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Cognitive Analytics for AML – Making SARs Count

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is to the existing Bank Secrecy Act (BSA)/anti-money laundering (AML) regime. Among the key provisions is addressing the increasing burden on financial institutions required to file Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) and the enormous amount of data flowing to Treasury’s Financial Crime Enforcement Network (FinCEN). In the U.S.,

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Ex-US Bank Risk Officer Fined For AML Failure

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Bank , with a $450,000 civil penalty for his negligence in failing to intercept breaches of the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), FinCEN announced on Wednesday (March 4). . Bank had in place erroneously capped the number of alerts, which hindered law enforcement’s ability to spot suspicious activity.

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How to Maintain Anti-Money Laundering Compliance as a PayFac

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TL;DR An anti-money laundering (AML) program is a set of laws and procedures that seek to uncover attempts to disguise illicit money as legitimate. The Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) establishes AML program requirements for financial institutions in the US while the USA Patriot Act lays down which entities are required to comply.

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

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The data that casinos have the power to feed into the system under Banking Secrecy Act reporting requirements in the form of suspicious activity reports (SARS), he noted, not only has the power to keep the work of legal gambling a transparent and compliant place. Let me assure you, this is not the case.

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Financial Crime Predictions 2021: More AI & Ransomware

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Despite the enormous efforts banks put into AML monitoring, the effectiveness of the overall system to combat financial crime is disappointingly low: for example, only 4% of SARs prompt law enforcement inquiry. Earlier this year in the U.S.,