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Financial Crime: Technology can Transform Compliance

FICO

By combining advanced AML analytics in scoring processes and robotics in alert and case handling you tremendously improve efficiency and effectiveness in compliance. 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.

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

Seon

List Checking : Comparing information against core sanctions lists, such as the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) Consolidated List, OFAC’s Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) List, the European Union’s Consolidated List of Sanctions, the United Nations Security Council’s Consolidated List, and other local regulatory watchlists.

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High-Risk Source of Application: How to Detect and Manage Them

Seon

Other regions sanctioned by OFAC include: Balkans Belarus Burma Central African Republic Ethiopia Iraq Lebanon Venezuela Yemen Zimbabwe Organizations may have their own list of high-risk countries. However, the rules set by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (based in the US) tend to be followed by most countries around the world.

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Financial Crime Predictions 2021: More AI & Ransomware

FICO

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. Now compliance professionals will also need to concern themselves with mitigating ransomware sanctions risks (i.e.,