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Last year at our CATALYST London event, we observed the (completely real and mandatory) British tea alarm and worked it into some interviews with our attendees. We wanted to know two things: how they take their tea and, more importantly, where they see the financial crime landscape heading. All of our FinTea Chat episodes are available on YouTube and make perfect Friday afternoon viewing ☕️🍃 👉 https://okt.to/ecsOIL

😵💫 📊 Poor data governance is one of the biggest and most overlooked risks in #AML compliance. Data silos, outdated records, and inconsistent reporting are increasingly treated by regulators as #compliance failures. Our latest article breaks down the five practices that set firms with resilient AML data programs apart from those without. https://okt.to/brxZdu

🏆 ComplyAdvantage has won the 2026 XCelent Award for Customer Base and Support, and was named a Functionality Standout in Celent's latest Adverse Media Screening report. Both recognitions are based on direct customer feedback – validation of the support we provide alongside our AI-driven risk intelligence platform, including adverse media coverage 7x more comprehensive than traditional competitors. Thank you to our clients and team for making this possible. 👉 Read the full Celent 2026 report here: https://okt.to/TrkqeU

This week’s edition of The Briefing breaks down three major regulatory shakeups: 🇺🇸 OFAC abruptly revokes Iran General License X, replacing it with a narrower GL X1 and setting a strict July 17 wind-down deadline for Iranian petroleum transactions. 🇪🇺 AMLA opens a consultation on draft regulatory technical standards to standardize cross-border #SAR sharing. 🇭🇰 PBOC, HKMA, and SFC jointly welcome a new CFETS-HKEX collaboration to build an electronic fixed-income and currency trading platform. 👇 Catch up on all three regional updates in the full newsletter below.

⚽️ Quarter-final week is here, and so is the next question in our World Cup AML poll series. Let's dive in 👇

🇸🇬 The Future of Compliance: Asia-Pacific is heading to Singapore! On July 22, 2026, we're bringing senior compliance, risk, and technology leaders together for a closed-door, half-day summit. This year's theme: turning control into confidence, and confidence into growth. On the agenda: the forces reshaping APAC payments, why static compliance programs are struggling to keep pace, and how to build defensible AI that satisfies regulators from MAS to AUSTRAC. Spaces are limited, reach out to one of our reps for more information. 🤝 Heather Tan, CAMS, Leia Ng, Robert, Sharene Chen, Aaron Di Meglio, Marcus Lim, Nikki Than Win, Grace G.

🚨 Are your alert queues growing faster than your team's capacity? You may have a risk management problem. Your monitoring model should determine which alerts surface, how they're prioritised, and whether your programme holds up to audit. We've broken down the 10 steps to building a resilient AML risk-scoring model. 🤨 Check out our latest article for more: https://okt.to/n1quBD

What's the most consequential thing in Luxembourg's new 50-page compliance circular? According to our own Iain Armstrong, it boils down to one sentence. The CSSF's Circular 26/906 sets out how supervised firms have to run their anti-financial crime controls: governance, risk management, monitoring, the lot. But it adds something new. Once a year, every member of the management body has to personally sign a statement confirming the firm meets those requirements in full, and send it to the regulator. See what Iain has to say about what it takes to sign that statement honestly, and where impacted firms should start: https://okt.to/yvsGKF Nexus Luxembourg 📸 👇

Miss one of these and your next examiner conversation could get harder. Here are three major regulatory updates to factor into your operations this week: - FinCEN fuel-theft alert: Add the new CJNG cartel red flags to your transaction monitoring, screening against the newly sanctioned parties, and referencing the alert in your SAR filings. - FCA landmark crypto rules: The UK's cryptoasset framework is confirmed, with FCA authorization mandatory. Start mapping your AML controls against the new perimeter now. - MAS Q2 2026 enforcement actions: See where to benchmark your screening, CDD, and monitoring controls against the latest supervisory priorities. 👉 Get the full breakdown in this week's issue of The Briefing.

22 floors up, with some of Sydney's financial crime leaders in the room. Not a bad way to spend a Thursday evening. 🌃 🇦🇺 Thanks to everyone who joined us for AML Unplugged's FCC Happy Hour. It was great to catch up with familiar faces, meet new ones, and continue the conversations shaping the future of financial crime compliance. Don't miss the next one – sign up to our newsletter to hear about future events first → https://okt.to/w6SiZj