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Increasing Collaboration and Partnerships

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The Proactive Blockchain Industry

Technology Will Not Save Us―Rethinking Risk Might

AMLA: The Gamechanger

Surviving and Thriving in Uncertain Times

Compliance

Compliance, March - May 2021

AMLA: The Gamechanger

March 30, 2021March 30, 2021 /Leave a comment
The Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 (AMLA)―included within the 4,517-page-long conference report on the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (NDAA)1―is widely considered the most comprehensive change to the U.S. anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CTF) regime since the USA PATRIOT Act...
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Compliance, March - May 2021

Surviving and Thriving in Uncertain Times

March 30, 2021April 6, 2021 /Leave a comment
Even during the best of times, anti-money laundering (AML) professionals are under great stress and strain from constantly changing regulatory and tactical environments. As criminals rapidly change tactics and technology inevitably lags, the AML profession must constantly improvise, adjust and overcome a plethora of obstacles....
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Compliance, Exclusive

Seven Expected Changes in AML After COVID-19

March 8, 2021April 13, 2021 /Leave a comment
The impact of COVID-19 can be witnessed in almost every industry. However, with global banks having provisioned a whopping $1.15 trillion for losses through the third quarter of 2020, it is quite visible for banks and financial institutions (FIs).1 Risks associated with terrorist financing and...
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Proliferation Sanctions
Compliance, Exclusive

A Risk-Based Approach to a Rule-Based Standard: FATF’s Updated Recommendations on Proliferation Sanctions

January 12, 2021 /Leave a comment
The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction continues to be a dynamic feature of the global foreign policy landscape, particularly with the polarized position of major players regarding states such as Iran. Undoubtedly, this impacts the ways the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) standards...
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Compliance, December 2020 - February 2021

Multilateral Development Institutions and Global Financial Crime Risk Management

December 22, 2020December 23, 2020 /Leave a comment
There is a growing consensus among financial crime compliance stakeholders that the current global framework for anti-financial crime (AFC) is not as effective as it could be. There needs to be more action from the international, regional and national levels to help identify and...
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Compliance, December 2020 - February 2021

Project Shadow: AML Investigations Into Online Child Sexual Exploitation

December 22, 2020March 9, 2021 /Leave a comment
Project Shadow is a public-private partnership designed to combat online child sexual exploitation in all its forms by enhancing methods to detect, report and disrupt associated financial transactions suspected of being connected to money laundering in any and all of its stages (placement, layering and...
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Compliance, Exclusive

The Million Dollar Typo: Breaking Down Why Banks Spend on Ineffective Screening Programs

November 9, 2020November 9, 2020 /Leave a comment
Recent reports shine a glaring light on the urgent need for new solutions that can help compliance teams more effectively identify and mitigate real risks at the same pace of doing business. Despite this ever-present need, banks spend an inordinate amount of time and...
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Compliance, Special for the Web

Beyond the Five Pillars: Taking a Holistic Approach to AML

October 30, 2020October 30, 2020 /Leave a comment
In an effort to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of anti-money laundering (AML) programs, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) announced in September that it was soliciting comments regarding potential regulatory amendments to the Bank Secrecy Act. This development is a welcome opportunity to improve...
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Compliance, Special for the Web

Smith and Ricardo: Classical Economists and the Origins of TBML

October 23, 2020November 3, 2020 /Leave a comment
Economics has been labeled a “dismal” science for a variety of reasons, so it should not be surprising that an economist would take advantage of the current pandemic stay-at-home orders to read what some would consider dreary works: Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations...
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Compliance, Exclusive

Evaluating the Risk-Based Approach

October 22, 2020 /Leave a comment
The risk-based approach (RBA) is an essential component to implementing the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) Recommendations effectively. Financial institutions (FIs) are expected to identify, assess and understand the money laundering and terrorist financing risks to which they are exposed and take anti-money laundering/counter-terrorist financing...
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