion with the opening of another APAC office.

At this month’s Global RegTech Summit our Chief Data Scientist, Dr Janet Bastiman, was delighted to be part of the panel discussion: New technologies to solve regulatory problems.

China moves against crypto trading to beat financial crime, it’s a slow start for the US Treasury’s new anti-money laundering whistle-blower program, and money laundering in Western Balkans cities drives up property prices.

Welcome to our new blog series on the future of fighting financial crime. In collaboration with our partner, RegTech Associates.

Perpetual KYC is the next big thing for compliance but what exactly is it? And why should compliance teams bother to adopt it?

At the recent Global RegTech Summit Napier’s Chief Operating Officer, Greg Watson, explained how the compliance sector is now embracing the latest tech developments to shift away from burdensome periodic KYC checks to perpetual KYC.

Changes in the EU and cashless casinos for Sydney in this week's headlines.

Here we introduce Client Activity Review, explain how its features combine to combat financial crime, and demonstrate why it is the global leader in the financial industry’s journey towards holistic AML

Two of Napier’s founding members, Nick Portalski and Luca Primerano, recently spoke EM360 about problems in identifying money laundering. Listen to the podcast here.

We are proud to announce that NXTsoft institutions has partnered with us to give financial institutions accelerated access to our cutting-edge AML and compliance technology

We are excited to announce that we are providing our advanced Transaction Screening system to the cloud based clearing bank, ClearBank.

UK releases update on economic crime strategy, AUSTRAC spells out requirements for high quality SMRs and brokers at heart of $100million Colombian money-laundering operation.

Recently, the poor rate of recovery of the criminal proceeds from the trillions of dollars that are laundered globally each year has been in the headlines once more.

In this blog, we explore customer-centricity and explain why understanding customer behaviour is essential to AML.

UK announces first set of anti-corruption sanctions, Canada’s new corporate ownership registry praised, and further crypto developments in Ireland and the Caribbean.

In this blow we focus on what the obstacles are to implementing holistic AML, and how they impede AML practice.

FCA’s ‘regulatory nursery’ to offer immediate post-authorisation support and guidance for new firms

Discover how holistic AML is essential in the fight against financial crime.

The City of London calls for banks to make better use of RegTech, the EU announces a five-year plan to tackle money laundering and financial crime, and FinCEN shuffles its leadership ahead of a new financial transparency law.

All too often, FIs continue with ineffective traditional methods based on a lack of technology, process and approach that could enable them to instead to rely on a trigger-based approach to client reviews.