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How to Maintain Anti-Money Laundering Compliance as a PayFac

Stax

An effective AML compliance program must include Know Your Customer (KYC) protocols, transaction monitoring and reporting, risk assessment and categorization, and training and awareness for staff. It mandates ongoing monitoring of suspicious activity, recordkeeping, and submitting suspicious activity reports (SARs) to the government.

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Meet the New Financial Crime Sheriff: Analytics

FICO

Here are two key capabilities we will bring to the compliance/AML arena: Prioritize investigative efforts – By tailoring analytics to help determine the likelihood of specific customer actions resulting in an SAR filing, we can ensure that investigators are reviewing the right situations. We can also cut down on false-positives.

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What’s happening with the FCA and AML?

Neopay

One of the current focusses is enhanced due diligence – right through the process, so for example risk assessments, operational processes, monitoring and reviews, its effectiveness in practice. There are a few – but to give a couple of examples: MAPP (Modular Assessment Proactive Programme) is fairly new. No problem.

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Know Your Transaction: Why & How It Can Help You

Seon

Part of staying compliant with KYT – and thus avoiding fines – involves assessing how effectively your organization has implemented the process. As such, it is part of an organization’s due diligence. It achieves this through transaction and behavior monitoring, risk assessment, and alert generation.

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Payment Screening: What Is It, How It Works and Its Importance

Seon

While PEPs require enhanced due diligence , regulated entities typically don’t screen individual payments against PEP lists due to the risk of excessive false positives. Instead, PEP screening is conducted during customer onboarding and periodic reviews.

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Using AI to Streamline Compliance Processes: The Future or Could Too Much go Wrong?

The Fintech Times

“This improves customer due diligence by concurrently cross-referencing many databases to verify identities with potential clients and any risks associated with them. The impact is profound, as AI-driven automation reduces costs, minimises human error, and enhances the speed and accuracy of compliance tasks.

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Financial Crime: Technology can Transform Compliance

FICO

In our experience these technologies can increase the number of SARs by 20% while at the same time producing efficiency gains of 30% in alert investigation and case management. By combining advanced AML analytics in scoring processes and robotics in alert and case handling you tremendously improve efficiency and effectiveness in compliance.