RelyComply partners with The Payments Association (TPA) to strengthen AML

RelyComply is pleased to announce its partnership with The Payments Association (TPA), a leading community at the forefront of payments innovation and industry collaboration across the United Kingdom.

This partnership enhances RelyComply’s ability to support payment organisations operating within increasingly complex regulatory and risk environments, while also contributing specialised anti-money laundering (AML) expertise to broader industry efforts focused on preventing financial crime in the payments ecosystem.

It also represents a meaningful milestone in RelyComply’s continued international growth, reinforcing its commitment to equipping financial institutions, fintech companies, and payment service providers with lifecycle-driven AML, transaction monitoring, and financial crime prevention capabilities built for fast-moving, digital-first payment environments.

Supporting industry collaboration in an evolving payments landscape

The payments landscape is undergoing rapid transformation, shaped by digital innovation, shifting regulatory expectations, and the growing sophistication of financial crime threats.

The Payments Association (TPA) brings together more than 250 organisations across the payments value chain, creating a collaborative environment where fintechs, banks, payment providers, regulators, and technology partners engage on shared challenges. Through policy forums, working groups, and research initiatives, the Association enables members to anticipate regulatory change and respond collectively to emerging risks.

For RelyComply, joining this ecosystem provides access to the organisations influencing the operational and regulatory direction of payments. This ensures its AML technology remains closely aligned to the practical challenges faced by payment providers on the ground.

Through this membership, RelyComply will actively contribute to industry discussions and collaborate with key stakeholders working to shape the future of AML compliance and financial crime prevention.

Building stronger financial crime defences together

As financial crime becomes more automated and complex, collaboration between industry bodies and technology providers is increasingly critical. Globally, digital payments continue to rise sharply, while fraud patterns such as account misuse, synthetic identities, and AI-enabled attacks are becoming more prevalent.

At the same time, the expansion of real-time payments, open banking frameworks, and emerging payment rails is significantly reducing the time available for intervention, compressing compliance decisions into seconds – highlighting the need for adaptive, AI-enabled monitoring, capable of responding across the full AML-lifecycle.

What The Payments Association (TPA) enables

Through its membership structure, The Payments Association (TPA) offers RelyComply meaningful access to industry insight, regulatory engagement, and collaborative initiatives that support innovation in AML for payment ecosystems:

• Direct interaction with payment providers, fintechs, and banks managing evolving fraud and AML challenges
• Participation in specialist working groups covering financial crime, digital payments, cross-border flows, and regulatory transformation
• Access to policy development discussions and research influencing payments regulation
• Opportunities to contribute technical perspectives to emerging standards and industry best practice
• Collaboration with ecosystem partners addressing shared financial crime challenges

What RelyComply contributes

In return, RelyComply brings hands-on expertise and practical experience to the broader ecosystem, particularly around operational AML effectiveness in complex payment environments:

• Deep knowledge of lifecycle-based AML covering customer onboarding, transaction monitoring, and continuous risk assessment
• Experience supporting fintechs and payment providers operating across multiple regulatory frameworks
• Technical insight into AI-enabled monitoring approaches designed to adapt to evolving financial crime typologies
• Contribution of implementation-led perspectives to industry discussions, helping translate regulatory expectations into operational frameworks
• Active participation in initiatives aimed at strengthening financial crime detection and prevention across payment networks

A unified approach to financial system integrity

At the core of this partnership is a shared belief: that collaboration is key to building a safer, more inclusive financial system.

By combining RelyComply’s expertise in AML technology with The Payments Association’s industry convening power, the partnership helps strengthen alignment between regulatory intent, industry realities, and operational execution.

Together, both organisations aim to support a more resilient and better-connected payments ecosystem.

Looking forward

As payment systems continue to evolve, partnerships between technology providers and industry bodies will remain essential in ensuring AML strategies keep pace with real-world transaction behaviour and emerging regulatory expectations.

RelyComply looks forward to actively engaging within The Payments Association (TPA) community, contributing insights, and collaborating with peers on approaches that enhance how payment firms manage financial crime risk.