Neopay

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The recent £29 million fine imposed on Starling Bank by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for financial crime failings offers important lessons for businesses in the e-money and payments industry. Key takeaway : If your business deals with high-risk clients, it’s crucial to implement enhanced due diligence procedures.

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Stax

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

That’s a lot of money being exchanged—and also provides a huge amount of possibility for financial crime. Financial crime can take on several faces, including (cyber) fraud, cryptocurrency scams, and money laundering—and companies offering financial services can lose out on serious bucks. In the U.S.,

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Fintech News

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Singapore is enhancing its anti-money laundering (AML) framework with new recommendations from the Inter-Ministerial Committee (IMC). The IMC’s recommendations aim to adapt Singapore’s AML framework to counter increasingly sophisticated criminal methods.

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The Paypers

JULY 23, 2021

Varo Bank has selected financial crime investigation firm Quantifind ’s Graphyte platform to optimise its adverse media screening and investigations automation performance.

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FICO

MARCH 6, 2020

In September 2019, Fico and Visma announced their partnership to Offer SaaS Anti Financial Crime Solutions in Western Europe. I also manage the partner channels and programs for our financial crime compliance solutions. For more than two decades I have now been working in the financial services industry.

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The Fintech Times

JANUARY 13, 2024

Fenergo has released their annual financial fines analysis, showcasing that penalties for failing to comply with anti-money laundering (AML), KYC, environmental, social, and governance (ESG), sanctions and customer due diligence (CDD) regulations totalled $6.6billion in 2023, up considerably from $4.2billion in 2022 and $5.4billion in 2021.

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Seon

APRIL 11, 2024

As fraud gains in volume and velocity, so too will the need for fraudsters to launder their profits – and as cross-border financial crimes are here to stay, no institution or location is immune. Moving in the other direction, fraud teams can leverage traditional AML information to create more robust and refined risk rulings.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Department of Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) show that several of the largest global banks moved money on behalf of scores of individuals and enterprises involved in criminal financial activity. As BuzzFeed reported, “laws that were meant to stop financial crime have instead allowed it to flourish.

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FICO

JUNE 23, 2022

The Role of Data in Managing Fraud and Financial Crime Today. In case you missed it, FICO World 2022 was a very welcome return to in-person learning and networking for the global fraud detection and financial crime-fighting community. Fraud Detection and AML Collaboration. Tue, 07/02/2019 - 02:45. by TJ Horan.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Financial crimes risk management software company Quantifind and Oracle Financial Services have teamed up to improve anti-money laundering (AML) compliance and to add intelligence and automation properties directly into the compliance workflows, according to a release.

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Seon

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) estimates that two to five percent of global GDP, approximately $2 trillion, is laundered annually. Compliance with anti-money laundering (AML) regulations is now a legal obligation. Stay Ahead of Financial Crime Fight the rising tide of payment fraud and strengthen your defenses now.

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Finovate

JUNE 20, 2024

.” Refine Intelligence’s Digital Customer Outreach platform helps financial crime and compliance teams tackle a range of fraud and financial crime issues. Refine Intelligence made its Finovate debut at FinovateEurope 2023.

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Stax

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The US, therefore, requires financial institutions as well as financial services firms to have anti-money laundering (or AML) compliance programs in place. In this article, we’ll discuss everything you need to know about ensuring AML compliance as a payment facilitator (or PayFac). Let’s get started.

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Neopay

JANUARY 25, 2024

The new Guidelines highlight ML/TF risk factors and mitigating measures that CASPs need to consider, representing an important step forward in the EU’s fight against financial crime. CASPs can be abused for financial crime purposes, including ML and TF. The amending Guidelines will apply from 30 December 2024.

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The Fintech Times

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Previously, the AML focus was primarily on conducting due diligence during the onboarding of new customers and periodically throughout the customer lifecycle. “This necessitates a complementary risk identification and mitigation effort involving AML and fraud. events per 100,000 people.

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Neopay

JUNE 27, 2024

Many in financial services have been concerned that some elements of the FCA’s more stringent approach may not always be justified by reductions in financial crime and money laundering or consumer protection. These policies should include all aspects of compliance including complaints, financial promotions and wind down plans.

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FICO

JULY 14, 2016

The sheer scope of financial crime—money laundering, evasion of sanctions, financing of terror and other transgressions—is shocking. All of these crimes were years in the making, which makes me think there are many more still out there, still gestating. And follow me on Twitter @FraudBird.

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FICO

JANUARY 18, 2019

Despite advances in customer due diligence, including the addition of advanced analytics to compliance officers’ toolkits, the scandals of 2018 confirmed that many banks are struggling to bring their operations up to regulators’ standards, to say nothing of best practices. Watch this space for more on financial crime compliance!

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Fintech News

JULY 17, 2024

The rapid ascent of cryptocurrency has ushered in a new era of financial innovation, but it has also created novel challenges in combating financial crime. These figures underscore the immense challenge facing regulators and law enforcement agencies in their efforts to curb illicit financial flows in the crypto space.

