Blog posts by this author
Integration patterns, data mapping, cutoffs, sandbox and UAT, reconciliation, and post-go-live failures when connecting AML and KYC tools to a bank core.
Compliance orchestration routes data, decisions, and cases across KYC, KYB, sanctions, and monitoring tools. Architecture patterns and what to evaluate.
Senate PSI report: 84% of Iran-linked sanctioned wallets ran on USDT. Why a post-designation freeze is not a sanctions program, and what regulators ask.
MP 1,394 article by article: CPF refund lists, the 7-day bank restitution window, SPA reporting, Caixa fallback, and the pending Central Bank Pix block.
Who counts as an MSB, FinCEN Form 107 registration, state licensing, the $2,000 SAR threshold, agent oversight, and what IRS BSA examiners find.
The OFAC SDN List names blocked persons, vessels, aircraft, and crypto addresses. How screening works, what a true hit requires, and what a miss costs.
How to run an enterprise BSA/AML risk assessment: FFIEC categories, inherent vs. residual risk, refresh triggers, examiner criticisms, program linkage.
Placement, layering, and integration: the techniques, transaction-data signatures, and controls at each stage, and why real schemes break the model.
Deep dive posts by this author
Rule engines flag everything and explain nothing. Interpretable agents argue both sides before a person decides.
Any payslip can be forged in minutes. Five gates separate real provenance from a file that only looks like it.
Funds hop five chains before the alert opens. Five stages on one wallet turn a hop count into a disposition.
Launderers already know your thresholds. Six behavioral lenses turn an alert into a narrative an examiner can follow.
Nine in ten screening alerts are noise. Separate matching from the decision so the alerts that matter get read.
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AI didn't just speed up fraud, it changed the rules. A handbook on deepfakes, autonomous laundering, and how compliance teams fight back without failing the exam.
