By Andy Mura Ask any incident responder about their worst night on call, and you will hear a story about time. The minutes lost confirming whether an alert was real. The hours spent paging the right people. The days between the first foothold and the moment someone finally said the word “breach�…

The hidden risk of Level 1 alert fatigue In banking and financial services, sanctions screening is reaching a critical inflection point. Level 1 (L1) teams face an overwhelming volume of alerts where, s. While often treated as a mere capacity constraint, chronic alert overlo…

and Brent Wible T. Markus Funk (mfunk@whitecase.com) is a Band 1 White & Case Partner, former federal prosecutor, and conflict-deployed State Department Section Chief. Brent Wible (brent.wible@whitecase.com) is a Partner at White & Case and a seasoned former federal prosecutor wi…

When Russia invaded Ukraine in early 2022, it triggered what many described as a “sanctions storm.” Regulators rapidly expanded sanctions lists, designating thousands of individuals and entities within weeks. C…

By the time a fraud investigator walks into an organization, the money is usually gone. Wire transfers move within hours. Funds are routed through two or three intermediary accounts before the victim has finished their first call with the bank. What the investigator spends most of …

Recent international reporting and policy analysis highlight the increasing relevance of digital financial systems in the context of serious and organized crime, including human trafficking. As illicit activities rely more heavily on digital infrastructures, financial syste…

There’s a lot new going on in healthcare enforcement, and, at the same, there’s a lot that hasn’t changed, reports Greg Demske (LinkedIn), partner at Goodwin Proctor and, formerly, Chief Counsel to the Inspector General at HHS. While the US Department of Justice has changed …

There’s always a “but” when it comes to AI. It has great potential, but there’s always the risk of bad things happening. In the case of the False Claims Act and healthcare, that’s very much the case. In a recent article for Compliance Today – “AI and the False Claims…