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News/ai
Bleckwen, a provider of AI-based real-time analytics software for payments fraud detection and prevention, has emerged from stealth with a $10 million funding round led by Ring Capital and TempoCap.
26 June 2019
News/Money Laundering
Regulators, politicians and other crypto players have all responded to yesterday's unveiling of Facebook's Libra project and suggested that the social media giant's digital currency plans may face several challenges.
19 June 2019
Social media platform Facebook has unveiled further details of its much-anticipated digital currency offering, which it hopes will transform financial services.
18 June 2019
ABN Amro's Digital Impact Fund has taken an undisclosed stake in Israeli Big Data analytics firm Thetaray.
12 June 2019
HSBC is working with Canadian artificial intelligence firm Element AI to help analyse data from clients of its Global Banking and Markets (GMB) unit.
10 June 2019
Swift's Latin American Regional Conference (LARC) explored how banks in the region are looking to increase digitisation, while managing cyber and compliance challenges.
29 May 2019
German app-only bank N26 has been reprimanded by regulatory body BaFin for lax anti-money laundering controls.
22 May 2019
Welcome to Finextra's live coverage of the Swift Latin American Regional Conference 2019, in Panama City. This event will focus on important issues affecting the financial industry in the region, and how the financial community can accelerate digital transformation.
21 May 2019
Fenergo has begun work with Bahrain’s Electronic Network for Financial Transactions (Benefit) to design and implement a national Know Your Customer (KYC) utility that incorporates blockchain technology.
01 May 2019
News/security
Swedbank has put its head of Group IT, Anders Ekedahl, in charge of a new dedicated anti-financial crime (AFC) unit set up in response to a money laundering scandal being probed by regulators.
25 April 2019
In conversation with Finextra Research, Arkwright’s Frank Wunderlich and Signicat’s John Erik Setsaas discuss their new report which highlights how the Nordic region can now act as a blueprint for digital identity success and how banks are crucial for this positive result.
09 April 2019
Russian authorities are promoting the international use of an alternative financial messaging system to the global Swift network in order to mitigate the risk of sanctions.
22 March 2019
News/regulation
Interbank messaging network Swift is to open its KYC Registry to corporates, providing a central hub for document exchange with multiple banking partners and eliminating duplication and ineffeciency.
12 February 2019
UK financial institutions and payment processors should collaborate on the creation of a national digital identity scheme to face down the threat posed by money laundering and payments-related financial crime, according to a new report published by the Emerging Payments Association (EPA).
31 January 2019
Anti-financial crime AI platform Mimiro has raised $30 million in a Series B funding round led by Index Ventures.
30 January 2019
The Dutch central bank and financial services regulator say that the country must introduce a licensing regime for crypto exchanges and wallet providers in order to tackle money laundering and terrorist financing.
21 January 2019
The European Banking Authority is calling on the EU to look into whether there should be a block-wide regulatory approach to crypto-assets.
10 January 2019
Regulatory authorities and banks in Abu Dhabi have recorded tangible benefits from trials of a shared Know Your Customer utility underpinned by distributed ledger technology.
05 December 2018
Invest Cyprus, the country’s national investment partner, has signed an MoU with public blockchain service creator VeChain Foundation and blockchain project strategy advisory Cream to introduce DLT in Cyprus.
02 November 2018
PwC is bolstering its regulatory compliance business with the acquisition of anti-money laundering and sanctions screening tool KYC-Pro from Irish consultancy FSCom.
01 October 2018
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