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Why Modern AML Systems Still Miss the Obvious

Transaction monitoring has evolved significantly over the past decade, yet financial institutions continue to report staggering false-positive rates. The problem is not the volume of data — it is the architecture processing it.

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“Transaction monitoring has evolved significantly over the past decade, yet financial institutions continue to report staggering false-positive rates.”

Marcus Steyn

Head of Financial Crime Intelligence

14 January 2026

7 min read

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Financial Crime Intelligence

6 min read

Behavioural Analytics: The Signal Hidden in Plain Sight

Every financial criminal leaves a behavioural signature before they leave a transactional one. The institutions that detect crime earliest are those that have learned to read behaviour, not just transactions.

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Priya Naidoo

28 January 2026

Financial Crime Intelligence

8 min read

Following the Money: How Graph Intelligence Unmasks Laundering Networks

Money laundering is rarely a solo act. It depends on networks — of accounts, relationships, and intermediaries. Graph intelligence makes those networks visible.

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Liam van der Berg

10 February 2026

Regulatory Insights

7 min read

Regulating AI in Financial Services: What the 2026 Landscape Means for Your Platform

Regulatory bodies across multiple jurisdictions are moving from guidance to enforcement when it comes to AI in financial services. Here is what institutions need to understand before their next exam.

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Zanele Dlamini

3 February 2026

Regulatory Insights

8 min read

Life After the Grey List: What South Africa's FATF Journey Teaches Financial Institutions

South Africa's experience on the FATF grey list, and its subsequent removal, offers a detailed case study in what it actually takes to build a credible financial crime compliance infrastructure.

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Zanele Dlamini

7 January 2026

Product & Technology

6 min read

The Philosophy Behind Maestro: Why Case Management Is Not Enough

Case management tools organise what investigators already know. Maestro is designed to structure what they need to decide — and to make those decisions defensible.

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Cole Erasmus

17 February 2026

Product & Technology

5 min read

Real-Time vs. Batch: Resolving the False Debate in Financial Crime Detection

The financial crime industry has been arguing about real-time detection for years. The truth is that the debate is mostly a distraction from the harder architectural question.

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Liam van der Berg

21 January 2026

Data & Analytics

6 min read

Garbage In, Garbage Out: Why Data Quality Is the Biggest Unsolved Problem in AML

Institutions spend millions on detection technology and comparatively little on the data infrastructure that determines whether that technology can perform. The hierarchy needs to be inverted.

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Priya Naidoo

16 December 2025

Industry Perspectives

7 min read

De-risking Is Not a Strategy: Rethinking Correspondent Banking with Intelligence

The retreat of global banks from correspondent banking relationships has left entire markets underserved. Intelligence-driven risk management offers a credible alternative to blanket de-risking.

Correspondent BankingDe-riskingGlobal Finance

Marcus Steyn

2 December 2025

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