Compliance Best Practices

Delve into expert strategies and global guidelines for enhancing compliance programs, risk management, and organizational integrity within the financial sector.

Who Owns the Risk?

Organizations often take a one-size-fits-all approach to compliance training, despite each line of defense playing a different role in managing risk. Explore how training should be tailored to the responsibilities of the first line, second line, third line, and senior leadership.

May 2026 Sanctions and Export Controls Update

Explore this month’s Sanctions and Export Controls Update, highlighting IFI’s take on key developments from May 2026.

Understanding the FATF: A Guide for Private Sector Stakeholders Part 3

This article examines what FATF listings mean in practice and draws out the lessons learned from jurisdictions that have successfully exited the Grey List, using the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as a case study.

April 2026 Monthly Sanctions and Export Controls Report

Explore this month’s Sanctions and Export Controls Update, highlighting IFI’s take on key developments from April 2026.

Understanding the FATF: A Guide for Private Sector Stakeholders Part 2

The FATF’s mutual evaluation process has been the single greatest catalyst for improvements to the global AML/CFT regime in recent years. It’s critical for financial crime compliance and risk management professionals to understand this process and related standards and listings.

From Alerts to Accountability

This article explores the gap between activity and outcomes, where screening programs tend to fall short, and what regulators actually expect.

Data as a Critical Business and Compliance Asset

Data is an increasingly critical asset. It plays a key role in due diligence, identifying and responding against illicit finance, and identifying fraud, as well as for commercial decisions and business success. Explore global data protection and retention requirements in this article.

Understanding the FATF: A Guide for Private Sector Stakeholders

The FATF standards, known as the 40 Recommendations, have become more expansive, detailed, and stringent over time, requiring more of both public and private sector institutions.

March 2026 Monthly Sanctions and Export Controls Report

Explore this month’s Sanctions and Export Controls Update, highlighting IFI’s take on key developments from March 2026.

From The Night Agent to the Real World

In the Netflix show The Night Agent, a suspicious financial trail quickly escalates into a national security investigation. While dramatized, the premise is real. This article explores how transaction monitoring detects these signals and why financial institutions play a critical role in identifying and escalating suspicious activity.