Operators, payment providers and compliance teams kept returning to the same practical questions:****
How do we stop AI-powered fraud before money leaves the platform? How do we support crypto payments without increasing compliance risk? How do we reduce manual reviews without increasing false negatives? How do we continue growing without continuously expanding compliance teams? Those questions weren't coming from regulators. They were coming from businesses trying to scale.
AI has made fraud cheaper
One of the biggest changes over the past year is the cost of launching fraud. Creating fake identities, forged documents or convincing phishing campaigns now requires far fewer resources than before.
According to Sumsub's 2025 Identity Fraud Report:
suspicious transaction volumes in iGaming increased 4.5× between Q1 2025 and Q1 2026;
fraud rates across the industry grew by 18% year over year;
Europe now records the highest share of detected deepfake-related fraud attempts globally, accounting for 41% of reported cases.
Fraud is becoming more automated. Compliance has to keep pace. Manual review doesn't scale forever Most compliance teams already understand the problem.
Every new customer creates additional work:
identity verification;
sanctions screening;
wallet screening;
transaction monitoring;
enhanced due diligence;
ongoing customer monitoring.
Hiring more analysts can solve the problem temporarily. It doesn't solve it permanently. Several operators we spoke with were less interested in replacing people and more interested in reducing repetitive work so analysts could focus on high-risk cases. Crypto payments are becoming a standard feature across many gaming platforms. That creates additional compliance requirements. Operators now need visibility into wallet activity, blockchain exposure and sanctions risks alongside traditional customer verification. The discussion is no longer whether crypto should be supported.
It's how to support it safely. False positives remain an expensive problem. Compliance isn't only about detecting suspicious activity. It's also about avoiding unnecessary investigations.
Every false positive means:
additional analyst time;
slower onboarding;
delayed withdrawals;
poorer customer experience. Reducing false positives while maintaining strong detection quality remains one of the biggest operational challenges for compliance teams. What operators are investing in. Across the event, one pattern became clear. Companies are looking for ways to automate repetitive compliance workflows instead of adding more disconnected tools.
The areas receiving the most attention included:
automated identity verification;
passive liveness detection;
AML and sanctions screening;
crypto wallet screening;
transaction monitoring;
continuous customer risk monitoring.
Rather than treating these as separate products, many teams are building connected compliance workflows that reduce manual effort and improve investigation speed.
What this means for the industry?
Fraud has become faster. Customer expectations have become higher. Regulatory pressure continues to increase.
Those three trends are happening simultaneously. For operators, the challenge is no longer choosing between growth and compliance. The challenge is building compliance processes that allow growth to continue.
How Finchecker approaches this challenge?
Finchecker combines the key components of modern compliance into a single workflow:
Identity Verification (IDV)
Passive Liveness Detection
AML & Sanctions Screening
Crypto Wallet Screening
Transaction Monitoring
Ongoing Risk Monitoring
Instead of managing multiple disconnected compliance tools, operators can automate verification and monitoring through one platform while giving analysts better visibility into customer risk. Looking ahead
The conversations at iGB Live confirmed something many compliance teams already know. Fraud is evolving quickly. The companies that respond fastest won't necessarily be the ones with the largest compliance departments.
They'll be the ones that give those departments better tools.
If you're reviewing your onboarding, AML or fraud prevention processes this year, it's a good time to evaluate where automation can reduce operational effort without reducing control.
iGB Live 2026
RegTech for iGaming