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Partior Closes Series B at US$80 Million with Deutsche Bank Investment

Fintech News

The bank plans to act as a Euro and US dollar settlement bank on Partior’s platform, aligning with its dbX initiative—a correspondent banking ecosystem launched to optimize financial institution client services. Established in 2021 and backed by DBS Bank, J.P.

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Temasek-backed Partior Ledger Expands Following US$60M+ Series B Investment

Fintech News

Traditional cross-border payments encounter various challenges, including delays, high costs, lack of transparency, multiple intermediaries, variable processing speeds, and differing compliance standards across correspondent banks.

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13 Fintech Giants Back Programme Sirius to Promote MSME Sustainability in APAC

Fintech News

These partners include: AlipayHK (Hong Kong SAR, China), ANEXT Bank (Singapore), BigPay (Malaysia), bKash (Bangladesh), DANA (Indonesia), GCash (the Philippines), Hipay (Mongolia), Kakao Pay (Republic of Korea), MPay (Macao SAR, China), TNG Digital (Malaysia), TossPay (Republic of Korea), TrueMoney (Thailand), and Zalopay (Vietnam).

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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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Key learnings from 2024’s biggest financial crime fines

The Payments Association

Inadequate risk management and due diligence : Institutions faced challenges in ensuring effective customer risk profiling and due diligence, particularly for high-risk clients and correspondent banking relationships. SAR and high-risk client backlogs : TD Bank faced delays in reviewing suspicious activity and closing high-risk accounts.

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How AML Case Management Drives Efficiency in Financial Investigations

Seon

If it’s determined a SAR needs to be filed, all the information needed can be found within case details, populated and filed directly with the regulatory authorities. They can also analyze suspects, linked events and monetary movement while also uploading documents and adding notes to capture all pertinent details for a given case.

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Financial Crime Predictions 2021: More AI & Ransomware

FICO

So will high-risk products/services such as correspondent banking and trade finance transactions. Despite the enormous efforts banks put into AML monitoring, the effectiveness of the overall system to combat financial crime is disappointingly low: for example, only 4% of SARs prompt law enforcement inquiry.