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Fraud13 MIN
Synthetic Identity and Device-Network Fraud: Two Different Problems People Treat as One
The industry teaches the detection technology. Nobody teaches the judgement once the alert is already in your queue. Four patterns, three decision scenarios, and a comparative matrix on stolen versus synthetic identity, with a knowledge check.
Synthetic Identity
Transaction Monitoring20 MIN
Transaction Monitoring: From Rules to AI, The Practitioner's Deep Dive
How TM systems really work, why 95% of alerts are false positives, how AI is changing the game, and what analysts actually do when the queue hits 400. Includes typology cards, alert triage simulator, and knowledge check.
TM Rules
Screening18 MIN
The Screening Alert Survival Guide: 7 Challenges Every Analyst Faces
800 alerts. 95% false positives. No DOB on file. The honest, unfiltered guide to what screening alert clearance actually involves, and what genuinely helps.
False positives
Screening25 MIN
What is Financial Crime Screening? The Complete Guide
A comprehensive, interactive introduction to sanctions screening, PEP checks, and adverse media monitoring, with quizzes, real examples, and live tool access.
Sanctions
Onboarding25 MIN
KYC / KYB / CDD / EDD: The Onboarding Dilemma
Six archetypes from lone individual to sovereign wealth fund. Six real dilemmas. Make the call yourself, then see the correct answer and the regulation behind it. The only guide that covers every customer type in one place.
KYC
Fraud15 MIN
Fraud Red Flags: Reading the Patterns, Not Just the Rules
Four live cases from Scenario Lab's Fraud Detection module, worked through properly. Account takeover, APP scams, transaction laundering, and structuring, decision scenarios with full reasoning and a knowledge check.
Account Takeover
Screening12 MIN
The False Positive Playbook: Disposing Alerts Without Getting It Wrong
The guide the vendors don't write. Three decision scenarios on disposing sanctions, PEP, and adverse media alerts correctly, name matching, DOB mismatches, transliteration, and adverse media false hits, with full reasoning and a knowledge check.
False Positives
Onboarding14 MIN
The UBO Investigation Handbook: Finding the Real Owner
Checking a register isn't investigating an ownership structure, it's the starting point. Three decision scenarios on nominee directors, unreliable PSC register data, the 2022 CJEU ruling on EU register access, and trust beneficiaries, with full reasoning and a knowledge check.
Beneficial Ownership
Onboarding13 MIN
The Source of Wealth Investigation Handbook: Telling a Plausible Story from Verified Evidence
A well-told explanation is not the same as a verified one. Three decision scenarios on verifying source of wealth and source of funds, a two-step gift case study, and a knowledge check, for compliance analysts who need to distinguish a plausible story from actual verification.
Source of Wealth
Screening12 MIN
The Adverse Media Intelligence Guide: Reading the Story Behind the Headline
Confirming identity is the easy half. Three decision scenarios on weighing legal stage, source credibility, recency, and role in adverse media hits, with a source credibility hierarchy and a knowledge check.
Adverse Media
Fraud14 MIN
The Fraud Investigation Playbook: Building a File That Survives Review
Most investigation guides teach corporate fraud. This one teaches the queue. Three decision scenarios on testing theories, the POCA disclosure boundary, and file documentation, with the full reporting chain from detection to DAML.
Fraud Investigation
Sanctions15 MIN
Sanctions Compliance: OFAC, OFSI and Beyond
Sanctions explained in plain English, a real OFAC case that generates false positives against ordinary people, flip flashcards, and a live comparison against a globally known designation.
OFAC

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This is a free, practitioner-written library covering the core disciplines of AML and financial crime compliance: sanctions and PEP screening, suspicious activity reporting, transaction monitoring, FATF standards, cryptoasset compliance, and MLRO accountability. Every guide is written from direct hands-on compliance experience across UK, APAC, and Middle East regulatory regimes, not summarised from other publishers or generated without editorial review.

Guides are organised into series rather than standalone posts, because most compliance topics don't fit into a single article without losing the depth a practitioner actually needs. The SAR Complete Guide, for example, runs across three parts covering identification, drafting, and the escalation process, mirroring how the topic is actually taught and applied in a live compliance function. The same structure applies to the PEP Screening Handbook, the UK AML Compliance Guide, and the Crypto Guide.

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