Financial Crime Compliance Resources

This first appeared in the September 2021 edition of ManchesterCF Analytics from ManchesterCF

The End of the Innocence[1]

Experts have welcomed a Financial Action Task Force report highlighting new technologies that can help fight financial crime. The task force emphasized how advances — such as customer due diligence tools, artificial...

“Incremental” is a word that is often used to describe the pace of AML/CTF reforms in Australia. The release in June 2021 of the latest Tranche 1.5 by the AUSTRAC is emblematic of the glacial pace at which reforms are...

Turning 18 is a landmark birthday – it is supposed to be the age when we emerge into the adult world, all grown up and ready to play our part. In practice, of course, most of us still have a bit of growing up to do and...

How can banks best apply technology to help with their financial crime compliance processes, particularly when the rapid advancement in the space?

Of all the environmental crimes, illegal logging (including illegal land clearing) isunderstood to be the most profitable. The illegal timber trade is said to account forup to 90%of tropical deforestation in some...

Mr. Frantz serves as a Director of Financial Crimes Advisory at AML RightSource. He has extensive experience in global BSA/AML, including suspicious activity monitoring and reporting, KYC, OFAC and sanctions screening,...

Innovative AML Team Uses Artificial Intelligence to Reduce Risk and Gain Efficiencies

Financial crime’s movement online is not a new phenomenon. Since the internet’s arrival, subsequent boom, and the remarkable increase of technological capabilities from then on, criminals have altered their tactics to...

When it comes to fighting financial misconduct, open banking has a light and a dark side. It has the potential to help fight criminals, and to be exploited by them.

Where Do We Go from Here?[i]

Building on the various themes and issues addressed the AML Act of 2020, the Treasury Department has now published the mandated AML/CFT priorities included the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) as...

More and more lives and behaviours are migrating online and into the digital sphere, from socialising and working to how finance is accessed and used. Developments in technology such as Artificial Intelligence (AI)...

“What does NFT even stand for, anyway?” Perhaps these words have resonated with you the past few months in conversations with colleagues or friends. While seemingly a throwaway joke, it echoes an unfamiliarity that many...

The decriminalization of marijuana has been gathering increased momentum in recent years, particularly in the United States. At least 35 states currently allow the use of marijuana in one way or another (recreational vs...

Criminals will infiltrate any business that will garner financial gain, or cover up their other illicit activities. We’ve already seen this throughfishing, thecattle trade, and throughshipments of gold. But while...

The rise of technology and interconnectedness across the globe has coincided with an exponential increase in data generated over the last few decades. At the enterprise level, unstructured data is currently growing 50%...

Greek myths tell the story of the Lernaean Hydra, a vicious monster with many heads. The serpentine monster was nearly impossible to kill, as its heads would regenerate when chopped off. In many ways, human slavery is...

In this edition of our FinCrime Files interview series, we caught up with James Holian who is Director of Financial Crime and Controls at theNatWest Group.

The UK has launched a new sanctions regime following Brexit, underlining the fragmented nature of the international sanctions framework

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Even by cryptocurrency standards, the level of volatility displayed in 2021 has been quite astounding. In late May, a staggeringcrash wiped out $1.21 trillionin market value across popular currencies including...

We in the financial crime prevention community are still assessing how the new Administration will address white collar crime and accompanying regulatory oversight. With the recent announcements about a new focus on tax...

“What does NFT even stand for, anyway?” Perhaps these words have resonated with you the past few months in conversations with colleagues or friends. While seemingly a throwaway josh, it echoes an unfamiliarity that many...

In this edition of our FinCrime Files interview series, we had the pleasure of catching up with Renata Hoes. Wefirst spoke to Renata in June of 2020when we she was Chief Compliance Officer at MFEX Luxembourg, and gave...