All FinCrime Global On-demand articles – Page 6
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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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AnalysisMeasuring effectiveness: the $64,000 dollar question
How we define, measure and ultimately improve effectiveness is becoming a major topic in the world of financial crime. Ahead of her appearance at FinCrime World Forum, Gemma Rogers argues for a change in thinking in the sector.
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AnalysisThe key theme: focusing effectiveness on tackling financial crime
Regulators, government departments, private businesses and law enforcement agencies carry out a huge amount of activity every single day to combat financial crime, but how much of it is actually effective? How do we measure and improve our effectiveness? Next month’s FinCrime World Forum global live stream experience will feature several sessions on this topics. To get you in the mood, Matthew Redhead explains the key issues and argues for a systemic approach
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VideoDue Diligence in the Age of Digital ID. A Revolution in Anti-Financial Crime?
Knowing and trusting who customers are is the primary responsibility of due diligence.
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VideoTechnological Promises, Criminal Realities. A conversation between Julian Dixon and Oliver Bullough
In the past decade, the ‘Regulatory Technology’ sector, or ‘RegTech’, has developed quickly in response to the need to manage existing financial crime risks better, enabled by the growing capacity and capability of evolving technologies themselves.
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VideoThe transparency illusion- UK companies and the Beirut Explosion
The explosion in Beirut was allegedly the largest non-nuclear explosion in history. But it has since emerged that the cause of the explosion was Ammonium Nitrate owned by a dormant UK company.
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VideoCase Study: The Role of Digital Behavior in Identifying Mule Accounts
Money mules have become a modern day gold rush for cybercriminals.
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VideoTransforming Compliance into Risk Management. A presentation by Michael Rasmussen
Regulators consistently talk about the need for a ‘risk-based approach’ to financial crime, and many organisations have created ‘risk management’ functions to complement, and in some cases replace, legacy compliance functions. This shift is based on a recognition that it is not just what you do, it is how you do it that matters. Financial criminals are agile and reflexive, and those that seek to stop them need to be so in response.
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VideoEffective Financial Crime Risk Management. How do we evidence what we are doing in AFC is actually effective?
We have started to see a shift in the AFC community, as the pressure from regulators for firms to achieve good outcomes in financial crime prevention increases. There is likely to be greater focus on how outcomes are measured and how confident firms are that their controls are effective at tackling financial crime.
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VideoKeynote: ‘Everyone Is Doing Badly’: AML After 30 Years - A Conversation with David Lewis, Executive Secretary of FATF
In 1989, the Group of Seven leading industrialised nations formed the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to create international standards in Anti-Money Laundering (AML).
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VideoThe Fraud Pandemic Predicting the next wave. A presentation by Onfido.
In the last twelve months, the world has faced two pandemics. In the wake of Covid-19 has come a significant increase in digital fraud. Although much of that fraud has continued via what we now see as ‘traditional’ routes - such as phone, text and email - it has spread into the wider digital spaces of the internet, encouraged by social restrictions that force so many of us to live our lives largely online. But, is this change here to stay? Or will the landscape return to normal as vaccines roll out worldwide.
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VideoSpotlight: Modern Slavery. A Conversation with Andrew Wallis OBE, CEO of Unseen
Many of us living in developed economies have liked to believe that slavery is a thing of the past. But we are coming to understand that it remains a very modern reality; one that blights the lives of 40 million men, women and children across the globe and creates criminal profits only rivalled by counterfeit goods and illegal narcotics. Shockingly, human misery is once again one of the biggest of global businesses.
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VideoThe 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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VideoStriking 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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VideoThe 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“Off-Grid Workflow” for AML and CLM
It is extremely rare to find an organisation at can claim that its CLM and AML processes have become more efficient and cost-effective over the last ten years.
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VideoDeFi Technologies will change banking forever - Decentralised Finance and New Frontiers for Blockchain
In the minds of many, blockchain technology – the use of encrypted blocks of data to create a shared ledger of activity – is synonymous with cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin.
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VideoCryptocurrencies: Dispelling the Myths
The world of cryptocurrencies can be a disorienting place. Now, we are seeing one of the periodic booms in the value of Bitcoin and its sister currencies, with businesses and some governments exploring the possibility of launching their own versions, while others warn of the financial crime risks that crypto brings.
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VideoBlock… Change? Blockchain and the transformation of compliance
The financial services industry has spent the last decade warily eying Blockchain technology as a challenger to conventional ways of ‘doing money’ and as a potential risk to pre-existing regulatory norms.
