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Barley Laing

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Barley's role is focused on ensuring clients meet their customer onboarding, data quality and compliance needs; including their ID, Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Know Your Customer (KYC) requirements. He and his team at Melissa work with the likes of Bank of America, Creditsafe and MetaBank.

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Five ways to ensure compliance with stricter global fraud prevention regulations

Nasdaq’s 2024 Global Financial Crime Report highlights $3.1 trillion of illicit funds flowing through the global financial system. As a result, financial crime and fraud prevention regulations are being tightened up globally. In the UK, for example, a new ‘Failure to Prevent Fraud’ criminal offence will be enforced from September, as part of the Ec...

04 June 2025 Data Management and Governance

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Spring clean customer databases to deliver growth in uncertain times

2025 is proving to be a challenging time for financial institutions looking to drive revenue. Organisations from the Bank of England to the IMF have been predicting a year of slow economic growth in the UK for the remainder of 2025, and now there’s uncertainty on tariffs which could have a significant negative impact on economies globally. In this...

25 April 2025 Data Management and Governance

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Seven ways to tackle bad data and drive business performance

Bad customer data – databases where customer data is inaccurate, incomplete and inconsistent – causes huge issues for financial institutions. Accurate customer data informs effective customer communications and personalisation. Without it, communications quickly become ineffective, even detrimental to the customer experience, damaging brand reputat...

04 April 2025 Data Management and Governance

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