Sanction Scanner Blog

Learn how to build an effective OFAC Sanctions Compliance Program (SCP) with the five essential pillars: risk assessment, internal controls, auditing, training, and management commitment. Discover common compliance failures, OFAC enforcement risks, and best practices for sanctions screening and AML compliance.

White-collar crime and financial crime are related — but they're not the same. Learn the key differences, how they overlap, and why the distinction is critical for building an effective compliance program.

Explore the mechanics of insider trading as a critical financial crime. Learn how it's detected via AI, its connection to money laundering, and key compliance red flags.

Discover the meaning and details about corruption and bribery, learn about the key anti-corruption laws, and corruption as a predicate offense for money laundering in “Corruption and Bribery: What They Mean for AML Compliance” article. Learn more about red flags for corruption in financial transactions and how Sanction Scanner helps detect corruption risk.

Discover how Sanction Scanner's FUSION AI is redefining AML compliance — enabling compliance officers to build detection rules in their own words, in any language, without developer dependency. Explore the future of AI-native risk intelligence.

 Money laundering hides the source. Terrorism financing hides the destination. Learn how ML and TF differ in detection logic, regulatory basis, and what your AML program needs to cover both.

Know what to look for. This guide breaks down the key money laundering red flags — customer, transaction, behavioral, and geographic — and the AML tools that help compliance teams detect and act on them.

An in-depth analysis of six real-world money laundering typologies from small business fraud to crypto theft and their implications for modern AML compliance programs.

Discover the reasons for money launderers' attraction to cyrpto and how it works, the statistics, the key money laundering techniques in the “Money Laundering Through Cryptocurrency: Risks, Methods, and AML Compliance” article. Learn more about the regulatory framework, red flags for crypto money laundering and how Sanction Scanner supports crypto AML compliance.