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[David Senra @davidsenra]

Revolut founder Nik Storonsky says one of his investors tried forcing him to fire his best person:

“He was forcing me to fire my best person, because he was too hardcore.”

“Of course I didn’t fire him. I said no.”

“Pretty early on I realized that quite a few VCs, they are not very operational, and they can be actually dangerous for the company if they have enough power. So every single investment round, we just remove VCs.”

“Now I don't have any VCs on the board. I think that's the best. You always need to have operators rather than VCs on the board, people who actually build business and who know how to do things.”

[Flagright @FlagrightHQ]

💬 “We want Goodeve to make investing easier to understand and straightforward to use. That starts with doing the work behind the scenes properly,” said Ieva Narbute, CEO of Goodeve.

Goodeve, the upcoming regulated investment platform, has selected Flagright to support AML compliance and fraud prevention ahead of its launch.

For a new investment platform entering a regulated market, compliance can’t be added after launch. The controls need to be in place before the first client arrives.

#FinancialCrimeCompliance #AML #Investments
🔗 Read the full announcement: https://t.co/gWF31aYusS

[Isaiah Taylor - making nuclear reactors @isaiah_p_taylor]

https://t.co/N8C1BypD6s

[Flagright @FlagrightHQ]

🏈 The people fighting financial crime rarely get to step away from the alert queue.

On Sunday 18 October, we’re bringing together AML, fraud and financial crime leaders for an exclusive NFL matchday in Flagright’s private box at Wembley.

Jacksonville Jaguars vs Houston Texans. No panels, no product demos. Just good people, sharp conversations and a proper view of the game.

We can’t promise who wins. We can promise the only false positives will be the referee’s calls.

🕐 Sunday 18 October, 1:00 PM kickoff
📍 Private box, Wembley Stadium, London

Seats are limited. Request your invite 👉 https://t.co/dHfC1tWwse

[The Fintech Times @thefintechtimes]

Legacy compliance systems crack under real-time payments. Flagright CTO on why patching won't work and where AI fills the gaps. #regtech #banking #realtimepayments

Full story: https://t.co/QjabRq7evG

[Flagright @FlagrightHQ]

💬 "When you're moving money across fiat and digital assets under a regulator's watch, speed and control have to work together," said Jason Tay, CEO, HashKey Technology Services. "Flagright gives us real-time transaction monitoring, dynamic risk scoring, AI forensics that speed up investigations, and a centralized case management environment that lets our team move fast on alerts while staying audit-ready for MAS."

@HashKeyOTC has selected Flagright to power financial crime monitoring and investigations across its Singapore business, operating under a Major Payment Institution license from MAS.

For teams working across fiat and digital asset flows, compliance needs real-time visibility without trading off audit rigor.

🔗 Read the full announcement: https://t.co/oaeYEhE5tC

[PYMNTS @pymnts]

Banks are using AI agents to catch compliance drift sooner.

To that end Chris Phillips, director of financial crime industry engagement at @FlagrightHQ, recently told PYMNTS:

“The technology is mature. Out of the box, if done right, if applied correctly, it is a game changer.”

Get the recap of our full conversation here: https://t.co/UQWzxs5t6S

[FINTECH GLOBAL @Fintech_Global]

Zento, a business account provider built to simplify finances for entrepreneurs, has appointed @FlagrightHQ , an AI-driven financial crime compliance platform, to bolster its defences against financial crime.

Read here: https://t.co/UDNIFTcZLA

[Flagright @FlagrightHQ]

💬 "Codex is committed to delivering seamless stablecoin FX, and with that comes the responsibility to proactively identify and eliminate illicit activity," said Haonan Li, CEO and Co-Founder at Codex. "Flagright's platform provides the advanced analytics and screening we need to monitor every transaction in real time and meet evolving regulatory standards."

@CodexFX, the stablecoin FX platform, has deployed Flagright to strengthen real-time transaction monitoring and AML compliance across its cross-border payments business.

For payment infrastructure built around speed, managing risk cannot become a bottleneck. The right controls need to operate at the same pace as the transactions they protect.

🔗 Read the full announcement: https://t.co/RsaJEbef2q

#FinancialCrimeCompliance #Stablecoins #Payments

[Flagright @FlagrightHQ]

The goal isn't simply to detect more. It's to make risk management smarter, more actionable, and easier to embed into day-to-day operations.

Zento, the digital business account platform for entrepreneurs, has deployed Flagright to strengthen real-time transaction monitoring and watchlist screening across its multi-currency payment flows.

💬"Modern business accounts need modern controls," said Rashid Ahmad, CEO & Co-founder at Zento. "Flagright gives us real-time visibility across payment activity, stronger watchlist screening, and unified workflows for investigations and reporting."

🔗Read the full announcement: https://t.co/iZpWGghDEs

#FinancialCrimeCompliance #Payments

[Baran Ozkan @compilingfreak]

When I went there on my 3rd day in Germany, not only did they not speak any English, they also didn’t allow the Turkish-German lady to speak in Turkish because apparently “they will complain to my manager and get me in trouble if I don’t speak German with you” (w/ sorry eyes)

[kinocow @kinocow]

Job Description at the Ausländerbehörde:

- Hate foreigners (100%)
- Speak no language than legalese German
- Voice less than 10 decibels
- Basic computer skills

Perks:
- A lazy atmosphere
- 7 hour coffee breaks
- Flexible work times
- No stress, no deadlines

[Flagright @FlagrightHQ]

🚨 Financial crime doesn't wait and neither should your defenses.

