Financial institutions are losing a war against scale. Legacy compliance systems, built for a bygone era, are failing under the weight of surging transaction volumes and financial crime that now costs the global economy between $1.6 and $2 trillion annually, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Anti-Money Laundering (AML) compliance is no longer a back-office function but a strategic imperative, yet the industry's foundational tools are operationally bro