All Financial Intelligence articles
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NewsCity of London calls for action to boost regtech growth
The City of London Corporation has called for urgent action to tackle barriers to the growth of regulatory technology, including the establishment of a collective ‘industry voice’ to represent the Untied Kingdom regtech sector.
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News
TNO, Rabobank and ABN AMRO report ‘good initial results’ from privacy-enhanced data-sharing AML project
A project to allow the sharing and analysing of transaction information between banks while protecting privacy of customers has had ‘good initial results’ after testing with synthetic data, a bank involved has said.
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Webinar
Tackling the Expanding ‘Shadow IT’ Environment
The ever-growing extension of the official IT environment is one of the biggest challenges for digital forensics practitioners today.
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Video
The Biden Presidency - Key financial crime challenges in a new political landscape
Following the federal elections of 2020, both the US executive branch and both chambers of Congress are under the effective control of the Democrats.
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Video
Striking the balance between FinCrime, Privacy Law, and Encryption - What needs to change?
Efforts to tackle financial crime and requirements to protect privacy can seem conflicted and, in some cases, drive opposite regulatory expectations for the private sector. Increasingly, entities regulated for anti-money laundering (AML) are drawing large amounts of information from third parties to understand customer FinCrime risks.
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Video
The drive for Corporate transparency
For decades scandal after scandal has demonstrated that anonymous shell companies have been used to divert public funds, channel bribes and ill-gotten gains as part of cross border corruption and money laundering schemes.
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Video
A world in Crisis. How has COVID-19 transformed financial crime – and our response?
The COVID-19 pandemic has completely changed what we think of as ‘normal life’.
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Analysis
Seven key themes from FinCrime World Forum Day Two
Here are some of the highlights and key topics of debate from the second and final day of FinCrime World Forum.
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Analysis
Seven key themes from FinCrime World Forum Day One
Financial crime professionals from all over the world gathered virtually today for the FinCrime World Forum. Here are the talking points and takeaways from Day One.
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Analysis
Human hacking: how an understanding of social engineering can combat crime
We hear a lot about technology in anti-financial crime, but human beings can often be the weak link. Chris Hadnagy, ahead of his FinCrime World Forum appearance, talks about the psychological techniques criminals use to deceive humans and what we can do to counter them.
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Analysis
How powerful a weapon is AI in the fight against financial crime?
FinCrime World Forum speaker Janet Bastiman explains the benefits of using AI in Anti Money Laundering compliance processes
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Analysis
Transforming compliance into effective risk management
The “father of GRC” Michael Rasmussen will address FinCrime World Forum next week on the topic of transforming compliance into effective risk management. Here, he tells us about the importance of collaboration, right-brain thinking, enforcing rules, ethics and more.
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Analysis
Blockchain’s ‘insane visibility’ for AML
Blockchain technology is still often seen as enabling secretive behaviour, but FinCrime World Forum speaker Amanda Wick argues that it has huge potential for Anti Money Laundering and Counter Terrorism Financing compliance
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Analysis
The challenges of tackling modern slavery
Ahead of his session at FinCrime World Forum Andrew Wallis OBE explains the drivers behind modern slavery in the UK and what governments and businesses should do to help tackle the problem
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Analysis
Brexit and fincrime: are things are about to get a bit more complicated?
The Brexit trade agreement contains warm words of co-operation on financial crime matters. However, Dr Anna Bradshaw, ahead of her appearance at FinCrime World Forum, fears there may be difficulties further down the line.
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Analysis
Future-proofing and inclusivity: a chat with award-winner Sujata Dasgupta
Sujata Dasgupta is rapidly becoming one of the financial crime compliance sector’s rising thought leaders and has just landed a major award for her efforts.
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Analysis
‘Corporate transparency is a moral and social issue’
Graham Barrow is one of the world’s leading commentators and experts on financial crime and a leading advocate for corporate transparency. Ahead of his appearance at FinCrime World Forum later this month, he speaks to GRC World Forums about why this issue is so important
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How innovators outperform competitors in banking
2021 will be a hard year for the financial sector. The winning strategy is to accelerate digital transformation: build on customer trust and establish true data-centricity by developing synthetic data capabilities to produce accurate and privacy-compliant synthetic truths to be used as drop-in placement for sensitive, raw data.
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Blog
The attacks on DeFi as a money laundering threat don’t stand up
Recent research has described Decentralised Finance (DeFI) as the “next major threat vector for money laundering.” Ben Whitby, ahead of his appearance at the FinCrime World Forum later this month, argues this accusation does not reflect reality.
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Blog
How your bank can protect a herd of elephants in Botswana’s Okavango Delta
Erik Stretz outlines what Europe’s banks must do to help fight the illicit trade of wildlife
