All Financial Intelligence articles – Page 3
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VideoRegulator Rhetoric, Tech Realities
A discussion of how well regulators are actually doing - beyond the rhethoric - in terms of supporting and promoting regtech solutions, and how the private sector would engage with regulators on the topic.
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VideoAssessing the RegTech Impact
Discussion of how regtech has so far impacted on the development of anti-financial crime, and whether it has improved efficiency or effectiveness more.
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VideoPutting it to the Test
Exploration of how AFC platform testing is shifting from internally driven mechanisms such as back testing to the use of synthetic data and automatic penetration testing.
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NewsDay two of FinCrime Global delves into RegTech’s role in the fight against financial crime
FinCrime Global second day brought more global experts together to discuss the key themes defining the financial crime landscape today.
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VideoThe financialization of Big Tech and its effect on Financial Crime
A presentation on the role social media is playing in the current fraud epidemic and how to combat it.
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VideoKnowledge is Power
To address increased regulatory pressure and recent money-laundering scandals, the private sector could benefit from a fundamentally different way of managing know-your-customer-anti–money laundering (KYC–AML) compliance.
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VideoHow is the approach to fincrime strategy changing as organisations embrace technology?
Robert Bateman, analyst and research director at GRC World Forums discusses with Laura Hutton Co-founder and Chief Customer Officer at Quantex, how the approach to fincrime strategy is changing as organisations embrace technology.
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NewsNew partnership to strengthen FinTech and Digital Security in MENA region
A new partnership has been struck between the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) Tel Aviv-based not-for-profit organisation, Start-Up Nation Central, which will promote commercial agreements to benefit both nations, specifically in the fields of FinTech and Digital Security.
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NewsNew operation to protect next generation EU recovery funds
Launched at Europol, Operation Sentinel will contribute to a concerted response to an expected fraud wave.
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NewsFCA warns of hybrid working practices
The UK’s financial regulator, The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has released a new guidance on remote or hybrid working expectations for firms.
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WebinarTackling 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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NewsFinCEN has turned its attention to crypto
The U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network ( FinCEN ) has identified cryptocurrencies as one of the anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism ( AML / CFT ) priorities.
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VideoCrypto 2.0 – New ways of performing old tricks? Exploring Crypto Typologies with Nick Furneaux
Any sufficiently new technology can seem like magic to the uninitiated, and it can become easy to assume that its abuse by criminals is equally magical and just as perplexing. It can also become a natural next step to assume that there is a particular type of ‘crime’ inherent to the new technology in question.
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VideoThe Real Ingredients of Virtual Compliance ‘Baking-in’ FinCrime good practice from the start
For entrepreneurs in any space there is often a desire to do things ‘differently’. Indeed, that is a prime motivation: to deliver a new product to customers. It can be tempting to focus on getting this right, providing a high-quality customer experience, and stimulating growth, to the exclusion of other concerns. Although compliance, regulation and risk management do not get ignored, they can slip down the list of priorities.
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VideoThe Key to FinCrime? Encryption, Privacy Enhancing Technologies and the data-sharing challenge
A common refrain amongst FinCrime professionals is that it would be easier to take on the criminals if they were more readily able to share sensitive information between organisations.
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VideoFighting Kleptopia - A conversation with Tom Burgis, author of ‘Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World’
Even a decade ago, the emergence of kleptocracy – a political system where leaders use their positions of power to enrich themselves – was seen by those living in ‘developed’ states as being a marginal risk that affected only poor or undemocratic societies.
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VideoBiden’s Radical Agenda? Jim Richards on the Implications for the Fight Against FinCrime
The Biden Presidency – less than six months old – has been a surprise to many who expected that the vicissitudes of the past four years and the challenges of the pandemic would lead to a period of stability over change. Instead, President Biden seems to have decided to take a different approach, pushing forward with far-reaching economic policies such as the extensive COVID-19 relief act. As some have suggested, if Biden campaigned as a moderate, he appears eager to govern as a radical.
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VideoUnited We Stand The potential for integrated FinCrime teams and controls
The problem of fragmentation affects the world of FinCrime in many ways. Within compliance and risk management functions, the past isolation of AML, fraud and sanctions teams has led to key risks falling between the institutional gaps – a problem exacerbated when the teams use different platforms and data streams.
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VideoBeyond the Banking Bubble Leveraging technology lessons from other industries
In the last few years, financial services providers and Regulatory Technology (RegTech) firms have talked a great deal about the deployment of new data-driven technologies, usually with a focus on automation and supervised machine learning to core compliance tasks such as sanctions screening and transaction monitoring.
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VideoAbove the Law? The challenge of bringing financial criminals to justice
The social restrictions of the COVID-19 pandemic have been a major impediment to financial criminals, who rely on easy access to the financial system to move dirty money.