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AML challenges for 2021: 6MLD, Brexit and Covid-19

The New Year message on money laundering could hardly have been clearer. Just seven days into 2021, HM Revenue & Customs published its latestlist of businessesfined for breaches of money laundering regulations – including a record £23.8m penalty...

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What is an Effective and Reasonably Designed AML Program?

A Review of Recent and Upcoming BSA/AML Reform

It seems financial institutions are inundated these days by headlines and news related to anti-money...

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Liberty Asia Brings Anti-Slavery & Human Trafficking Expertise to QuantaVerse

As demonstrated by the recent tragic event in San Antonio, TX in which 10 immigrants perished in a sweltering trailer, the global human trafficking...

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Harnessing Machine Learning and RPA to Automate Financial Crime Investigations

Disruptive technologies are no longer the stuff of science fiction. They’re not even the “next big thing.” Successful firms are using them right now...

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The AML Community List - 2021: What will be Out and In for the Upcoming Year?

I have always enjoyed The Washington Post’s (and I am sure various other publications) list for the next year. The uniqueness is, of course, they...

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Financial Technology

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Technology Enhancements to the QuantaVerse Financial Crime Platform Extend its Lead in AML Innovation

Wayne, PA (January 5, 2021) – QuantaVerse, which uses AI and machine learning to automate financial crime identification and investigations, finished...

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Emerging Trends in Combatting Human Trafficking

In this installment of AML Voices, John Byrne, AML RightSource Executive Vice President, Sara Crowe, Strategic Initiatives Director, Financial...

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The FinCrime Files – Q&A with Rebecca Schauer Robertson, Atlantic Union Bank

In our first interview of 2021, we caught up with Rebecca “Becky” Schauer Robertson, Senior Vice President, Director Financial Investigations Unit at

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What Should You Be Looking for in a Packaged AI Solution? (Part 2)

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Implications of New AML Act on Automation: How to Comply with Confidence

On January 1, 2021, the Anti-Money Laundering Act (“AMLA”) was enacted by Congress as part of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The AML...

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AML Investigation Trends in 2021 – and Beyond

Pandemic disruption in 2020 prioritized the automation of anti-money laundering (AML) investigations for compliance teams. Risk related to...

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2020—AML Year End Review and What will 2021 Bring?

Ball of Confusion[i]

Having been in what we call the AML community for close to 35 years, it was always clear to me that a “year-in-review” is both...

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Secondary and Sectoral Sanctions: A Transformation in the Application of US Economic Sanctions

The economic sanctions administered and enforced by the US. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) are key foreign...

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The Value Proposition for Your AML/BSA Risk Assessment

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These Bibles are NOT the King James Version

How do criminals learn advanced money laundering and fraud methods? This question has many answers, but in 2020 many criminals are buying this...

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The continued shortfall in combatting trade based money laundering

Some 15 years after the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) published its first landmark report on trade-based money laundering (TBML), new research...

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FinCEN’s Updated Guidance on §314(b)

Information sharing in the BSA/AML space is a topic of ongoing discussion and such an essential tool. I wrote about the value and the challenges in a...

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The Fault In Our SARs: The importance of realignment towards actionable intelligence

The principle of a Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) is very simple – the transmission of information, typically from regulated firms, which alerts...

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The Importance of a Consistent Risk Assessment Methodology

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How can banks achieve perpetual KYC?

How close is the financial world to achievingperpetual KYC? Recent industry research has emphasised the drastic importance of improving KYC and...

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QuantaVerse Adds Automated High-Risk Entity Reviews to its Financial Crime Investigation Report (FCIR) Lineup

Financial Institutions Are Using AI-Created QuantaVerse Reportsto Streamline High-Risk Entity Reviews

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Technology Award

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QuantaVerse Tops Off 2020 Success with Notable List of Financial and Regulatory Technology Awards

QuantaVerse is Recognized by Two Coveted Industry Awards andGrabs a Spot on the Prestigious RegTech 100 List

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Episode 2 - Tuning and Optimization of Your Transaction Monitoring System

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KYC Entity Enrichment

From initial onboarding for a new business account, through to the periodic review of that entity thereafter, all banks have challenges around...

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Making Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) Useful

In this episode of AML Conversations, John Byrne, AML RightSource Executive Vice President, Chuck Taylor, AML RightSource Executive Vice President...

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