Steward | Your partner in crime

Product Release: What if FATCA/CRS was fun? 👾

Nobody likes FATCA/CRS - it feels like forms that were invented for lawyers by lawyers.

Therefore, we made sure that this experience is magical with our ✨ FATCA/CRS Workflow ✨. One more step in slicing the time of onboarding. The best part is that you can even upload your existing FATCA/CRS form and we will do the rest for you! Check it out below:

👀 Did you know → FATCA penalties are asymmetric? Meaning foreign companies can face huge financial and business risks in terms of withholding tax and correspondent banking loss, but US institutions have no reciprocal sanction ←

Get in touch to check it out our FATCA/CRS solution in a live demo.

Key Highlight this month 🚩 

The teams at Vega & Steward have banded together to offer an integrated solution combining Vega’s AltOS and Steward’s AI-driven AML systems. This will enable fund managers to provide friction-free investor onboarding, automated due diligence, and transparent risk management – all within one connected AltOS ecosystem.

Hiring Spree

• We are growing and growing here at Steward! Bring forward your bravest:

  • 1x Founder’s Associate (London, New York)

  • 2x Business Development (London, New York)

  • 1x Product Designer (New York, Tel Aviv)

  • 2x Full-stack Engineers (New York, Tel Aviv)

Crime Treasures 💰

Gangsters bought a bank! The UK’s NCA recently lifted the lid on Operation Destabilise - and what they uncovered reads less like financial crime and more like a geopolitical thriller. A vast money-laundering network operating across the UK allegedly:

• hoovered up cash from drugs, guns and organised crime

• converted it into crypto at scale

• bought a foreign bank to evade sanctions

• and funnelled money linked to Russia’s war effort

Over 120 arrests. £25m+ seized. This wasn’t hidden in the dark web. It moved through couriers, crypto rails, payment firms and banks - right through the gaps between “normal” compliance checks. Cash-to-crypto is no longer an edge case. It’s critical infrastructure for modern organised crime.

AML just became a matter of national security.

Meme of the Month 🚀

2026 is going to be a year of discovery for a lot of operational teams. Don’t fret it, Steward will be here to help guide you through the biggest trends in AI adoption!