The EU is clamping down on corruption. Its anti-corruption directive came into force and significantly raises the bar, with measures to close enforcement gaps and improve cross-border cooperation.
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From mainframes to Agentic AI, what legacy system discipline can teach us about building trustworthy customer data platforms
For the past decade, I’ve led customer data and regulatory platforms at one of the world’s largest card issuers, following years modernizing mainframe systems at IBM. The mainframes I maintained early in my career were not sophisticated by modern standards. They earned the trust of the organizations that depended on them anyway, because every transaction […]
Posted inAML
End of BOI rule doesn’t mean end of BOI responsibilities for banks, small businesses
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) ended the requirement that small businesses report beneficial ownership information (BOI) but neither businesses nor banks should consider themselves off the hook about BOI, experts said. FinCEN announced Aug. 11 it was killing the BOI rule, a mandate that certain small businesses report information about any persons holding […]
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China’s “Mythos moment” is coming. Its release gate is already built.
China’s “Mythos moment” is coming. Its release gate is already built. Washington spent June 2026 governing Mythos-level models for the first time: Systems whose autonomous cyber and agentic capabilities register as national security consequences. The label borrows from Anthropic’s Mythos 5, restricted that month; the government’s attention also reached OpenAI’s GPT-5.6. No Chinese lab has […]
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When compliance reporting creates false assurance
Boards are not short of compliance information. Most receive dashboards, heat maps, training figures, investigation data, audit findings, remediation updates, and regulatory summaries. The difficulty is deciding what all that information really says. A report can be accurate, well presented, and still leave directors with too much confidence. That happens when evidence of activity is […]
Posted inCulture
Corporate culture programs: What are the key points of failure?
The benefits of corporate culture programs have been recognized for some time: they contribute to better corporate governance, more effective risk management, and create a better environment for compliance.
Posted inArtificial Intelligence
Chris Dimitriadis, chief global strategy officer at ISACA, on why compliance protects global FS from AI Armageddon
AI-enabled cyberattacks could take down multiple financial service firms simultaneously in a series of “correlated failures”, posing a systemic risk to the global financial system.
Posted inRegulatory Enforcement
Enforcement activity over Hart-Scott-Rodino Act violations heating up
The biggest takeaway from the fiscal year 2025 Hart-Scott-Rodino Annual Enforcement report was not the number of merger transactions reported, which has remained steady, but the value of the transactions themselves.
Posted inBanking
JPMorgan quietly debanked Polymarket over regulatory fears, report said
JPMorgan reportedly debanked the prediction market Polymarket last year over regulatory concerns. This incident underscores the compliance risks banks face when servicing prediction markets.
Posted inAML
LexisNexis Risk Solutions exec on how compliance in all sectors supports the virtuous circle of crime prevention
Katarina Pranjic recently added “investigations” to her job title of regulatory policy director, economic crime, at LexisNexis Risk Solutions. Despite her credentials, she found her new immersion in investigations “exciting and terrifying,” revealing how compliance and investigations can gain from collaborating.
