All AML articles – Page 3
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Aegis Capital, compliance officers resolve cases with FINRA, SEC
Aegis Capital must pay a $550K fine to the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, and a $750K penalty to the SEC for failing to have adequate supervisory and anti-money laundering programs in place. Two Aegis CCOs were found to have aided and abetted the violations.
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IdentityMind Global creates business unit dedicated to ICO, cryptocurrency markets
IdentityMindGlobal—a SaaS platform provider that builds, maintains and analyzes digital identities worldwide—announced the launch of a new business unit specifically dedicated to providing know your customer and anti-money laundering solutions to address the regulatory and compliance requirements of the rapidly growing Initial Coin Offering and cryptocurrency markets.
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Preventing money laundering in law firms
Strict new anti-money laundering regulations will make compliance matters much more complicated for U.K. solicitors whose business makes them a target for money laundering operations.
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What has Latvia wrought?
U.S. banking regulators have long understood the connection between bribery, corruption, money laundering. and security. It will be interesting to see if the ECB and European countries are willing to become as aggressive as their U.S. counter-parts in fighting the global scourge of money laundering.
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Big money fines emphasize focus on AML compliance
Speculation that anti-money laundering fines might shrink in the current political climate were proven very wrong in recent days.
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ArticleData sharing, AI may be antidote to failing AML efforts
Big data may revolutionize anti-money laundering efforts, but privacy concerns and preserving a human element to compliance programs may get in the way.
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Swiss regulator: J.P. Morgan seriously breached AML regulations
The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority, FINMA, concluded its enforcement proceedings against J.P. Morgan Chase, saying the bank "seriously breached" anti-money laundering regulations by failing to screen adequately transactions and business relationships booked in Switzerland associated with the Malaysian sovereign wealth fund 1MDB.
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The (anti) corruption London bus tour
A London bus tour that features the proceeds of corruption, exploring properties alleged to have been purchased with monies purloined from the country of Nigeria by the country’s former oil minister, the disgraced and now arrested, Diezani Alison-Madueke.
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New technology brings opportunities, and headaches, for CCOS
New technologies are poised to revolutionize compliance and risk management. But are CCOs and CROs ready and up to the challenge?
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Delta Capita launches Big Data as a Service Platform for data analytics and machine learning
Delta Capita, an independent consulting firm dedicated to the financial services industry, has launched its new Big Data-as-a-Service Platform, Delta>Data, offering clients a set of flexible solutions to both industry-wide and client-specific issues.
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LexisNexis Risk Solutions’ Chrisol Correia on AML, the convergence of risk intelligence
The leader of LexisNexis Risk Solutions' global anti-money laundering solutions strategy discusses trends in AML, risk management technology, and the evolution of FinTech compliance.
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‘Lone wolf’ terror attacks pose a challenge for financial detectives
Following 9/11, laws and compliance rules were leveraged to “follow the money” and disrupt terror plots. But can those efforts intercept “lone wolf” attacks?
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Basel AML index: countries still fall—sometimes severely—short
The annual Basel Anti-Money Laundering Index, a ranking of 146 countries regarding money laundering risks, is out. The findings show that plenty of work on the issue remains to be done.
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FCPA, CEOs and risk assessments
Ian Narev, chief executive officer of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, may soon join the ranks of those CEOs who depart once a corruption scandal goes public.
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OFAC red cards Mexican footballer Marquez
A prominent Mexican football star finds himself on OFAC's black list for allegedly fronting for a known drug kingpin. Just when you thought soccer couldn't get any more dramatic.
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Biometrics, cash, and the end of money laundering as we know it?
As the technology to facilitate cashless transactions becomes more widespread, it can play an important role in know-your-customer and anti-money laundering efforts.
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Artifacts and artwork can collect trouble
Craft supply giant Hobby Lobby is in hot water for illegally importing historical artifacts. Other collections, including artwork, can also be a big problem for unsuspecting firms.
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Your business is being sold; what is your compliance response?
Tom Fox takes a closer look at the continuing saga of the 1 MDB scandal involving the Malaysian sovereign wealth fund and the need to have robust corporate compliance around all parties.
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A new chapter in anti-corruption enforcement?
Jorge Luis Arzuaga, a former managing director at the Swiss bank Julius Baer, pled guilty to having arranged the transfers of more than $25 million in bribes for corrupt FIFA officials. This is the first guilty plea in the plethora of service provides who facilitated the massive corruption scandal engaged ...
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SEC slams CCO for anti-money laundering violations
The SEC has once again punished a CCO for neglecting their duties and ignoring red flags at a firm under investigation for suspect activities. Failing to file suspicious activity reports was at the root of the problem.