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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.

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How to Maintain Anti-Money Laundering Compliance as a PayFac

Stax

An effective AML compliance program must include Know Your Customer (KYC) protocols, transaction monitoring and reporting, risk assessment and categorization, and training and awareness for staff. It mandates ongoing monitoring of suspicious activity, recordkeeping, and submitting suspicious activity reports (SARs) to the government.

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What’s happening with the FCA and AML?

Neopay

One of the current focusses is enhanced due diligence – right through the process, so for example risk assessments, operational processes, monitoring and reviews, its effectiveness in practice. There are a few – but to give a couple of examples: MAPP (Modular Assessment Proactive Programme) is fairly new.

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Know Your Transaction: Why & How It Can Help You

Seon

As such, it is part of an organization’s due diligence. Transactions that can be linked to terrorist financing can be elevated from conventional AML due diligence to advanced AML due diligence. It achieves this through transaction and behavior monitoring, risk assessment, and alert generation.

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

The Fintech Times

The emergence of AI and ML tools has enabled companies to analyse vast amounts of data in real time, detecting patterns that indicate potential compliance risks, such as money laundering, sanctions, or fraud. AI has already transformed compliance processes in the fintech industry by making them faster, more accurate and more efficient.

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Financial Crime: Technology can Transform Compliance

FICO

In our experience these technologies can increase the number of SARs by 20% while at the same time producing efficiency gains of 30% in alert investigation and case management. Our Anti-Financial Crime solutions suite consistently follows the risk-based approach according to FATF and supports the compliance process with integrated modules.