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The ambiguous picture of money laundering in UK real estate

An ongoing minefield for financial crime in the UK has been the property market. Whether this includes cheaper for-rent businesses and accommodations nationwide (with university digs being a matter of great concern recently), or high-end properties...

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How to Gather Data for Your OFAC Risk Assessment

In this installment of AML Voices, Chuck Taylor, Head of Financial Crimes Advisory and Tim White, Director of Sanctions at AML RightSource are joined...

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How technology could help banks beat the 6AMLD deadline

Six months and counting. The European Union’sSixth Anti-Money Laundering Directivecomes into effect across its member states on 3 December 2020;...

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Examinations During the Pandemic

No Deja Vu[1]

Examiners will consider the unique, evolving, and potentially long-term nature of the issues confronting institutions and exercise...

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Momenta Group further safeguards banks’ KYC with Arachnys partnership

KYC, CDD and KYC refresh given a major boost in efficiency through digitising KYC and investigative processes.

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Filling in the ‘grey area’: the future for UBO registers

The release ofultimate beneficial owner (UBO) registershas become mandatory in the EU following the 5th Anti-Money Laundering Directive (5AMLD),...

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QuantaVerse Offers AI-Powered Country Code Derivation to Enable Financial Institutions to Experience the Potential of Automated Entity Resolution

Jurisdiction identification, one capability of the QuantaVerse Pre-TMS Entity Resolution & Risk Scoring solution, is now available as a standalone...

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Money Laundering in the Art World: The Modern Day Heist

The Italian Renaissance saw the birth of an elite group of patrons revered for their intellect and dedication to the world of art. This group became...

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Inside reputational & strategic risk investigations: Q&A with Laura Hamilton, Falanx Assynt

In our continuing series of interviews, we caught up with Laura Hamilton, Senior Analyst, Business & Strategic Intelligence atFalanx Assynt, who...

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Can’t You Hear Me Knocking?

I have a comment…[1]

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Investigations – they all start with context

This post is part of our occasional series on AML program fundamentals which focuses on refreshing foundational knowledge for experienced members of...

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Standard Chartered joins forces with Arachnys to boost global AML strategy

Arachnys platform augments Standard Chartered’s global AML monitoring strategy, with a focus on counterparty review and investigations.

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Planning for a New AML/Anti-Fraud/Sanctions Automation System

This post is the next installment in Tim White's discussion about managing the migration from one AML transaction monitoring system to another. The...

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The FinCrime Files – Q&A with Francisco Mainez, Head of Business Financial Crime, Risk Data & Analytics, HSBC

In our continuing series of theFinCrime Files, we caught up with Francisco Mainez, Head of Business Financial Crime Risk Data and Analytics, Retail...

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Marijuana due diligence: retrospectives, reviews and predictions

Marijuana legalisation is a burgeoning topic for, not just the financial services domain, but wider society as a whole. Not many other industries...

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Why Russia still needs tighter AML procedures

A range of scandals and investigations have highlighted the pressing need for tighter anti-money laundering (AML) procedures in Russian banks,...

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The FinCrime Files – Q&A with Renata Hoes, Chief Compliance Officer at MFEX Luxembourg

Hi Renata, can you describe your role and a little of your career background?

Currently the Chief Compliance Officer, MLRO and Data Protection...

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Webinar Replay: AML Data Challenges & Perspectives with Dev Odedra

  • In our latest webinar, we interview AML expert Dev Odedra on pertinent issues that resulted from our AML/KYC Data Survey, in regards to anti-money...

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Information Sharing – the Value and the Challenges

Information Sources

Financial service companies (FIs) have a wide variety of information about their customers. Some of it is personal data, gathered...

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Covid-19, illegal wildlife trafficking and money laundering

The illegal wildlife trade may have been perceived as a relatively low-risk avenue of illicit funds by criminal organisations, but never has the...

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The FinCrime Files – Q&A with András Bácsfalvi, Chief Compliance Officer at MKB Bank

In the latest of our FinCrime Files interviews, we caught up with András Bácsfalvi, Chief Compliance Officer atMKB Bank. He discusses his view on...

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Employee Spotlight: Arlene Eley

We are very excited to highlight a staff member each month from our team of superb employees.

AML RightSource May Employee Spotlight: meet Arlene...

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Sometimes Things Need a Fix: AML Look-backs and Remediation Projects

What are the root causes leading to a look-back or remediation project? What are the challenges of a look-back or remediation? How do you create a...

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The long road to achieving true perpetual KYC

  • In recent years there has been a lot of talk about perpetual (or continuous) KYC. It is a term used to indicate the industry objective of moving...

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What does the future hold for AML and KYC data?

  • “There are some decades where nothing happens, and some weeks where decades happen” – Vladimir Il’yich Ulyanov (Lenin)

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