Pallavi Kapale Senior Financial Crime Officer (2LOD) at Bank of China (UK) Limited
The Payment Services Regulations (PSR) approach will bring about a significant change for all the payment firms. Its aim is to proactively prevent Authorized Push Payment (APP) fraud from occurring. In APP fraud, customers are tricked into authorizing payments to fraudsters, making it difficult for banks to detect since the transaction appears leg...
15 July 2024 /regulation /crime Banking
Fraud accounts for atleast 40% of financial crime in the UK. In 2022, UK banks have identified over 39,000 accounts demonstrating behavior indicative of money muling[1]. NCA estimated that over GBP 10 billion is laundered via money mule activity in the UK annually[2]. The global increase in fraudulent activities is a growing concern for businesses...
Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever
Over the past two decades, the banking industry has faced staggering penalties for non-compliance, totaling an astonishing $387,559,149,283 (source: Violation Tracker). This colossal sum underscores a pressing issue: despite numerous efforts, the financial sector continues to grapple with compliance, with no signs of the penalties decreasing. Ever...
08 July 2024 /regulation /crime RegTech
Kieran Holland Head of Technical Solutions at FinScan
High-quality data is the bedrock of an effective anti-money laundering (AML) and watchlist screening programme. Incomplete or inaccurate data can lead to false negatives, potentially allowing illicit activities to go unnoticed. Conversely, it can trigger false positives, leading to unnecessary investigations and resource wastage. With data volumes...
03 July 2024 /regulation /crime RegTech
Rodrigo Zepeda CEO at Storm-7 Consulting Limited
By Rodrigo Zepeda, CEO, Storm-7 Consulting INTRODUCTION In June 2024, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published feedback on good and poor quality applications under the existing cryptoasset anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorist financing (CTF) regime (Feedback) (FCA, 4 June 2024). The Feedback identified that out of 347 applicati...
28 June 2024 /crypto /crime Cryptocurrency Insights
John Bertrand MD at Tec 8 Limited
Bank Fraud was examined in clinical detail at LexisNexis ‘Trust:Live 2024 Conference. Fraud represents 49% of UK Crime. No one knows how many scammers are out there. The scale of scam messages, over 1 billion sent over the telecom networks this year, suggests a significant number of digital fraudsters. The Dedicated Card & Payment Crime Unit ...
27 June 2024 /payments /crime Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services
In June 2024, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published feedback on good and poor quality applications under the existing cryptoasset anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorist financing (CTF) regime (Feedback). This four-part blog series will aim to provide crypto firms and their compliance personnel (including Money Laundering Report...
27 June 2024 /crypto /crime Cryptocurrency Insights
Sheza Gary Project Strategiest at Self Employed
Magecart attacks refer to a common method of online fraud that have been around for almost a decade, and they continue to pose a serious threat to almost every financial organization, especially as e-commerce fraud becomes a growing concern. Security researchers say that Magecart groups have been active since at least 2016, and they are responsibl...
26 June 2024 /crime
26 June 2024 /crypto /crime Cryptocurrency Insights
In June 2024, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published feedback on good and poor quality applications under the existing cryptoasset anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorist financing (CTF) regime (Feedback). The Feedback identified that out of 347 applications from crypto firms received by the FCA since January 2020, only 47 appli...
25 June 2024 /crypto /crime Cryptocurrency Insights
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