Andrius Juodis

Moving fifty vehicles to a dealer network abroad on deferred payment terms is a fundamentally different risk proposition than a single retail sale – and informal, relationship-based vetting doesn’t scale to match it.

Running an online tobacco or vape business today means navigating a long list of regulatory obligations, with the PACT Act sitting at the center of most of them. From ATF registration and real age verification to adult signature delivery requirements and state tax compliance, the rules touch nearly every part of the operation.

For logistics platforms, driver onboarding is where growth plans stall and competitors gain ground. The gap between a two-week verification process and a two-minute one isn’t just an efficiency problem – it’s a market share problem.

In international trade, trust often moves faster than certainty – and that gap is where costly mistakes happen. Shipping on credit to an unverified business partner can mean chasing unpaid invoices across jurisdictions with little practical recourse.

Luxury retailers are now a primary sanctions enforcement target – and the regulatory record makes that unmistakably clear. This piece breaks down why the sector is uniquely exposed, what OFAC and EU rules actually require, and what a defensible compliance program looks like before regulators come knocking.

Choosing KYC onboarding software is a risk management decision – and getting it wrong shows up later in manual workarounds, abandoned onboarding flows, and compliance gaps that only surface during an audit. This blog post cuts through the vendor noise to focus on what actually matters: document verification accuracy, multi-jurisdictional compliance coverage, conversion rates, and the integration and support questions most teams don’t think to ask until it’s too late.

The retail prop trading model has long operated in a regulatory grey area, but that space is narrowing fast. From financial promotions compliance under Section 21 of FSMA to AML obligations under the Money Laundering Regulations, UK prop firms face growing scrutiny from the FCA – whether or not they’re formally authorized. This piece breaks down where the regulatory lines currently sit in 2026 and what firms should be doing now to prepare.

More than a quarter of gig platform users will experience fraud or identity theft – double the rate outside these marketplaces. The platforms that get hit mostly are usually the ones that treated identity verification as something to sort out later.

Fraud used to require technical skill. That is already gone. Fraud-as-a-Service has turned financial crime into a subscription product – complete with phishing kits and other various synthetic identity packages. This blog post breaks down how the FaaS ecosystem works and why it’s so hard to catch.

The compliance industry has spent years automating individual tasks. Agentic AI is something different – it doesn’t just handle a step, it runs entire workflows, moving between systems and making decisions until a case is complete. This blog post breaks down what that actually means for KYC and where it’s already being applied.

The idea behind perpetual KYC is straightforward – stop treating customer due diligence as a box you tick once a year and start treating it as something that runs in the background all the time. In practice making that shift is more difficult than it sounds. This blog post gets into how pKYC actually works, and why the old periodic review model is leaving institutions.

France was a few steps ahead when it introduced PSAN registration back in 2019. But the framework has evolved considerably since then, and what the AMF expects from crypto firms today looks quite different from the early days of the PACTE Law. With the MiCA transition deadline at July 1, 2026, firms that haven’t started thinking about their compliance roadmap are already behind.