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The Fintech Times

JANUARY 25, 2024

Given this backdrop, things are about to become a lot more complex for banks and financial service providers as they seek to onboard new customers and maintain due diligence on existing ones. The majority adopts a globally standardised approach with some differentiation in PEP levels.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2019

More broadly, however, Blanco’s theme was the interconnectedness of the financial system – and how diligence and transparency is the key to combating money laundering and other financial crimes in the U.S. and around the world. This includes offering sports betting through a mobile app.”.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Following scandals at European lenders, the European Central Bank (ECB) wants the European Union (EU) to step up enforcement of anti-money laundering (AML) rules. To that end, the bank recommends that the bloc make a “single agency” for the task as the ideal solution, the Financial Times reported.

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Finovate

AUGUST 13, 2024

Abrigo Abrigo has been trusted by 2,500+ financial institutions for over 20 years to fight financial crime. The organization’s FinCrime suite includes market leading AML and fraud solutions. Features Diadem Capital helps investors and lenders streamline due diligence, showcasing only the top prospects.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2019

In addition to the check issues, Deutsche Bank is looking into other “critical” and “significant” failings found by auditors, including client due-diligence name list screening practices in Hong Kong, Singapore and India, and staff sending sensitive information over WhatsApp or personal emails.

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The Fintech Times

JUNE 20, 2024

As part of the partnership, Finastra will offer Sumsub’s Know-Your-Customer (KYC), Know-Your-Business (KYB), fraud prevention, and ongoing transaction monitoring capabilities to its client base of 8,500 financial institutions around the globe. “We are pleased to partner with Sumsub, following a rigorous due diligence process.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2020

According to a report in ZDNet , Westpac said that “a mix of technology and human error” and “deficient financial crime processes” were behind the financial institution’s (FI’s) lack of compliance with anti-money laundering (AML) regulations. Australian bank Westpac Banking Corp. may stand as Exhibit A here.

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FICO

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

FICO’s Integrated AML Compliance Survey has revealed that while the vast majority of banks in more than 11 countries around the Asia Pacific region believe that AI will strengthen anti-money laundering efforts, many remain unsure how to operationalize the advanced technology. Key drivers of financial crime strategy.

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FICO

JULY 25, 2016

Anti-money laundering (AML) is a good example. My FICO colleague TJ Horan recently blogged about the skyrocketing compliance costs that banks face in their fight against money laundering and other financial crimes. TJ wrote: In 2015 we acquired TONBELLER, an innovator in risk-based financial crime prevention and compliance.

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Neopay

DECEMBER 6, 2023

These reviews mainly focused on areas related to financial crime, controls, risk management, and business conduct, prompting firms to proactively evaluate their practices in these domains. This includes assessing the effectiveness of anti-money laundering (AML) measures, fraud prevention, and adherence to relevant regulations.

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Neopay

MARCH 15, 2024

Key themes of the consultation include: Proportionate customer due diligence: Streamlining and enhancing customer due diligence processes to strike a balance between effectiveness and proportionality. Contact us today to learn how Neopay can support your compliance journey.

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FICO

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Anti-financial crimes regulations require banks to enact robust risk management frameworks, including extensive KYC due diligence, integrated safeguards for AML transaction monitoring, and sanctions screening. To hear more about my thoughts on cryptocurrency and financial crime, connect with me on LinkedIn.

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FICO

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

In yesterday’s post, my colleague TJ Horan introduced the topic of artificial intelligence being applied to anti-money laundering (AML). Today most of the financial institutions use rules-based transaction monitoring and KYC systems to fight money laundering. In the fast-changing world of financial crime, this isn’t good enough.

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Seon

JULY 10, 2024

Reducing financial crimes helps companies avoid substantial expenses related to investigating and rectifying them. Transaction monitoring systems often include this feature to prevent dealings with restricted entities, ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and reduce financial crime risk.

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The Fintech Times

JULY 3, 2024

“While the financial services industry clearly has a role to play in terms of keeping their control environments up to date with the latest advancements in fraud detection and monitoring capabilities, the real battleground is the channels fraudsters exploit to ensnare unsuspecting victims.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2018

With financial crime on the rise, CGI HotScan360 aims to deliver integrated, intelligent and real-time anti-money laundering (AML), customer due diligence and fraud detection capabilities. CGI has announced the launch of CGI HotScan360, an enhanced version of its industry leading HotScan solution.

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Finovate

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Heightened money laundering The document also emphasizes that banks must exercise strengthened internal controls and anti-money laundering (AML) compliance requirements. Notably, the ruling also emphasizes that banks must ensure that their third-party partners do not facilitate financial crimes.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

AUSTRAC, the country’s financial regulator, announced the deal on Thursday (Sept. 24), noting that Westpac had violated anti-money laundering (AML) and terrorism financing regulations more than 23 million times. Australian banking giant Westpac has agreed to a massive fine of $920 million ($1.3 billion. “Our

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