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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.

Find out the main steps in the Know Your Business (KYB) process for UK firms past entry-level Companies House checks and go through the key compliance requirements for onboarding, screening, monitoring and reporting under MLR 2017.

Find out about the UK sanctions screening process and the nuances that go along with it. Learn the key requirements and steps required to comply and reduce false positives.

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.

Find out what mistakes cause platforms to switch KYC providers and what really makes a good identity verification solution today, in a world where users expect fast onboarding and firms need to ensure compliance while keeping a low drop-off rate.

Find out the main areas of KYB, or Business Verification, that are responsible for causing headaches, and explore the key steps in corporate entity onboarding that analysts need to review daily, learning how to make the process smoother with automation, including the direct impact that automated KYB solutions can make on match rates.

Plug iDenfy’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) server into your AI assistant and give it direct access to up-to-date documentation. This means developers can generate accurate KYC, KYB, and AML code without relying on outdated snippets or manual lookups.

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.

Find out how Sumsub compares to iDenfy and other identity verification providers across KYC accuracy, KYB depth, AML screening, pricing transparency, and support — and what to actually look for when switching.

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.