The UK Wire Transfer Regulation: The Problem Isn’t Just the FCA, It’s the Law Itself The Wire Transfer Regulation (WTR) was designed to safeguard transparency in cross-border payments by requiring complete payer and payee information to accompany every transfer. Yet recent FCA data re...

Hundreds of warnings vanish into silence. But is the real flaw in the FCA? Or in the WTR itself? Our latest piece shows how structural gaps in the law have left the UK regime toothless.
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The Travel Rule & the Illusion of Transparency: Reimagining R.16 for a Fragmented Financial Future In the architecture of global anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorist financing (CTF) regimes, Recommendation 16 of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) occupies a deceptively modest posit...

The FATF’s 2025 overhaul of the Travel Rule marks a decisive step towards real payment transparency. But can these reforms finally turn transparency from illusion to reality?
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UK Wire Transfer Regulations: A Practical Risk Assessment Framework for PSPs | opusdatum

New from OpusDatum: A practical risk framework for UK PSPs tackling wire transfer regulations. Includes FCA insights, case studies, templates plus our tool WireCheck. Essential for AML and payment teams.
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Modernising Wire Transfer Regulations: The Future of FATF's Revised R.16 The FATF’s second consultation on Recommendation 16 closes with a call for smarter, fairer compliance standards.A Pivotal Moment for Wire Transfer RegulationsOn 18 April 2025, the Financial Action Tas...

Wire transfer regulations are changing. Are you ready?
FATF’s revised R.16 modernises global wire transfer compliance, but success will depend on smart, proactive action.
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