The Payments Association

APRIL 23, 2025

It takes AML teams weeks (if not months) of diligent analysis to escalate these activities to law enforcement. Additional outgoing transfers are stopped, and a Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) is filed within the regulatory deadline. Network analytics identify connections to other mule accounts.

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The Fintech Times

APRIL 29, 2024

If that is not the case, and you observe unusual and/or suspicious activity, submit a report (via a suspicious activity or transaction report – SAR or STR) to your local financial intelligence unit (FIU) for investigation, if necessary, escalate matters to the relevant law enforcement authorities.

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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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FICO

JUNE 9, 2022

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies have long been effective in fighting financial crime, used more than 30 years for fraud detection. AML Threat Score: Reducing False Positives Amid Defensive SAR Filings. The Cascading Effect of Defensive SARs. Rules-based Systems Continue to Underperform.

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Stax

DECEMBER 4, 2023

As such, the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) establishes certain AML program requirements for financial institutions in the US. It mandates ongoing monitoring of suspicious activity, recordkeeping, and submitting suspicious activity reports (SARs) to the government. The USA Patriot Act lays down which entities are required to do so.

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Neopay

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Starting 4 March 2024, the National Crime Agency (NCA) is rolling out a new system for Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs). The current SAR Online System will be replaced by the SAR Portal at 2:00pm GMT. This change is essential, especially for UK SAR reporters who must register for the SAR Portal before the deadline.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network ( FinCEN ) uncovered government documents on how giant financial institutions move trillions of dollars in suspicious transactions, padding their bottom line, while terrorists, drug dealers and corrupt politicians are allowed to run free. FinCEN, a division of the U.S.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

The problem, banks say, is that because they fear the fine and the bad PR from not filing, they’ve gone the other way — they now over-report, filing hundreds of thousands of SARs out of fear of later falling foul of regulators. Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FINCEN).

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