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OCBC and Singapore Police Freeze Over 300 Accounts, Seize S$1.8 Million

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This activity hindered efforts to track and regulate the flow of funds, posing significant challenges for authorities in combating financial crimes. In response, ASC and OCBC collaborated to utilise in-house data analytic models and network detection tools to identify and freeze accounts exhibiting potential money mule behavior.

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Bitcoin Daily: Argentina Open To Crypto; eToro Launching In US; South Korea Fights Crypto Crimes

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And South Korea has launched a task force to combat crypto fraud and FinTech-related crimes. According to The Next Web , the move comes after South Korea saw an 800-percent increase in crypto crimes in the last three years.

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How to Reduce AML False Positives and False Negatives

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These issues seem to be universal across the banking industry, as an Ovum survey of those that work in AML at UK banks found: 83% say a major business concern is the risk of reputation damage from failures to tackle financial crime. Discover the new capabilities in Falcon X - a solution for fraud management and financial crime compliance.

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