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

Seon

List Checking : Comparing information against core sanctions lists, such as the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) Consolidated List, OFAC’s Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) List, the European Union’s Consolidated List of Sanctions, the United Nations Security Council’s Consolidated List, and other local regulatory watchlists.

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Financial Crime: Technology can Transform Compliance

FICO

In September 2019, Fico and Visma announced their partnership to Offer SaaS Anti Financial Crime Solutions in Western Europe. I also manage the partner channels and programs for our financial crime compliance solutions. In this excerpt from that article, Jürgen elaborates on the importance of compliance. .

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How to Maintain Anti-Money Laundering Compliance as a PayFac

Stax

Learn More Understanding AML Basics With money laundering, perpetrators try to hide criminal activities ranging from small-time bribery or tax evasion to drug trafficking or organized crime. This can be a source of serious threats like global organized crime, terrorist financing, drug and weapons trafficking, and other financial crimes.

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

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More broadly, however, Blanco’s theme was the interconnectedness of the financial system – and how diligence and transparency is the key to combating money laundering and other financial crimes in the U.S. and around the world.

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GIACT: Beneficial Ownership Compliance: Ready But Mostly Not

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May 11 marks a watershed moment of sorts for financial institutions (FIs), with new requirements for customer due diligence. According to new processes mandated by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and the U.S. Barnhardt noted that FinCEN’s Customer Due Diligence rules are fluid ones.

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Bridging Banking Gaps For Cannabis Companies

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Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (or FinCEN for short). Tech, then, and specifically cloud-based platforms and services such as those offered by Green Check — spanning onboarding and due diligence activities and transaction monitoring — connects these two highly-regulated industries.

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