PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Chinese authorities have made a series of arrests alleging more than $2 billion was laundered at offshore gambling sites through faux eCommerce purchases. The Financial Times (FT) reported police acknowledged that in a scheme to avoid China’s tough financial regulations, thieves have targeted sites including Pinduoduo Inc.,

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PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2019

Meanwhile, several global scandals have brought the importance of anti-money laundering (AML) protections to the forefront. The more than $220 billion money laundering scandal involving Estonia-based Danske Bank continues to affect the global banking world. Deep Dive: Digital Banking and Anti-Money Laundering.

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Fintech Finance

OCTOBER 11, 2024

TD Bank Group (“TD” or the “Bank”) (TSX: TD) (NYSE: TD) today announced that, following several years of active cooperation and engagement with authorities and regulators, it has reached a resolution of previously disclosed investigations related to its U.S. AML leadership team. The Bank and certain of its U.S.

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Fintech News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

As data privacy regulations tighten across APAC, driven by growing digital transformation and increased awareness of privacy concerns, Sumsub’s LDP solution aims to help businesses navigate these evolving requirements. LDP simplifies compliance with these local regulations by ensuring data is stored and processed locally.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2018

According to Reuters , the Paris-based global AML watchdog revealed that jurisdictions around the world will be required to license or regulate cryptocurrency exchanges, as well as select firms providing encrypted wallets and firms providing financial services for ICOs. Countries have attempted to rein in the market.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 15, 2020

When Jumio acquired anti-money laundering (AML) solutions platform Beam last week, the move was more significant than simply adding AML strength to its onboarding platform, Jumio ’s Chief Product Officer Philipp Pointner told PYMNTS in a recent conversation. “We The Pandemic Creates A Growing AML Need.

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Fintech News

APRIL 10, 2024

These efforts cover a comprehensive range of regulatory concerns, including but not limited to licensing requirements, reserve asset management, redemption rights, capital adequacy, consumer protection, and compliance with anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorism financing (CFT) guidelines.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The reality of the global financial system is that there will always be attempts to launder money and evade sanctions; the responsibility of banks is to build effective screening and monitoring systems, and we work closely with regulators and law enforcement to bring perpetrators to justice.”. billion in fines.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Credit Suisse has been indicted by Swiss prosecutors for allegedly failing to prevent money laundering, Bloomberg reports, adding that a former bank manager was also indicted alongside Credit Suisse. Credit Suisse, the case determined, had failed to freeze 35 million francs subject to a 2007 seizure order. “The

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2020

billion in laundered money flow through cryptocurrency exchanges, up from $1 billion in 2018. Government regulators and cryptocurrency exchanges are frantically looking for ways to regulate and prevent the laundering of stolen money through cryptocurrencies, with some methods showing more promise than others.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

That holds true for money launderers as well. Their particular business benefits from such shifts, as the best money launderers seek out new holes in anti-money laundering (AML) defenses, and new ways to escape the notice of law enforcement and regulators. One factor is lack of awareness.

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Fintech Review

OCTOBER 1, 2024

A new focus on digital identity verification As the financial landscape continues to evolve, the importance of Anti-Money Laundering ( AML ) and Know Your Customer (KYC) processes has never been more pronounced. The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 plays a crucial role in improving AML and KYC compliance.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

CSI) is partnering with Featurespace to advance a new cybercrime solution to fight money laundering. By partnering with Featurespace, we’re providing our customers with a powerful AML solution that leverages the latest in machine learning to fight illicit activity and ensure compliance.”. Computer Services, Inc.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Cryptocurrency exchanges like BitGo have often come under fire from traditional financial institutions (FIs) as well as government agencies for suspicions of harboring money launderers that leverage cryptocurrencies to trade in their ill-gotten gains for clean, spendable funds. regulations.”.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2020

All eCommerce sites and payment providers have one thing in common no matter their size: the constant and pervasive threat of money launderers using their businesses to process ill-gotten gains, conceal the funds’ sources and convert them into clean, taxable income that government authorities cannot track.

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Neopay

MARCH 15, 2024

HM Treasury has initiated an open consultation aimed at refining the Money Laundering Regulations (MLRs) to bolster their effectiveness while reducing burdens on legitimate customers. System coordination: Strengthening coordination among various systems involved in combating money laundering and terrorist financing.

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Fintech News

AUGUST 1, 2024

This service aims to streamline business due diligence and compliance for financial institutions and SMEs, addressing counter-party risk, credit exposure, and compliance with anti-money laundering (AML) regulations. JewelPaymentech, acquired by ADVANCE.AI ADVANCE.AI Earlier this year, ADVANCE.AI

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Fintech News

DECEMBER 3, 2024

In addition to being the only Asia-based company selected for the Mastercard Start Path programme and the first regulated POS in Singapore to accept cryptocurrencies, dtcpay has garnered numerous accolades. This surge highlights the increasing demand for stability and reliability in digital payments.

