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US Treasury Warns Banks Of Twitter Crypto Scam

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FinCEN says financial institutions (FIs) should be on the lookout for “suspicious activity,” such as high volumes of payments deposited in accounts over short periods of time, from previously unaffiliated accounts or multiple originating CVC addresses.

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FinCEN Files Show Banks’ ‘Whack-a-Mole’ Battle Against KYC/AML

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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. Risk factors include monitoring the volume/nature of the transactions and government responsibilities.

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Ex-US Bank Risk Officer Fined For AML Failure

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The bank had also neglected to submit suspicious activity reports (SARs) on time. Staff had also sent memos to LaFontaine alerting him that the AML staff was “stretched dangerously thin” because of increased SAR volumes and law enforcement inquiries. The OCC also warned U.S.

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

The Fintech Times

. “Currently, the adoption of AI centres around assisting with often mundane tasks: that is, for example, using a large language model to help speed up written tasks such as reports and filings; using AI to help score and prioritise surveillance alerts; and looking for patterns and relationships across large volumes of unstructured data.

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

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They must also ensure that they do not sweep up legitimate transactions in their fraud fighting efforts, as this may introduce customer frictions, and the resultant investigating and filing of suspicious activity reports (SARs) on false positives might drain . resources.

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Behavioral Analytics Attack Fraud, Cyber and Financial Crime

FICO

Behavioral analytics technology allows us to flag potentially fraudulent transactions with pinpoint accuracy, greatly reducing the volume of “false positives,” or transactions flagged as potentially fraudulent that are, in fact, legitimate. Behavioral analytics are a mature technology in fraud prevention.

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RPA for AML and KYC – Automate Financial Crime Investigations

FICO

RPA is essential for this transformation to achieving efficiency by automating repetitive, high-volume processes with many manual tasks and data collection and thus allow their human resources to focus on other high-value tasks. Automated Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) e-filing. Data collection.