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Navigating AML obligations in the age of virtual IBANs

The Payments Association

While vIBANs offer innovation in payment systems, they introduce risks like money laundering due to insufficient oversight. Payment Service Providers must strengthen due diligence, monitoring, and collaboration with regulators to address these risks. This leads to inadequate due diligence. What’s next?

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Navigating legal uncertainty: How the Digital Assets Bill could impact PSPs

The Payments Association

Operational adjustments To address the implications of the Bill and the regulators crypto-regulatory roadmap, PSPs will need to make significant operational adjustments, including enhanced due diligencethe proposals for admissions and disclosures (A&D) and market abuse regimes (MARC).

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FinTech Firms Combine KYB With KYC For Identity Verification

PYMNTS

So the idea that the money laundering directive in Europe would mandate beneficial ownership as a part of enhanced customer due diligence “is, in some ways, the logical next step,” Gaddy said. In that case, the company checks two different sources in a given country with two different rule sets.

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Video-Based KYC Fixes Its Gaze On Fraudsters

PYMNTS

PYMNTS’ December 2020 Digital Identity Tracker® , done in collaboration with Jumio , delves with enthusiasm and deep detail into the burgeoning field of video-based KYC , highlighting a number of compelling use cases from around the world that showcase its effectiveness. That’s expected to cost banks an $168.9

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App Store Approach Helps Banks Manage Partners, Speed Digital Transformation

PYMNTS

He offered up the use case where a globally-oriented bank may be considering a new market — and specifically wants to launch a new lending business. “If Launching Into New Markets.

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Millennials Reluctant To Give Personal Data, Businesses Depend On It

PYMNTS

It’s All About The Use Case . Knowing the customer is a given — not to mention a regulatory requirement — and more challenging than ever as the bad guys become more sophisticated in their use of technology to try and outsmart the good guys. “But I think it really depends on the use case,” said Ayers.

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Airwallex CEO and Co-Founder Jack Zhang?—?empowering businesses to grow beyond borders

Wharton Fintech

In embedded finance, we focus on three use cases: payment for platforms, embedding money movement into core products (global treasury), and enabling startups to build global or domestic banking products. Therefore, I don’t see a compelling need for cryptocurrencies to play a prominent role in this domain.