The Fintech Times

MAY 18, 2024

Crypto exchange, Binance has played a massive part in solving a major crypto-assisted money laundering case in Taiwan involving nearly NT$200million (approximately US$6million). Binance was able to share its blockchain expertise and intelligence to help law enforcement bring the suspects to justice.

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The Fintech Times

MARCH 27, 2024

Five people, including convicted fraudster Neale Rothera , were sentenced for their involvement in a fraud and money laundering scheme which cost banks over £500,000 earlier this week. But with the money unrecoverable, how can this type of situation be avoided in the future?

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FICO

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

For many consumers and businesses, the ability to quickly send money directly from their bank account is a win in terms of convenience, but it isn’t without risk, when it comes to fraud and other types of financial crime. How RealTime Payments Impact Financial Crime. Money Laundering and the Rise of the Money Mule.

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The Fintech Times

APRIL 29, 2024

In the last two decades, anti-money laundering (AML) regulatory framework, processes and mechanisms have not changed much. As a result, fraudsters are capitalising on firms’ inadequacies to spot and deal with money laundering. Is the global anti-money laundering (AML) system broken? What’s the problem?

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Stax

DECEMBER 4, 2023

According to a UN report, money laundering activities of about $1.6 The US, therefore, requires financial institutions as well as financial services firms to have anti-money laundering (or AML) compliance programs in place. trillion took place in 2020, accounting for about 2.7% of global GDP.

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BioCatch

OCTOBER 30, 2024

According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the estimated amount of money laundered globally each year is between $800 billion and $2 trillion. Funds from illicit activities – from financial fraud and terrorist financing to drug and human trafficking, flow across multiple institutions and jurisdictions every day.

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The Fintech Times

APRIL 3, 2024

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has introduced COSMIC, a digital platform aimed at bolstering the global financial system’s defences against money laundering (ML), terrorism financing (TF), and proliferation financing (PF).

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The Payments Association

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

On 6 November 2024, the government released its guidance to organisations on the offence of failure to prevent fraud , introduced as part of the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (ECCTA). The FCAs financial crime guide outlines expectations for firms regarding anti-money laundering (AML) and fraud prevention.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2018

3) that urged banks to study and implement “where appropriate” methods that would bring innovate approaches to anti-money laundering efforts and Bank Secrecy Act compliance. Late last week, the Senate Banking Committee held a hearing on updating the Bank Secrecy Act’s anti-money laundering requirements.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 13, 2018

CUs are also actively communicating with law enforcement agencies, keeping regulators informed about suspicious activity, while receiving tips on noticeable trends that these same agencies are eyeing. AML Compliance Turns CUs Into Law Enforcement. Add it all up, and that can be a lot to handle. About The Tracker .

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Fintech News

APRIL 22, 2024

This move aims to enhance law enforcement efficiency and prevent the laundering of money obtained through illegal activities. This strategy mirrors actions taken by other countries, such as India and the Philippines, where unauthorised platforms are similarly blocked to safeguard consumers and combat financial crimes.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2018

The European Union’s (EU’s) banking supervisor wants to know more about how Denmark’s financial watchdog supervised Danske Bank , which is being investigated by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) over alleged money laundering. “We Last month, it was revealed that U.S.

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Neopay

JULY 18, 2024

Money laundering is a pervasive issue, affecting economies and societies worldwide. This clandestine nature makes it challenging to quantify the exact amount laundered annually. The anonymity offered by cryptocurrencies makes them attractive for laundering illicit funds.

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Neopay

MARCH 15, 2024

HM Treasury has initiated an open consultation aimed at refining the Money Laundering Regulations (MLRs) to bolster their effectiveness while reducing burdens on legitimate customers. System coordination: Strengthening coordination among various systems involved in combating money laundering and terrorist financing.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2019

Blanco took to the stage at the 12th Annual Las Vegas Anti-Money Laundering Conference yesterday (August 13). More broadly, however, Blanco’s theme was the interconnectedness of the financial system – and how diligence and transparency is the key to combating money laundering and other financial crimes in the U.S.

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FICO

DECEMBER 23, 2020

The global pandemic has driven a dramatic change in consumer behavior, not least an exponential rise in the use of digital and mobile channels for banking and financial services, increased competition from fintechs, and the rise of open banking. Here is how we predict banks will endeavor to enhance their financial crimes controls in 2021: 1.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Department of Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) show that several of the largest global banks moved money on behalf of scores of individuals and enterprises involved in criminal financial activity. To that end, and as reported by BuzzFeed , documents submitted by banks to the U.S.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Financial crime is drawing scrutiny — and fines — at large financial institutions. To that end, ING Group said it has agreed to pay 775 million euros — about US$900 million — to settle investigations by Dutch authorities over money laundering and other illicit activities.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Bank was slapped with a $185 million civil penalty for what the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), in coordination with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), said were violations of the Bank Secrecy Act. Since 2011, FinCEN claimed U.S. Banks in the U.S.

