September 12, 2026
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Compliance debt

Compliance Debt And The Most Expensive Words in Fintech

I have spent much of my career in financial crime, compliance and investigations at fast-growing businesses. This has taught me a thing or two about what I’d like to call compliance debt and a “we’ll fix it later” attitude to compliance issues.  Years of investigations have taught me: people rarely wake up one morning and […]

AML Intelligence Lifecycle

The 5 Step AML Intelligence Cycle

Anti-money laundering (AML) professionals are often heard to lament filing piles of Suspicious Activity Reports (SAR) that go into a proverbial black hole, never to be seen or heard from again. I may have lent my voice to that chorus over the years as well. A SAR is the result of an AML investigation where […]

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What Are the Career Prospects for an Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Investigator?

An anti-money laundering (AML) investigator is a person who decides if financial activity is suspicious or not. Typically, AML investigators work in a top-level department at financial institutions like banks, fintech companies, money remitters, and casinos. These individuals must review customer records, open-source information, and transaction activity to make a well-supported analytical decision.  When activity […]