AML tech: Are regulators stuck in the past?

Lucy Palfreeman

reporter

AML requirements are getting tighter and more costly for banks. But uptake of cost-cutting technology is slow – and for once it is regulators rather than banks that are hindering the process. Banks want direction and regulators do not appear to be providing it.

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