Kharon’s 2025 whitepaper calls for modernising AML/CTF programs, advocating intelligence-led, risk-focused approaches to detect real threats like sanctions and export-control violations

The paper argues that AML/CFT programs urgently need modernization: instead of wasting resources on rigid, low-value compliance tasks, financial institutions should adopt an intelligence‑led, risk‑based framework that centers on open‑source intelligence to detect real national‑security threats such as sanctions or export‑control evasion…