Resources

The Investigative Edge

A weekly briefing for financial crime, compliance, and investigation professionals that want sharper context without the noise.

What's inside

Five sections.
One sharp read.

Each issue follows the same battle-tested structure — so you always know where to look for what matters.

Lead

The Lead Story

A close read of one investigation, scheme, or enforcement action that matters right now.

Signals

Risk Radar

Emerging fraud typologies, threat actors, and red-flag patterns you should be watching.

Compliance

Regulatory Pulse

What regulators just did — and what it means for your compliance program next quarter.

Tradecraft

Practical techniques, prompts, and workflows from working investigators and analysts.

Research

The Reading Room

Curated reports, court filings, and research worth your time — with the key takeaways pulled out.

Updates

Edge Notes

Quick hits, tool launches, and signal-not-noise updates from across the risk ecosystem.

Weekly briefing

Sharper reads for the work behind the alert.

Each edition brings together the practical themes shaping fraud, compliance, and investigative work this week — with the context to help teams respond with confidence.

Briefing

What Fourteen Issues Taught Us: The State of Agentic AI in Financial Crime — and Where the Industry Is Heading

Fourteen issues of research across five investigative workflows, three governance chapters, and the DOJ's new self-disclosure framework have confirmed the series' central argument: the bottleneck in financial crime compliance isn't detection — it's the investigation workflow. Issue No. 15 takes stock of what held up, what surprised us, and what the industry's shift from experimentation to governed deployment means for the 26 issues ahead.

Published September 2026Read the issue

Briefing

When AML Meets Internal Investigations: The Compliance Workflow That Now Determines Criminal Liability

DOJ's new Corporate Enforcement Policy and SDNY's voluntary self-disclosure program offer a declination — no fines, no monitor — if your institution finds misconduct and reports it before the government does. The compliance investigation workflow is now a criminal liability question, and Issue No. 14 maps the eight-step corporate investigation workflow that makes self-disclosure possible.

Published August 2026Read the issue

Briefing

Where Does Your Data Actually Go? The AI Vendor Assessment Questions Every Compliance Team Should Be Asking

Before you sign an AI contract, your vendor needs to answer 12 specific questions about data handling, security, and governance. Issue No. 13 provides the assessment toolkit — plus FinCEN's new $5 billion human smuggling analysis and the five contract clauses that convert vendor commitments into enforceable obligations.

Published August 2026Read the issue