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July Regulatory Updates and Alerts – Copy

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For more details, read the full assessment here: [link] SARs – DAML Threshold Increase to £3,000 From 31 July 2025, the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) (Threshold Amount) (Amendment) Order 2025 will come into force, increasing the DAML threshold from £1,000 to £3,000. 327–329.

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The Rise of Synthetic Identity Fraud in Financial Services

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Failure to file SARs for known synthetic identities brings regulatory penalties. Risk-based authentication adjusts verification requirements based on threat indicators. Suspicious Activity Report filing requirements apply to suspected synthetic identity fraud. Fair lending laws complicate prevention efforts.

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Cognitive Analytics for AML – Making SARs Count

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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). FinCEN received 2,034,406 SARs in 2017 and volume is growing at a double-digit rate annually.

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Challenges in Countering Trade-Based Money Laundering

FICO

Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs) can play a critical role in producing sophisticated analysis on TBML schemes – including reporting entities (SAR/STR data). The graph below shows the trend of TBML-related SARs filed with FinCEN between 2014 and 2018. million SARs filed overall during the same period.

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Using AI and Machine Learning to Improve AML

FICO

Each bank has dedicated large teams whose sole purpose is to monitor financial and non-financial transactions and identify and create suspicious activity reports, or SARs. They rely on a Know-Your-Customer process, and use gaggles of transaction rules to identify SARs. Auto-Encoders for Unsupervised Anomaly Scoring.

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AI Meets AML: How Smart Analytics Fight Money Laundering

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As regulations become ever more demanding, the rules-based systems grow more and more complex with hundreds of rules driving know your customer (KYC) activity and Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) filing. As more rules get added, more and more cases get flagged for investigation while false positive rates keep increasing.

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AI Meets AML: How the Analytics Work

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Our new machine-learning techniques are directed specifically towards real-time, transaction-based KYC anomaly detection and highly refined self-learning models focused on anti-money laundering SAR (suspicious activity report) detection. The weights of the model are either expert-driven or based on limited SAR data.

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