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Steve Marshall

Director of Advisory Services,

FinScan

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29 Nov 2023

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Pennsylvania

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Tackling Financial Crime at Speed: How to Adapt to a Faster, More Complex Payments World

Demand for digital payments continues to hit new heights, sparking a wave of payment innovation to meet demand. Meanwhile, the shift to real-time payments means more transactions are settled faster than ever. This new payments landscape can deliver enormous benefits but also opens the door to new financial crime (FinCrime) risks. Regulated instit...

02 April 2025 /payments /crime

KYC and Adverse Media Screening: Unearthing Hidden Risks

Know Your Customer (KYC) remains the cornerstone of identifying potential reputational and financial risks, but as information sources become increasingly diverse, traditional KYC verification methods might no longer be enough. Enter adverse media screening—the unsung hero of KYC that strengthens anti-money laundering (AML) defenses and helps busi...

18 March 2025 /regulation /crime Exposing Financial Crime

AML in 2024: Geopolitics, Regulation, and Data

Increasing geopolitical instability, regulatory developments, and technological advances are set to contribute to a rapidly changing anti-money laundering (AML) landscape in 2024. Here, we look at each of these key themes in more detail. Geopolitical instability Geopolitical instability, particularly the Israel-Gaza war, will have huge ramification...

10 January 2024 /regulation /crime RegTech

FinCEN’s Beneficial Ownership Information Rule is Coming…But Questions Still Remain

Since January 1, 2024, the U.S. government now requires many firms to report information about who ultimately owns and controls them as an effort to ‘make it harder for bad actors to hide or benefit from their ill-gotten gains through shell companies or other opaque ownership structures’. The new requirement is enforced through the Beneficial Owne...

04 January 2024 /regulation /crime RegTech

What haven’t we learned? The Binance money laundering debacle tells us there’s a long way to go

Those of us in the financial crimes compliance profession look at the current fiasco with Binance’s recent money laundering guilty plea (among many other accusations) and ask ourselves “How could this happen?” We believe that with contemporary policies, procedures, and technology, this could not happen. But it can—and does—when we forget that key ...

04 December 2023 /regulation /crime