Join us at the Agentic AI in Financial Crime Conference in New York on Sept 10 as compliance, risk, and technology leaders from Google, Meta, X, Capital One, Morgan Stanley, and more tackle the real questions: governance, model risk, explainability, and what it actually takes to move AI from pitch to production in the fight against financial crime.

👉 Swing by Flagright’s booth while you're there. Come say hi and see how we're the AI operating system for financial crime compliance.

#AgenticAI #FinancialCrime #AMLCompliance #FinTech

[Flagright @FlagrightHQ]

🚨 We're at the Agentic AI in Financial Crime Conference Chicago!

This year's conversation around separating what's possible from what's practical couldn't be more timely. Criminals are already using AI to scale fraud, automate attacks, and outpace legacy detection methods and financial institutions are under pressure to deploy AI defenses that are effective, explainable, and audit-ready.

👉 Our Director of Financial Crime Industry Engagement, Christopher Phillips, is speaking on the opening panel, "AI in Financial Crime: From Rules to Intelligence," alongside leaders from Block, Northern Trust, and Footprint.

We're proud to be a Platinum Sponsor, and we're excited to be in the room with banks, fintechs, regulators, and compliance leaders shaping how agentic AI gets deployed responsibly in the industry's next phase.

Building or scaling your AML/fraud stack? Come find the Flagright team on-site. We'd love to talk.

📍 BMO Tower, Chicago | September 8

#AgenticAI #FinancialCrime #AMLCompliance #FraudPrevention

[Flagright @FlagrightHQ]

🚨 We're at Fraud & Financial Crime Malaysia 2026!

This year's theme,"Delivering Measurable Outcomes in an Era of Industrialised Financial Crime," couldn't be more timely. Malaysia lost RM2.77B to scams in 2025. Fraud has industrialised, payments move in seconds, and legacy compliance tools can't keep up.

👉 If you're scaling AML/fraud compliance and need infrastructure built for real-time detection, come find the Flagright team on-site. APAC’s financial crime landscape is moving fast, and we’re excited to be in the room with regulators, banks, and fintechs driving that change.

Building or scaling your fraud/AML stack? Swing by booth #9!

#FFC26 #FraudPrevention #amlcompliance

[Flagright @FlagrightHQ]

🇩🇪 See you at the 6th Annual FinCrime Leaders Summit DACH, Frankfurt.

Chris Phillips from Flagright will be taking the stage:

🎤 4:10pm — Operationalising AI in Financial Crime Compliance: From Alert Reduction to Defensible Decisions

🧠 12:15pm — Moderating a roundtable: Beyond False Positives: What Does Effective Transaction Monitoring Look Like in Practice?

If you're rethinking your framework, connect with Amy, Lola, Jack, and Chris to learn how Flagright sets the modern standard for fincrime compliance.

See you there!

#FinancialCrimeCompliance #AMLCompliance #TransactionMonitoring

[Baran Ozkan @compilingfreak]

@compliantvc "work from your house" sounds like a violation of some commercial regulation

[PYMNTS @pymnts]

A bank runs one agent for sanctions, another for KYC, another for transaction monitoring, often from different vendors under different controls. Their decisions still intersect.

Chris Phillips, director of financial crime industry engagement at @FlagrightHQ, told PYMNTS that fragmentation is the real risk. Watch the conversation to hear what governance has to look like instead. https://t.co/UGDq0Zp9QS

[Flagright @FlagrightHQ]

📣 Flagright is now a Nacha Preferred Partner for Compliance, Fraud Monitoring, and Risk and Fraud Prevention.

We’re advancing risk-based ACH monitoring, investigations and governance in one configurable, audit-ready system.

🔗 Read the announcement: https://t.co/EJ80hhbHG6

#ACH #FraudPrevention #FinancialCrimeCompliance

[Flagright @FlagrightHQ]

💳 @payhawk has deployed Flagright to extend real-time transaction monitoring and watchlist screening across its global spend platform.

“Fraud and AML risk increasingly intersect across cards, accounts, suppliers, and payments,” said Thibaud Catry, Group Chief Compliance Officer at Payhawk. “In most finance stacks those controls sit in separate systems. With Flagright, we now monitor every payment type against the same logic, across every market we operate in, as Payhawk continues to scale.”

🔗 Read the full announcement: https://t.co/9tb2NzXtuB

#FinancialCrimeCompliance #SpendManagement

[Baran Ozkan @compilingfreak]

One could argue VCs habitually harm the company so the founders have to unfuck it, which in turn makes the founders better, and is a net positive for the company in the long run. And if the founders cannot unfuck it, then Serengeti it is

[David Senra @davidsenra]

“ A super high bar for a VC is: do no harm.”

@travisk says only 10% of VCs are able to do no harm, and only 1% are actually helpful:

“ An operator who's running a company, if they're good, is a grandmaster of chess.”

 ”And the VC is a chess enthusiast. They check in on the chess match once every three months and they're trying to make a mark on the world. They have an opinion.”

“And you're like, don't go to Jordan and tell him how to dunk, and definitely don't go to him and tell him how to dribble. But it's hard because everybody has an opinion.”

“The way to think about it is—you're on the Serengeti. If an antelope limps in the Serengeti, the lion will take it down, even if it's not hungry. Can't even fucking help it. It's just what he does. That's kind of the nature of most VCs.”