Financial Crime Weekly Digest — 1–7 September 2026
Global enforcement actions, regulatory moves & intelligence from the world of AML & financial crime.
Tag: compliance
Tag: compliance
45 posts · compliance
Two mandatory lists: the Bank of Mauritius sanctions guidance, and what it asks of you
The Bank of Mauritius's guidance page Implementation of Targeted Sanctions, dated August 2026, sets out the obligations of financial institutions under the United Nations (Financial Prohibitions, Arms Embargo and Travel Ban) Sanctions Act 2019. It is specific…
From the annual review to perpetual monitoring
A compliance framework built around periodic reviews can carry an assumption worth testing: that a customer screened clean at onboarding stays clean until their next scheduled review.
Own your compliance data: the case for in-country screening
Ask a compliance team where their customers' most sensitive data lives, and the honest answer may be: "in a vendor's cloud, in another country." Names, national IDs, dates of birth, risk ratings, adverse findings — the whole due-diligence file — sitting in a…
Beyond the watchlist: why a data feed isn’t a compliance programme
It is tempting to treat compliance as something you buy: a subscription to a watchlist and PEP database, and the quiet assumption that a name-check against it is due diligence.
Start with a compliance health check.
A working session with your compliance team, then a walkthrough against your own risk appetite: the lifecycle end to end, scoring weights set to your policy, and a review of the audit trail the system produces.