All KYC articles – Page 3
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ArticleStudy: Financial crime compliance costs top $42B in U.S./Canada
A new study of financial crime compliance costs found spending by American and Canadian financial institutions is up sharply in 2020, driven in part by the coronavirus pandemic.
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ArticleBest practices KYC: What to do when your client is in the headlines
How do we, as AML professionals, assess negative media alerts? It should start with a conversation with the client relationship manager, but it shouldn’t end there, writes Martin Woods.
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ArticleCommon-sense KYC: Customers should supply the knowledge
No one knows a customer better than the customer. As such, financial crime expert Martin Woods believes the onus should be on the customer to provide the required data to keep KYC logs up to date.
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ArticleFirms must apply contact tracing rules to bank relationships
In order to prevent debacles like the one Deutsche Bank is embroiled in, there is a need to combine the processes of “know your employee” and “know your customer,” writes Martin Woods.
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ArticleNothing more important than knowing your risk exposure
In performing due diligence on your supply chain partners, do not be intimidated into accepting no for an answer. Being blind to potential risks is bound to get you into trouble, writes financial crime expert Martin Woods.
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ArticleWhat regulators want to know about KYC technology
So, your company has decided to embark on an update of its legacy Know Your Customer system. Hear from experts on how to begin the process of onboarding that tech to the regulators.
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ArticleDeutsche Bank rightly paying the price for looking the other way on Epstein
In terms of Know Your Customer, Deutsche Bank knew what it had with Jeffrey Epstein. It just didn’t care enough to do anything about it.
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ArticleAnalysis: Following the telephone trail to detect fraudsters
One way to thwart money launderers is to take a page from the government’s playbook and examine smartphone applications when the contamination of fraud or money laundering is discovered.
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ArticleFCA fines Commerzbank London $47.4M for AML failures
Commerzbank London will pay a £37.8 million (U.S. $47.4 million) penalty in a settlement with the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority for anti-money laundering systems and controls failures.
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ArticleReport: AI tools carry many benefits, some risks for securities industry
A study on the use of artificial intelligence in the securities industry by FINRA found a number of challenges with the technology—data bias, customer privacy, and cyber-security among them—but noted it can offer “significant benefits.”
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ArticleCompliance lessons from Julius Baer’s ‘serious AML failings’
Compliance officers can learn a lot from the anti-money laundering compliance shortcomings at Julius Baer Group, as well as from what the bank is now doing to enhance its risk management and AML compliance controls.
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ArticleSix strategies for FinTech adoption in banking
Thomas Wan of the International Compliance Training Academy outlines strategies for navigating the dynamic terrain of FinTech adoption within the banking industry.
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ArticleFive ‘essential components’ of a sanctions compliance program
Chief compliance officers got some much-needed guidance on how to build a well-crafted sanctions compliance program thanks to the recent OFAC framework.
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SWIFT to open KYC platform to corporates
SWIFT announced the scheduled opening of its Know Your Customer platform, The KYC Registry, to corporates.
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Opus launches new KYC solution
Global compliance and risk management solutions provider Opus announced the launch its new know your customer (KYC) workflow automation and risk intelligence solution.
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BlogA thumbs up for smaller banks sharing BSA AML resources
Federal bank regulators have announced that certain community banks and credit unions may share resources in an effort to bolster Bank Secrecy Act compliance and anti-money laundering obligations.
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Report: Financial firms fined $26B for AML, sanctions, KYC non-compliance since 2008
A staggering $26 billion in fines has been imposed for non-compliance with Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Know Your Customer (KYC), and sanctions regulations in the last decade, according to new research.
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With compliance creeping up fast, FinCEN guidance complicates its new rule
By May 11, banks and others in the financial services industry will need to comply with new customer due diligence rules. Recent guidance, banks say, both helped and complicated late-stage compliance efforts.
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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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Know Your Customer vs. Know Your Intermediary
While most companies are familiar with KYC programs, they might not have knowledge of “Know Your Intermediary.” Inside are five steps for getting to know your intermediaries.
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