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Fenergo: Financial Firms Hit With 57% More Financial Fines in 2023 for Compliance Shortcomings

The Fintech Times

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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How to Maintain Anti-Money Laundering Compliance as a PayFac

Stax

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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FinCen Director On Why Casino Cooperation Is Central To Fighting Financial Crime 

PYMNTS

He went on to note that their AML obligation and suspicious activity reporting obligations remained unchanged and that to aid in their efforts at enhanced compliance FinCen has recently updated its SAR reporting forms to include “cyber-indicators” of potentially problematic transactions.

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Financial Crime: Technology can Transform Compliance

FICO

By combining advanced AML analytics in scoring processes and robotics in alert and case handling you tremendously improve efficiency and effectiveness in compliance. Our analytics-driven AML solution monitors transactions for unusual behavior and offers advanced link analysis, pattern recognition, profiling based detection. In the U.S.