567 Results from /crime
John Bertrand MD at Tec 8 Limited
People, who think they are being defrauded, will soon be able to call 159, a new initiative against fraud, supported by a number of banks, telecom and social media firms. The goal would be for 159 to immediately direct the call to the Payer Bank for fraud assessment. Approximately half of the current bank accounts will be covered by this service i...
04 October 2021 /payments /crime Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Retired Member
The disruption and uncertainty created by COVID-19 has slowed business execution across all aspects of businesses. Anti-financial crime and compliance functions are no exception. However, the challenges and pressures of fighting money laundering and other financial crimes have not eased. Instead, the current environment is making the need to drive...
30 September 2021 /crime /covid-19 Financial Services Regulation
Steve Dourdil Business Development at Kerv Collaborate
It seems hard to believe that it was only 10 years ago that the FSA, as it was known back then, removed the mobile phone taping exemption from the call recording rules introduced in March 2009 with COBS 11.8. The initial legislation, designed primarily to tackle market abuse, required capital markets participants to capture and retain all relevant
30 September 2021 /regulation /crime Financial Risk Management
Roy Prayikulam SVP Risk & Fraud Division at INFORM GmbH
For years, financial institutions have been using automated monitoring procedures to make their processes for detecting money laundering and terrorist financing as effective and efficient as possible. However, many of the solutions used still leave much to be desired in terms of effectiveness and efficiency. Silo architectures, a lack of cross-dep...
29 September 2021 /regulation /crime Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services
Simon Gilbert Founder at Elmore
Think of an athlete attempting to beat a ‘personal best’, or someone scaling a mountain. Both are individual challenges. In the business world, we’re now used to hearing about another type of challenge, or more accurately, ‘challengers’. Namely, disruptive start-ups who are turning traditional business models on their heads and taking on industry ...
27 September 2021 /regulation /crime FintechInsuranceMatters
It’s been reported recently that £4m is stolen every day by fraudsters in the UK. That’s a lot of money even by today’s highly inflated standards. Isn’t it time to ask the difficult question - are banks part of the problem? Like the rest of us todays’ criminals/ fraudsters, don’t like cash – it’s not safe. They might get robbed! They want their mo...
24 September 2021 /payments /crime Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030
Midsized financial institutions must pay close attention to anti-money laundering Midsized financial institutions (with $1 billion - $10 billion in assets) play an essential role in our financial system, especially in the U.S. where banks with less than $10 billion in assets represent 14% of the market and 97% of the total number of banks. Unfortu...
22 September 2021 /regulation /crime Trends in Financial Services
Michael Ault CEO at UTP Group
Though it might have been hoped a decade ago that technological advances by the 2020s would have all but wiped out the threat of fraud, this is not the case. Fraud isn’t just on the rise; it’s reaching levels not seen before. Indeed, 2020 holds the record for being the worst year to date for breaches with over 36 billion data records compromised. ...
16 September 2021 /payments /crime Exposing Financial Crime
Garima Chaudhary Global Head of Solution Eng, FinCrime & Compliance at Oracle
The current financial crime compliance management efforts are based on a combination of automated but static analysis of a pre-determined set of risk factors, together with human judgement. Legacy systems are updated with new algorithms and manually inputted information, generating matrixes for risk interpretation and action, but these very rarely...
08 September 2021 /regulation /crime Innovation in Financial Services
Alex Ford President, North America and Chief Revenue Officer at Encompass | RegTech Association | Women in RegTech
Perpetual KYC or pKYC is an emerging concept in financial crime compliance. It has generated great interest and accelerated digital-first approaches because of the cost and risk benefits on offer if firms can maintain KYC profiles dynamically as new information becomes available. Today KYC is typically undertaken on 1, 3, and 5 year cycles which c...
02 September 2021 /regulation /crime Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
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