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The Payments Association

APRIL 23, 2025

To address the money mule problem, organisations must combine elements of fraud prevention, cyber threat intelligence, and anti-money laundering capabilities. It takes AML teams weeks (if not months) of diligent analysis to escalate these activities to law enforcement. Is AML a real-time problem?

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FICO

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

A new report from LexisNexis on Future Financial Crime Risks (September 2017) highlights the stress felt by UK banks around financial crime compliance. Given the rapid change in financial compliance regulations, it’s easy to see why the 170 financial crime professionals surveyed felt overwhelmed.

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FICO

JUNE 9, 2022

FICO’s New AML Scores Use AI and Machine Learning to Detect More Money Laundering. New AML scores reduce false positive alerts by 50% while detecting 100% of known money laundering transactions, and discover new aberrant, potentially risky behaviors. asokolowski@speednet.pl. Fri, 06/03/2022 - 12:24. by Scott Zoldi.

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FICO

JANUARY 19, 2022

From TBML to BNPL to NFTs, 2021 found fraud and financial crime professionals dealing with a plethora of new challenges and criminal schemes. Our five most popular posts of the year dealt with trade-based money laundering, non-fungible tokens, buy now pay later scams, courier scams and good old credit card fraud.

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The Fintech Times

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Recent hires Recent compliance hires include: Todd McElduff – enterprise compliance director The enterprise compliance team at Binance is responsible for working with law enforcement to service requests and conduct special investigations, educating and training crime fighters.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2018

investigation into money laundering at Danske Bank ’s Estonia branch, shares of the bank have reached the lowest level in four years on Friday (October 5). Danske Bank’s interim chief financial officer Morten Mosegaard noted that the U.S. Danske Bank’s interim chief financial officer Morten Mosegaard noted that the U.S.

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The Fintech Times

JUNE 30, 2024

Lynx , a provider of artificial intelligence (AI) software that detects and prevents fraud and financial crimes, has introduced a real-time mule detection solution for banks and financial institutions. In the US, money mule accounts represent up to 0.3

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BioCatch

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

BioCatch recently partnered with the Knoble , a nonprofit organization focused on preventing financial and human crime, as well as thought leaders and experts in the banking, law enforcement, and legal community on an information sharing initiative.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 16, 2020

But Kellerman and other security experts advocated at the hearing for legislative measures, such as modernizing anti-money laundering (AML) and forfeiture rules and moving the Secret Service to the Treasury Department, to help combat the threat. However, he noted that the move could negatively impact morale at DHS.

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Finovate

JULY 3, 2024

The USMS will use Coinbase Prime to centrally manage these Class 1 digital assets to facilitate various law enforcement activities. The USMS, a federal law enforcement agency within the Department of Justice, holds multiple roles within the U.S. judicial system.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2018

According to the Associated Press , “money mules” are individuals who (often) unknowingly use their bank accounts to transfer funds for criminals. The FBI is especially concerned about the people who become involved in international money laundering schemes that result in large economic losses.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2018

The People’s Bank of China has announced new anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorism financing regulations for online financial institutions (FIs). The country’s central bank added that it would improve its own supervision process for fighting money laundering and terrorism financing.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York charged four operators of a purported international digital-currency “Ponzi scheme” with money laundering and fraud. As PYMNTS’ Preventing Financial Crimes Playbook recently noted, the U.S. A month earlier, the U.S. The Pandemic Is Making Scams Worse .

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PYMNTS

MARCH 4, 2020

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has fined Michael LaFontaine, former chief operational risk officer at U.S. Bank had in place erroneously capped the number of alerts, which hindered law enforcement’s ability to spot suspicious activity. The automated transaction monitoring software U.S.

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Finovate

JULY 23, 2024

In fact, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has reported that check fraud is becoming increasingly prevalent and, as of 2023, represents more than a third of all fraud at depository institutions. This means that there is an ample opportunity for fraudsters.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs) from the 39-country Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and the Egmont Group Secretariat gathered in Paris to talk about the global repercussions of virtual assets, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) said in a press release. .

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PYMNTS

MARCH 3, 2020

and unsealed on Monday (March 2), Tian Yinyin and Li Jiadong allegedly laundered cryptocurrency stolen by North Korean hackers between December 2017 and April 2019. The Chinese men were charged with money laundering conspiracy and operating an unlicensed money transmitting business. Attorney Timothy J.

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FICO

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

How COVID-19 became a catalyst for financial crime. While things have since improved , this ongoing economic stress will likely make more people susceptible to the siren song of money muling, especially with movement restrictions that severely limit work opportunities. How FICO Can Help You Prevent Financial Crime.

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