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Fintech Finance

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Led by Intix, the survey explored readiness levels and compliance with key regulations, including ISO 20022 standards, as well as the readiness of banks as they prepare to meet the EU’s Instant Payments Regulation, which takes effect in January 2025 for receiving instant payment transactions and October 2025 for sending instant payment transactions.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Money laundering is a never-ending threat to payments providers of all types, but especially to those that operate online. Payments providers are constantly exploring new ways to protect themselves and their merchant partners from fraudsters aiming to exploit them for the purpose of money laundering.

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Neopay

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Those of you who were in the payments space pre-COVID, might remember my industry talks about ‘Why the World Needs Money Laundering’. A history of money laundering The concept of money laundering goes back to long before money itself existed. Even the 3 stages (placement (i.e.

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Neopay

JULY 18, 2024

Money laundering is a pervasive issue, affecting economies and societies worldwide. This clandestine nature makes it challenging to quantify the exact amount laundered annually. The anonymity offered by cryptocurrencies makes them attractive for laundering illicit funds.

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Payments Source

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Swiss financial regulator Finma said Libra would need a payment system license and would be subject to additional rules to take “bank-like” risks into account. The “highest international anti-money laundering standards” would also need to be applied, it said in a statement on Wednesday.

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FICO

JUNE 9, 2022

FICO’s New AML Scores Use AI and Machine Learning to Detect More Money Laundering. New AML scores reduce false positive alerts by 50% while detecting 100% of known money laundering transactions, and discover new aberrant, potentially risky behaviors. asokolowski@speednet.pl. Fri, 06/03/2022 - 12:24.

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Fintech News

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

2023 marked a pivotal year in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region’s approach to crypto regulation, influenced significantly by the preceding implosion of Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX exchange and the collapse of of Terra, the algorithmic stablecoin created by Korean entrepreneur Do Kwon.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Federal Reserve ordered Credit Suisse to boost its anti-money laundering (AML) policies, citing shortcomings in its U.S. operations, Reuters reported. Reuters reported that the order was reached via a joint agreement between the New York Department of Financial Services and the Fed.

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FICO

AUGUST 4, 2021

It is well known that dealing in art can be a vehicle for money laundering and terrorist finance. And yet they are exchanging hands for huge sums, making them a great vehicle for money launderers. So, how do criminals go about using NFTs to launder money? A single grey pixel sold for ~$1.4 by Erik Stretz.

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The Fintech Times

APRIL 26, 2024

PwC , the assurance, tax and advisory services provider, has published a new report revealing what factors impact effective anti-money laundering (AML) practices the most. In fact, many do not think they are addressing the practicalities of modern AML operations as a result of current and upcoming AML regulations.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Trade finance players, including corporates, banks and regulators, are finally ready to embrace modernization and technology. As a highly regulated area of financial services, trade finance has struggled to enter the digital age. Previously, regulation was very slow in adapting and approving of different technology," he said.

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Fintech Finance

JULY 16, 2024

The Financial Stability Board (FSB) published today, for public consultation, its proposed recommendations to promote greater alignment in data frameworks related to cross-border payments and consistency in the regulation and supervision of bank and non-bank payment service providers.

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The Paypers

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The Legislative Council of Hong Kong has passed a bill to amend the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing Ordinance (AMLO).

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Finextra

DECEMBER 3, 2024

NICE Actimize, a NICE (NASDAQ: NICE) business, has been chosen by Creand Crèdit Andorrà to upgrade and modernise its anti-money laundering (AML) solutions strategy by integrating an advanced suite of NICE Actimize’s financial crime solutions into its operations to address the world’s AML regulations more effectively.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

That sentiment was underscored earlier this month when South Korea said it would delist a number of altcoins from an exchange over privacy concerns – namely, the anonymous nature of the transactions are at odds with the goals of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), which include combating money laundering and fraud.

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Neopay

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Given the cross-border nature of financial crime, the new authority will boost the efficiency of the anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) framework, by creating an integrated mechanism with national supervisors to ensure obliged entities comply with AML/CFT-related obligations in the financial sector.

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Bank Automation

OCTOBER 31, 2024

said US regulators may take action against the firm over its efforts to detect suspected money laundering and sanctions violations, as well as its handling of payments on the Zelle network. may take action over money laundering, Zelle appeared first on Bank Automation News. Bank of America Corp.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2019

Consider the fact that, as noted in the most recent AML/KYC Tracker produced as a collaboration between PYMNTS and Trulioo , money laundering is estimated by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to be an $800 million to $2 trillion-per-year problem, equivalent to 2 percent to 5 percent of the global GDP.

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Fintech News

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The framework is designed to ensure compliance with international standards, particularly in relation to anti-money laundering (AML) and countering the financing of terrorism (CFT). The consultation paper outlines MAS’ proposed approach to licensing and regulating DTSPs.

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