Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs)
A Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) is a report made by a regulated institution in a variety of...
It’s Not Me, It’s €.U
This month, the European Union revealed its plan to set up a new agency, the Anti-Money Laundering...
The World [Is Not Enough]
Every day, millions of articles are published to the Internet across multiple platforms, languages...
The Financial Action [Tech] Force
Last week, following its latest plenary, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the global AML...
Global News Coverage
What if you need the latest about business developments in Mongolia or better continuous monitoring...
Unparalleled Global Coverage and Configurability
In addition to unrivaled coverage and configurability, Sigma News is now further aligned to recent...
Getting The Priorities Straight
This week, the U.S. Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) released the inaugural...
Trade-Based Money Laundering
One might imagine the surprise a Customs Official has when viewing an invoice for toilet paper...
What Is an AML Analyst?
An alert in a bank’s transaction monitoring system notifies that there is a large amount of money...
ESG: Enabling Solid Governance
Last week, Reuters reported that investor groups have asked for more ESG disclosures from the US...
State of the Unit
This month, a new report titled the ‘True Cost of Financial Crime Compliance Global Report’...
Putting You On Notice
Corruption and money laundering go hand-in-hand.
A Digital Cold War: Dual Use & The New Frontier
Last month, the announcement of Germany’s arrest of a businessman suspected of purchasing...
A Digital Goldmine!
This week, the European Central Bank, in its push for supervisory technology, stated that “national...
Level 1 vs Level 2 Investigations
“Two heads are better than one”, as the old saying goes. However, in anti-money laundering and risk...
The Culture War
This week, the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS) released a report...
The Man Behind the Curtain
This week, the WSJ rightly highlighted that the biggest impediment to the U.S. Treasury’s plans to...
A More Powerful User Experience
We are delighted to announce the release of our upgraded Sigma Open Search capabilities. This...
Getting On Board
Over the last decade, gender diversity on corporate boards has become one of the most talked about...
Adopting a Perpetual KYC Approach
During a recent industry workshop, several leading institutions, including Goldman Sachs, HSBC and...
Survey Says
Last month, David Lewis, the executive secretary of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), called...
