All Financial Intelligence articles – Page 6
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VideoSharing Experience Across Industries
A panel of speakers present and then discuss both the specific issues related to their three different sectors – fintech; investment management and cryptocurrency - and also those challenges they have in common.
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VideoAfter the US Election
The result of the presidential election will have a huge effect on the international approach to targeting and tackling financial crime over the coming years.
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VideoThe FinCrime Team of the Future
Compliance today is not a 9 – 5 job. FinCrime teams can no longer simply get away with knowing what the regulations are and following what’s required of them.
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VideoFighting Financial Crime in a Changed World
UK Finance reports that “economic crime costs the UK nearly £7 billion a year” with this figure expected to rise as fraudsters continue to use the coronavirus pandemic as an opportunity to exploit both businesses and consumers alike, with sophisticated COVID-19 and lockdown themed scams.
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VideoFinCrime Futures- The EU and Brexit
The uncertainty surrounding the implications of Brexit and the future relationship between EU and UK is writ large in the field of financial crime compliance this year.
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VideoA Conversation with Payson Johnston and Anton Zdziebczok
We talk to Payson Johnston, CEO & co-founder of Crowdz, a FinTech company based in Silicon Valley, focused on revolutionising invoice financing for SMEs and helping businesses get paid faster.
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VideoA Step into The Regulatory Unknown
Almost two decades on from the al Qaeda terrorist attacks (9/11) the Financial War on Terrorism continues to gather pace following the introduction of a series of international counter-terrorism financing legislative provisions
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NewsCrypto analytics firm CipherTrace files patents for technology to trace privacy coin Monero
Cryptocurrency risk intelligence and analytics firm CipherTrace has filed two patents for technology to trace transactions for privacy coin Monero (XMR).
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BlogMore money laundering and more SARs – the potential impact of Germany’s new AML law
A proposed new law in Germany would have a drastic impact on the volumes of transactions punishable as money laundering. Compliance teams will need to be on the ball, explains Andrew Northage
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NewsFATF president pledges to support digital transformation of AML/CFT systems
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) will seek to support the building of greater efficiency and resilience in anti-money laundering systems through digital transformation, its president has announced.
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AnalysisTrust, privacy and combatting crime: the tech behind Singapore’s facial recognition ID scheme
Singapore is to become the first government in the world to grant citizens access to services online using facial verification and UK-based provider iProov has won the contract. FinCrime Report speaks to the firm’s founder Andrew Bud about the technology and issues of privacy, anti-money laundering, security and trust.
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NewsFinCEN publishes new typologies to help firms detect money laundering linked to human trafficking
The US Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has published new information on typologies and indicators to help compliance teams combat the “horrific toll” of human trafficking.
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Q&AFinCrime Job Focus: Matthew Redhead, researcher and writer
In our latest reader-submitted Q&A Matthew Redhead explains how financial crime can get the emotional juices flowing
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FeatureThe skills needed in the FinCrime team of the future
Becky Marriott’s financial crime fighting journey to date includes working on security in warzones, threat intelligence at the 2012 Olympics, tracing global sanction evasion networks and investigating ISIS. Now at digital banking services provider Tide, Marriott discusses the skills needed to equip the financial crime teams of the future.
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NewsAUSTRAC investigates PayPal as AML compliance clampdown continues
Australian enforcement agency AUSTRAC has ordered the appointment of an external auditor to probe anti-money laundering compliance concerns at PayPal.
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AnalysisSARs and the FinCEN Files – did disclosure rules play a part?
The FinCEN Files have shocked many across the world. The leaked documents show banks moved more than $2 trillion between 1999 and 2017 in payments even though they believed them to be suspicious. So how was this allowed to happen?
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NewsPakistan signs AML deal with UAE as it seeks to avoid FATF blacklist
Pakistan has signed an agreement with the United Arab Emirates to combat money laundering and terror financing as it seeks to avoid being blacklisted by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).
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BlogLocating mule accounts and identifying fraudsters with behavioural biometrics
Behavioural biometrics can not only help identify fraud, it can cut it off at its root, argues Tim Ayling