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Deep Dive: How FinTechs, FIs Can Arm Up Against Fraud

PYMNTS

Financial services providers that slack on regulatory compliance and fail to safeguard their operations against money laundering, terrorist financing and other criminal activities may face damaged reputations and significant fines. A report found that the U.S. imposed a full $23.52 billion and the Middle East levied $9.5

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Using AI to Streamline Compliance Processes: The Future or Could Too Much go Wrong?

The Fintech Times

She explains while AI can streamline compliance processes and save compliance teams time to spend elsewhere, firms need to be careful about how they implement it. The impact is profound, as AI-driven automation reduces costs, minimises human error, and enhances the speed and accuracy of compliance tasks. Some uses are obvious.

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

Seon

Compliance with anti-money laundering (AML) regulations is now a legal obligation. This process is essential for maintaining compliance in an increasingly regulated financial landscape. How Does the Payment Screening Process Work? Instead, PEP screening is conducted during customer onboarding and periodic reviews.

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RPA for AML and KYC – Automate Financial Crime Investigations

FICO

2021 has been extremely active in dispensing AML violations. Federal Regulators imposed over $200 million in penalties on corporations in just January and February 2021 alone, and many top lawyers feel 2021 will be a record year for AML penalties. Automated Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) e-filing.

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Stopping Financial Crime in Australia

FICO

Like other advanced financial sectors, Australia has a complex and evolving regulatory environment. In comparison to others in the Asia Pacific region, regulation has evolved due to last year’s Royal Commission, updates to the privacy act as well as changes enacted by global bodies such as the FATF (Financial Action Task Force).

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AML in the Pandemic: Three Success Stories

FICO

The Threat Score’s AI algorithm uses up to 24 months of historical data to learn which alerts are closed as false positives, and which ones are highlighted as potential criminal activity based on key features of the alerts, such as velocity, value, and patterns of transactions.

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High-Risk Source of Application: How to Detect and Manage Them

Seon

The term is mostly related to anti-money laundering regulations, such as 6AMLD (the 6th Anti-Money Laundering Directive) , but it also applies to many other areas of fincrime prevention and cyber-security, such as insurance claims and account management. It’s also important to give those who are rejected a chance to appeal.

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