Exploring the global shift toward individual accountability in AML enforcement and what it means for compliance officers who cannot demonstrate how their country risk decisions were reached.
Cross-border remittances: how far does your geographic risk assessment need to go?
Geographic risk assessment for cross-border payments is a regulatory requirement across the US, EU, and UK. The standard is consistent: where other countries or institutions form a known and material part of the payment chain, those jurisdictions belong in the assessment.
AI and country risk research: where it helps, where it falls short, and what regulators expect
AI tools are capable of producing authoritative-looking outputs that are factually wrong. In country AML risk assessment, the institution that relied on the wrong output carries the liability. That risk is specific, documented, and growing, and it sits at the centre of how regulators are now thinking about AI governance in compliance workflows.
What FATF's global review of public-private partnerships means for jurisdiction risk
FATF recently mapped 84 public-private partnerships worldwide. Only 41% of jurisdictions say they have a clear legal basis for what banks and regulators can actually share.
The US ends domestic beneficial ownership reporting: what changed and what it means for country risk
On 11 August 2026, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a final rule that made permanent the March 2025 interim exemptions from Corporate Transparency Act beneficial ownership information (BOI) reporting.
