All Financial Intelligence articles – Page 4
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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.
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VideoMoving the Needle - Defining, measuring, and improving FinCrime effectiveness
Many key players in the FinCrime world have been seeking to define the term ‘effectiveness’. Following the lead of the global standard setters, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), most regulators have sought to assess the issue through subjective evaluations of ‘how well’ businesses meet their compliance obligations.
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VideoPutting Corruption on Notice Bill Browder in conversation with Oliver Bullough
Leading international law enforcement agencies such as Europol tell us that corruption has become one of the most vital enablers of serious organised crime and financial criminality – and a problem that touches not only so-called ‘high risk’ emerging markets, but developed societies too.
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EventFinCrime World Forum focusses on the stark reality of financial crime facing the EU, with Europol’s Burkhard Mühl
Day two of FinCrime World Forum begins with an investigation into the sheer scale and complexity of the financial crime crisis facing governments across Europe and beyond
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EventFinCrime World Forum deep-dives into diversity and inclusivity in compliance
At FinCrime World Forum today, a panel of experts explored the ways in which greater experience and broader diversity of skill-sets can bolster organizational approaches to compliance and risk management.
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EventExperts at FinCrime World Forum ask if we can improve ‘compliance culture’
Subject-matter experts came together today at FinCrime World Forum to study the key issues around ongoing cultural challenges for the financial services sector.
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WebinarThe future of AML– How Customer Intelligence is the basis of truly risk-based AML
Join Lucinity and Currencycloud as we cover innovative ways of understanding customer behavior through insights derived from KYC, transaction monitoring, screening and other data sources to create a holistic view of the customer.
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AnalysisThe key theme: building next generation fincrime partnerships
Next month’s FinCrime World Forum will feature a whole stream of panel debates on future fincrime partnerships. Here we look at some of the eye-catching partnership projects from around the globe
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AnalysisPushing the pace of RegTech adoption to fight the criminals
Next month, Dr Sian Lewin will address FinCrime World Forum on the topic of removing barriers to RegTech adoption in financial crime. Here, she talks about the benefits of technological solutions and explains why the pace of adoption needs to speed up.
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AnalysisThe key theme: Aligning RegTech to FinCrime realities
Interest is growing in the use of RegTech solutions in financial crime and this will be a major topic at FinCrime World Forum next month. Here we take a look at some of the major technologies and techniques that could be utilised as well as some of the barriers to adoption
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Analysis‘AML is the least effective anti-crime measure anywhere, ever’
Outcomes scientist Dr Ron Pol has been ruffling feathers with his strong criticism of current anti money laundering (AML) frameworks. Ahead of his appearance at FinCrime World Forum next month, he argues current thinking is not working because it has no basis in effectiveness and outcomes science.
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AnalysisIntegrating AI into AML strategic transformation
The rise of AI will provide new opportunities for visionary leaders to transform their Anti Money Laundering strategies, write Sha Ali and Sabah Hussein
