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AI Meets AML: How Smart Analytics Fight Money Laundering

FICO

One of the places where AI can make a huge difference today is in anti-money laundering (AML). 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.

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Money mules create a real-time AML problem: Here’s how to address it

The Payments Association

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. Yet, money mules arent just a fraud or cyber problem.

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Deep Dive: How FinTechs, FIs Can Arm Up Against Fraud

PYMNTS

Financial services providers that slack on regulatory compliance and fail to safeguard their operations against money laundering, terrorist financing and other criminal activities may face damaged reputations and significant fines. A report found that the U.S. imposed a full $23.52 billion and the Middle East levied $9.5

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Top 5 Fraud & Security Posts: AI Meets AML (and Hackers)

FICO

One of the newer applications of artificial intelligence rose to the top of the Fraud & Security blog last year: anti-money laundering. AI Meets AML: How Smart Analytics Fight Money Laundering. Readers were also keenly interested in learning more about cybersecurity and ATM compromise trends. Read the full post.

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Payment Screening: What Is It, How It Works and Its Importance

Seon

With the rise of online transactions and real-time payments, the risk of fraudulent activity has surged, putting financial institutions and businesses in a constant battle to protect their customers and themselves. Compliance with anti-money laundering (AML) regulations is now a legal obligation.

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Stopping Financial Crime in Australia

FICO

Stopping financial crime in Australia is an age-old problem, but today’s criminals have become so sophisticated that long-standing anti-money laundering (AML) systems and processes are no longer keeping up. Much more needs to be done to modernise efforts for fighting such criminal activity. 1) Compliance Culture vs Cost Centre.

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Know Your Transaction: Why & How It Can Help You

Seon

That means money laundering can account for anywhere between $800 billion and $2 trillion annually. Thankfully, much of the answer to this corrupt financial activity boils down to organizations ensuring that they carry out an anti-money laundering process called Know Your Transaction (KYT). Why Is KYT Important?