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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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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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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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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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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. However, well-implemented models can have a significant difference in compliance activities, particularly when dealing with complex matching challenges.

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How AML Case Management Drives Efficiency in Financial Investigations

Seon

Efficient case management systems can pre-populate SARs with information from custom fields, leveraging generative AI to write SAR narratives and direct filing with regulatory authorities. When classified as high risk, Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) is performed to provide a deeper analysis of the potential risks.

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